A delivery of books!

[thistlechaser]

What better thing to get in the mail than a delivery of books? After seeing my review of her books, the author very kindly offered to send me autographed copies of them. I love them! Now I just need to find the perfect place to display them!

They make me really miss owning physical copies of books. It's wonderful to be able to effortlessly be able to carry hundreds of them with me, but there's certainly something to be said for being able to hold a book, to feel the smoothness of its cover, the weight of it, to flip through the pages and pick a random spot to read from.



(Name smudged out in photo by me, for I am indeed old and worry about online people knowing even my first name. In the age of Facebook, that's getting more and more silly, huh?)

Comments

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Wolf's Boy is on my desk right now as a booktalking candidate for when I visit schools. That is so freakin' awesome that she offered to send you copies.

I was just discussing with a few friends online if the art of the "fan letter" has gone away - like, actually sitting down and writing fan mail. Thoughts?

Um, and I totally agree with smudging your name out. There is a reason I deleted my Facebook when they DEMANDED I use my real name. Nope nope nope. I mean, it's not that hard to figure out but at the same time, it's safer to not throw it around out there!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay that's so great! I bet the kids will really love it!

I don't write anywhere near as many emails to authors as I'd like. Even though I wouldn't contact them unless it was over positive things, I still feel like it might bother them, like they might have to spend their valuable writing time to reply to me. In this case, she had something like "I love getting email from fans!" on her Contact Me page, so I took her at face value. :)

With the exception of one, no email I've sent to an author has resulted in something negative. Usually I either get no reply or (more common) a quick little email in reply. The one exception was from that author who wrote that story about the father who had to kill his son, and didn't want him to suffer while he killed him, so held his head under water until he died. I still laugh over how off that logic was... Anyway, that author was the only one whose response was snippy.

I'm glad I'm not alone! So many people online have no issues with using their full real names, but it still makes me skittish.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

My name is way too unique so I don't really want it to be easily searched. I'm usually pretty satisfied when I google "orangerful" and then google my real name and see comes up.

I'm going to have to find your review and see if I can use it to write a booktalk since I probably won't have time to read it before May. :)

Did you ever hand write any letters to celebrities?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

The Wolf's Boy review is here: http://thistle-chaser.livejournal.com/1593721.html I hope you have time to read it eventually! It really was a wonderful book. :) YA too, so it was a fast read for me. (Too fast!)

Agreed. My RL name is pretty uncommon (some people in Germany have it), I'd rather online people not know it.

If I've written to stars, it was when I was way younger. Teens/college age. I've found that I just don't care about stars anymore. I almost never watch movies (just a couple a year), and the few TV shows I watch don't drive me to write to the stars. I'd be more inclined to write a fan letter to video game makers, but as I work in the tech industry, that's too close to home for me. It's mostly authors I want to contact, I suppose because I connect most strongly with their work.

There was a time just after college that I was way, way, WAY into professional wrestling. I didn't write them letters, but I hung out at their hotels, the doorways of the places they were fighting, all that. An embarrassing period of my life. :P

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link!!!

Oh I hear ya about those young days...I saw one singer in concert...like...25 times? I try not to think about how much money and time I spent going to those shows...especially since he kinda became a dick after he got mildly famous. LOL

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That's too bad how he changed, but I had a chuckle over how many times you saw him. Younger me would have totally done the same thing.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Oooh I remember that book you reviewed!

[hamsterwoman]

How lovely of her to send you these autographed copies!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed! I love them. The covers are so pretty, I'm going to stand them on my bookshelf so I can see them all the time.

[kishenehn.livejournal.com]

Very cool, indeed ... you-who-must-not-be-named. :-p

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Avada Kedav-- I mean, yes! Very cool! :D

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Very cool! She even drew a cute little horse...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes! I loved that! :D

[jeane nevarez (from livejournal.com)]

That's so cool she sent you copies. I agree, I do love physical books (although it's a pain in the butt when you have to move!)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I'm really happy to have these, but I'm not going to expand my collection of physical ones. These two do have a place of honor on my shelf though, so I see them all the time. :)