Booklover Carols are becoming a tradition here.  You’ll find links to last year’s tongue-in-cheek carols at the bottom.  This year we have to honor the ” talk of the publishing world” with its very own selection.  Plus, as we run out to buy last minute gifts, let’s not forget our favorite independent bookstore, which will quickly vanish if we don’t support them.

So without further introduction and my best holiday wishes.

The Little E-Reader
(sung to the tune of The Little Drummer Boy)

Come, they told me
Pa-rum pum pum pum
A new technology
Pa-rum pum pum pum
No paper to be seen
Pa-rum pum pum pum
A story on a screen
Pa-rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum

Fifty books we need
Pa-rum pum pum pum
When we read

Kindle, Sony
Pa-rum pum pum pum
They feel so phony
Pa-rum pum pum pum
I want to turn a page
Pa-rum pum pum pum
Don’t care if they’re the rage
Pa-rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum

Ignore the corporate greed
Pa-rum pum pum pum
When you read

Trees are treasures
Pa-rum pum pum pum
Chopped down for pleasures
Pa-rum pum pum pum
When e’er you load a Nook
Pa-rum pum pum pum
No tree perished for that book
Pa-rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum

Story is the thing to heed
Pa-rum pum pum pum
When we read

I’ll Shop There For Christmas
(sung to the tune of I’ll Be Home For Christmas)

 I’ll shop there for Christmas
You can count on me
Please wrap Poe with misletoe
To place beneath my tree

Christmas Eve will find me
Where bestsellers gleam
I’ll shop there for Christmas
If only in my dreams

I’ll shop there for Christmas
I can count on you
You know where to find Jane Eyre
And Dan Brown’s latest, too.

Christmas Eve will find me
Where “for rent” signs gleam
I’ll still shop there for Christmas
If only in my dreams

Booklover Carols Part One

Booklover Carols Part Two