Don’t try to find out their address for mail unless they have expressly disclosed a P.O Box number for fan mail. If they have social media write to them there or if they have disclosed an email address then emails are okay.

In my experience those that don’t want to be contacted by readers wont have a way for you to contact them anyway or they won’t respond.

My library meant the world to me was an introvert so those books were like family to me

I don't think anything could ever beat a handwritten letter.

Why isn’t it a stellar idea?

Stuck up little bitch

I've been to St. Louis and I wanted to go home

Email, social media DM, any avenue is probably fine.

Time on My Hands by Peter Delacorte, 221 ratings: travel writer has to go back in time to Old Hollywood to prevent Ronald Reagan from becoming president, meets/befriends all the stars, becomes a successful screenwriter by writing classic movies he knows from the future

Lloyd--What Happened, A Novel of Business, by Stanley Bing, 92 ratings: hilarious satire of corporate life

What the Dogs Have Taught Me, Merrill Markoe, 343 ratings: humorous essays by the original head writer of Late Night with David Letterman

George Bush, Dark Prince of Love Lydia Millet, 198 ratings: political satire, title says it all

Tolstoy still hasn’t written me back. What a dick.

Do you know the best way to typically go about it? I was thinking of sending an email or something because it's simply the easiest.

As a librarian I'd like to respectfully say that I don't think that's a stellar idea. But you're entitled to your viewpoint (that is, after all, what libraries are for...) as well.

I see I see. And is there like, a database I could look up this info or would it be like. Just county to county I need to look into?

Also, is there like a limit for how far I can be out of their district to rent?

I get distracted by his books too but loved insomnia years ago. Hard to find really good mysteries like misery.

Plenty of artists get fan mail. Don't say weird stuff, but otherwise it would be totally fine/normal. Worst case scenario it gets ignored.

My neighborhood has a big yard sale every year, I always get a few good picks

Definitely will have a look, but I'm looking for physical books atm

OooOoh thanks!

Count me the third. And I'm American. It always made me cringe, even when I watched it as a kid. It was embarrassing to see him throw away everything for that horrid girl.

It depends on which library you get a card from; you get access to that library's entire digital catalog. My library is a pretty small library, so it's not vast but definitely still a good collection. We have manga and comics, and update our collection monthly with new titles that come out as well as requested titles. I recommend doing some research to find out which libraries are good values in terms of the cost of their out of county fee versus the size of their collection.

Exactly, no bills being paid.

So essentially people are saying, "Keep posting thousands of words here for free and leave them up forever" while authors are saying, "Hey, here are thousands of words here for free but after tons of people have enjoyed them I am going to take the early work down to post them somewhere else where I can get paid and will use that money to live and keep writing NEW words I will post here for free for you to read." And people are like, "No, keep posting for free".

Jist like Bob Dylansongs, and Hallmark Cards.

No thanks. That has nothing to do with my point. My point is get libraries out the hands of government entirely. In other words end “public” libraries and transition or replace them into privately-owned and market-driven products.

I love chickens too! People just don’t see the beauty in the reality of it lol.

Huh. Really? So, how vast would you say this catalog is? On these apps? Like, do they have only a specific type of book? Do they have manga and comics? Do they have like more current books or just older? Im trying to get an idea so, if worse comes to worse I can get my Grandma to still have her reading. It maybe not as great as having a physical book in your hand (Something I personally feel as a Millennial and she is a Boomer so I know she will most likely agree.) but like. If I can still help her then damn it I am gonna.

Am American, so I'll jump in and try to explain the "romance and heroism" aspect -- it mostly hinges on how Gatsby reinvents himself from scratch. He started out as a nobody in the middle of nowhere, but a few years later he has a new name and a fancy swingin lifestyle, all of which he conjured out of thin air. He has no history to hold him down; he is that self-made man which seems to be irresistable to the American mindset. Plus, he has a romantic mindset, pursuing his lady love like some kind of poetic hero.

The novel of course puts a spin on this by having him "conjure all of that out of thin air" by cozying up to existing rich people, and then just straight-up crime. He then blows all his riches in the tackiest, dumbest way possible (the party scenes are supposed to be pretty over-the-top and ridiculous). Finally, even with all this in mind, his "lady love" is a good deal worse, which he is completely blind to.

Of course, a large number of people miss the point and enjoy the tacky and ridiculous displays of wealth completely for their own sake; most of the movie versions owe their success to this.