Comments on: Heaven is a Book Stack Under the Tree http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/ \"it must give pleasure\" -- Wallace Stevens Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Indigo http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-24472 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:58:39 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-24472 bookstacks, great idea. I never have heard of that before. I do “a good read” present for all my adolescent and not so adolescent friends. It includes: the stack of books just like yours AND a new pair of flanelette pajamas, a big mug and some hot cholate. It has been a perennial staple in my gift giving repertoire for more than twenty years.

]]> By: Holiday Bookstacks are Coming! « ReadingWritingLiving http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-24366 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:02:44 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-24366 [...] | Leave a Comment  The wonderful Bloglily wrote on her blog recently about the idea of “bookstacks” – in fact the photo here is from her blog. I had kind of forgotten what (her [...]

]]> By: Book Stacks Redux « BlogLily http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-18555 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:49:06 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-18555 [...] the very best thing I did last Christmas in the gift department was make bookstacks. I made them for my husband, my children, my mother, my brother Mike, my sisters in law, my [...]

]]> By: Lazy Cow http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-4303 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:45:26 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-4303 I did this for the first time this year for both my children. A mix of 2nd hand and new books, bought slowly over the whole year, it doesn’t have to be expensive! We made our own wrapping paper (butcher’s paper and paint) so I wouldn’t feel too guilty about them ripping into the wrapping paper :-) Just discovered your blog. Lovely. Happy new year.

]]> By: mandarine » Blog Archive » A Christmas e-book stack http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-4256 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:39:31 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-4256 [...] After the roaring success of bloglily’s Christmas book stack, I wondered whether the concept could at all be translated into the digital world. A (fortunately fictional) illustration is worth a thousand pages of e-speech: [...]

]]> By: marymom http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3984 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:27:00 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3984 Whittington was such a good book. I read it out loud to Ariela. My kids got their books one by one, over the course of Hannukah, but I love the look of yours. I would be in heaven. The art of your book stacking is that you give a variety, and they are intended to delight, not improve, the recipient. Merry Christmas to all of yours!

]]> By: Ann http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3981 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:02:17 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3981 To me the word bookstack has always meant those bits of the University Library where you can get lost as you look for something that no one has asked for for so long it has started to put out roots. I like this idea much better and the notion of doing it to a budget even more. I read your post before I went out for a walk this morning and spent the time planning out what I would buy for different friends. The first birthday comes up on January 15th; Coel is going to be three. Perhaps I should start a tradition. Many thanks for the idea.

]]> By: Anita http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3965 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:26:23 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3965 What a super idea…You’re right – why didn’t I think of this myself! We are all voracious readers in the family – and this would work for birthdays too (since we ‘celebrate’ Christmas only with a change of food). No cheap second-hand books here (New Delhi), unless they are in pretty bad condition!

]]> By: freshfodder http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3920 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:08:39 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3920 wow this is a pretty good idea. i’m gonna have to steal this gift idea =). i agree with the previous commenters that this is only do-able with second-hand books.

commuity “friends of the library” are good places to get used books. books usually sell for anywhere between $0.25 and $5.00. i used to go to the one in the parking station on Durant as an undergrad.

]]> By: mswiz http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3887 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:45:09 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3887 I left a comment earlier but as it has vanished into cyber space I will try again. As you may see I now have my own blog – inspired by yours!
Anyhow, I love the idea of a book stack I aways buy at least 3 books for my daughters on Christmas and birthdays – I believe they can never have too many! Although my husband would disagree as he has to build the book shelves! I wrap them seperately to balance the present piles and my choices for them this year include Little Women for my 11yr old – it is high time she read this one- Goodnight Mr Tom for one of my twins and some Anne Fine for the other one.
Next year I will try and remember this lovely idea.

]]> By: Ms Wiz http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3884 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:15:17 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3884 What a wonderful idea. I always get my daughters (11yrs and 8ys Twins) at least 3 books each at Christmas but wrap them seperately to even out the present pile. This year I bough my eldest: Little Women (It really is time she read this) plus two others, one by an auther she discovered recently at High School and an adventure/Spy Story (Can’t remember the names and they are already wrapped! The 8 yr olds’ include Goodnight Mr Tom and books by Anne Fine. We have a good Oxfam book shop in a neighbouring town which is always worth a visit but I never thought of second hand book stacks. My brother would love that- an idea I hope I can hold onto until his birthday or next Christmas.

]]> By: Aphra Behn http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3873 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:54 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3873 It’s the sheer quantity which is so indecently splendid! Only affordable if one goes second-hand – but that is also something special. Would it help to call them “vintage editions”?

My ex once asked me what my family did on the afternoon and early evening of Christmas Day.

“We read our presents”

Thankyou bloglily.

Aphra

]]> By: bloglily http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3851 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:11:22 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3851 Thank you very much Eoin. I think it’ll be easier to read. Now all I’ve got left to do is transfer the links to the blogs I read (they’re residing at the bottom of the site these days) into a page at the top so they’re easy for people to get to.) And I did the domain transfer finally, the one you did in about thirty seconds. How it took me so long I cannot explain. Like many changes, it was far easier in the doing than in the thinking about.

]]> By: eoinpurcell http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3836 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:24:42 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3836 Nice new theme BL~
Eoin

]]> By: bloglily http://bloglily.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3804 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:29:27 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/heaven-is-a-book-stack-under-the-tree/#comment-3804 Ella — I knew your good sense about how to find books came from somewhere! At lunch today, I’m going to a good second hand shop in the city, twenty dollars in hand, to find a stack of books for my mother, who wants fiction, a few happy endings, and something to wake her mind up.

Hello dear Eoin, Embarrassingly enough, my own self-chosen stack is really, really huge. I’m hoping no one will notice!

Kristin — I hope it all goes well. My guess is that you two are connected in ways that don’t require physical proximity — and how nice to have a box from your mother at Christmas. (As for wrapping one up for yourself, that’s certainly my plan!)

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