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pshaw_raven) wrote2025-02-18 03:45 pm
pshaw_raven) wrote2025-02-18 03:45 pm
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File Under: This never happens
I received a used book in the mail today and popped that bad boy open to find a bunch of hand-written (in pencil) notes, along with a name in the front. I was enjoying the tone of the notes, and I was looking forward to reading this book with my anonymous "new friend."
I just did a quick search and she's a published author. ROFL. I'm about to drop her an email about her used book, and probably pick up a copy of her own published work.
This never usually happens. I'll search a name inside a cover and get nothing at all, or obituaries, or a Facebook page that's been inactive since 2017.
Update: SHE EMAILED ME BACK
This is so cool. She's very nice, too. I'll be getting a copy of her book probably Monday (it shipped from Hilton Head) and I'm looking forward to it! She said she DNF'd the book - it had good ideas but got pretty dense after a while, and she donated it, assuming that if she needed it, "it would come back to her." And it did.
Today I learned that Serendipity isn't just an adorable story about a baby sea monster.
I received a used book in the mail today and popped that bad boy open to find a bunch of hand-written (in pencil) notes, along with a name in the front. I was enjoying the tone of the notes, and I was looking forward to reading this book with my anonymous "new friend."
I just did a quick search and she's a published author. ROFL. I'm about to drop her an email about her used book, and probably pick up a copy of her own published work.
This never usually happens. I'll search a name inside a cover and get nothing at all, or obituaries, or a Facebook page that's been inactive since 2017.
Update: SHE EMAILED ME BACK
This is so cool. She's very nice, too. I'll be getting a copy of her book probably Monday (it shipped from Hilton Head) and I'm looking forward to it! She said she DNF'd the book - it had good ideas but got pretty dense after a while, and she donated it, assuming that if she needed it, "it would come back to her." And it did.
Today I learned that Serendipity isn't just an adorable story about a baby sea monster.