Book Tree

Posted on November 19, 2013 by fsdthreshold

Advent is coming right up! Take a look at this photo:

Christmas tree made of books: I don't own the rights to this photo. Thanks are due to my college friend Cindy O. for finding it on-line. If it's yours and you object to my using it here, please just let me know, and I'll take it down. To whomever made this tree: thank you, and three cheers! This is a fantastic tree!

Christmas tree made of books: I don’t own the rights to this photo. Thanks are due to my college friend Cindy O. for finding it on-line. If it’s yours and you object to my using it here, please just let me know, and I’ll take it down. To whomever made this tree: thank you, and three cheers! This is a fantastic tree!

Isn’t this tree enchanting? Some of us were having fun on Facebook thinking up comments. I invite all readers of this blog to join in here. We were being funny, but serious comments are also most welcome. These were some of my best thoughts:

1. How many stories tall is that tree, anyway?

2. We tried to reserve such a tree for our house this holiday season, too, but they were all booked!

3. There’s so much grammar represented in this tree that it’s Santa Clause who leaves presents under it. (And in the present tense, at that!)

4. Anybody feel like bookmarking this?

5. Instead of needles, this tree has spines.

6. Some of the works in this tree are from medieval scribes, and when you string lights on it, those writings become illuminated manuscripts.

7. One of these trees collapsed one time, and there was a title wave.

8. Another holiday hazard: such a tree, if left unattended, can lead to a Kindle Fire.

All comments welcome — Ho, ho, ho!

I've just been wanting to post this for awhile -- this, and the next one. November, 2013.

I’ve just been wanting to post this for awhile — this, and the next one. November, 2013.

Can anyone identify the following location? Enjoying November here — hard at work on the revisions of Signs and Shadows!

November, 2013

November, 2013

 

 

 

25 Responses to Book Tree

  1. Marquee Movies says:

    Instead of pine needles, there’ll be a pile of vowels and consonants that will need to be swept up once you put the tree away for the season.

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  8. fsdthreshold says:

    These are all really good, you all! Heh, heh, heh! Thank you! Keep ’em coming!

    You know, these trees actually grow from a fruit: liberries.

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  11. fsdthreshold says:

    Hee, hee! Trees in the forest have growth rings. This one has editions. Other Christmas trees have needles; this one has spines and leaves.

    How can you tell if the littlest elf has accompanied Santa here? Look for the fine print.

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  13. Mrs. Spamman says:

    O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
    How lovely are thy tomes!
    O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
    How lovely are thy tomes!
    They bring such joy into our homes
    With all their stories, tales, and poems,
    O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
    How lovely are thy tomes!

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  16. fsdthreshold says:

    The ultimate “Green” — the spirit of green, Earth-friendly greenness greener than which there can be none:

    a tree made out of used books

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  17. fsdthreshold says:

    It’s so wonderful to see you all here! It’s like a pre-Thanksgiving party! Mrs. Spamman, I really like that song! The German title must be O Tome-nenbaum.

    Stay close, everyone — we need to think up a way to have a delightful, nostalgic Advent on the blog! (Ideas welcome!)

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  18. Scott says:

    I’m not a musician. Will one of you help me out? I have the first line to a song going thru my head.

    O The First No-Vel, The First No-Vel!

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  20. jhagman says:

    While I can see why people like this “tree”, I cannot say I care for it myself. I saw one very similar in the Oaks Mall around 2005, It was in a window of a store,,I think it was Anthropologie or Urban Outfitters. What depressed me was that in that same mall, their had been two bookstores; BDalton and Waldenbooks. Now the only books you could see in that gigantic shopping center had been rendered into a very superficial object. I debated with my lovely lady about it (we had both worked in the BDalton) she loved it, I loathed it. At the great risk of hyperbole,,I say those books look like a pile of corpses, covered in pretty lights

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    • fsdthreshold says:

      I think it’s fine to use it. This photo has been all over the Internet for a few years. I tried to track down its source to give credit, but it seems impossible to find a photo credit for it.

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