Don’t Go There! One Last Thing About Book Flowers- To Avoid Embarrassment

You don’t want to wear an X-rated corsage!

Watch Out for Questionable Text!

When I need to prepare a LOT of book flowers at one time, I often use pages from books that I have used for other projects, I’m working fast, and I don’t usually pay really close attention to what is written in the text, but ONE time I was made shockingly aware that being completely oblivious is perhaps not such a good thing.

Many of the books that the Friends of the Library have no use for are NonFiction, and many are academic in nature, so they rarely have content that could be labeled “Offensive”, so they make great book flowers in the carnation design which can actually be smoothed out and read. On the other hand, I was making a large quantity of book flowers one time, and by chance happened to catch myself goggling at the violent rape scene described in my flower…. The circle, small though it was, had enough text to clearly relate the vicious scene, and though I welcome conversations started by book flowers, the potential for embarrassment, though slight, was too great for me to ignore. That flower decorated the inside of my garbage can!

Carnation Book Flower can send an unintended message in its text!

Other styles of book flowers don’t usually have large uninterrupted expanses of readable text, but this easy carnation one does, so keep an eye out for just such an offensive pitfall.