Books Are Our Friends!!

Hey, I'm Rebecca Rosenblum, Biblioasis author and now occasional Thirsty guest-poster. Amazingly enough, my invitation to write some posts here came just a week after the only post on this blog that I have ever violently disagreed with. I scrolled through the Bibliorgy photos while peeking between the fingers of my non-scrolling hand, brain twitching.

Books don't go on the floor, yo--not if it can possibly be avoided. Books certainly don't go on a dirty warehouse floor in heaps that look dumped out of a truck and scattered so that they could be stepped on or... (gasp) kicked.

No. No no no no.

Books are our friends--we must treat them as well as we are able (and not kick them). You know this, I'm sure, since you're reading a publisher's blog after all. Just in case, though, I thought it might help if I offered a little refresher on the Dos and Don'ts of book-loving. Even if you know all this stuff, maybe you know someone who isn't quite sure...pass it on!!

Books Are Our Friends

Books are not a game.

Incorrect: Building a big messy stack of fiction, poetry and reference books for "fun."

Correct: Playing Jenga.

Books are not a fashion accessory.

Incorrect: Chekov hat.

Correct: Patent-leather clutch.

Books are not a step up.

Incorrect: Standing on style-guides.

Correct: Befriending the tall.

Books are not weapons.

Incorrect: Violent backhand motion with Russian classics.

Correct: Violent downward stabbing motion with fork and/or scissors.

All this is not to say that books are delicate, needing to be preserved carefully away from human hands. Books are friends, meant to be our companions, read, loved and embraced.

Sometimes a spine gets broken in the excitement.

Sometimes, despite our best efforts, bad things happen to good books.

But that's ok--books are there to be read, and if we can help them fulfill that destiny, the occasional incident is, well...incidental. Following these simple tips will help you keep your books mainly free of dirt, bugs, hairspray and blood, but the only reason you'd want them that way is to read them. Read books!

Rebecca

PS--Megathanks to CanLit's Next Top Models: Scott, Wren, Jamie, Angela, Jane, Megan, David, Jordana, Ananda, Chuck, Michael, Anton and Leo.