Oooh I’ll have to check that out. I really liked White Noise when I watched it back in the day.

Pace yourself. It took me 30 years to finally finish, but I loved most of it. Though some of volumes 5 and 6 were a bit of a slog. Too much obsessing over Albertine.

I am currently reading it and find the prose really good with the main focus being to remember his old feelings and thoughts from back then. There is really no overarching plot or structure which I feel can make it a bit hard to keep going as there is no goal outside of the interesting ways that he describes feelings and patterns of behaviour/thought.

I found Swann's relationship to Odette really interesting in how much of his love comes from him and doesn't really have that much to do with her and her actions.

I’m Facebook friends with my favourite author. She comments whenever I post my cat

Neil Gaiman is on Tumblr, and is very active there. Also one of the only celebrities whose presence is actually enjoyed, not merely tolerated. Also present are Diane Duane and Peter Morwood, and likely several others I haven't found yet. They all interact with followers and fans alike, and are happy to receive messages about their works.

This is not a hard-and-fast rule, but rather a general guide: most creators are happy to receive fanmail by any means, hand-written, typed, electronic, you name it. Just don't be weird or creepy.

Well I am dead ….. after all ………… funny foreign language

The Swan, you just unlocked a childhood memory for me! I was probably about 9 or 10 when I read it and it haunted me

I love you

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My daughter reached out to her favorite very well known author while in high school. She sent him an email on a dare from a friend. To her surprise he actually responded. They became pen pals and he has helped/encouraged her to continue her world building. He has been very helpful, which I hear is not uncommon for this well known author when interacting with young, aspiring writers.

If you are going to do this, don't be a star struck fan. Treat them as people with interests outside writing, and contact them through established, published means. Don't be a creep.

I don't see a problem with it as long as you aren't telling them how to do their job, what they need to do to make it better, or how things should have gone in their story, etc. Which it doesn't sound like you have intentions of doing. Most authors have a mailing address or email listed somewhere in their online bio these days. There are a lot that are even available for direct communication through various messing apps. A lot of them are more easily accessible due to social media. Some even have author pages and fan groups that they're active with. If they're bigger name authors you're less likely to get a response though. But from what I've seen, most authors love to get messages like that. It makes them feel good to know that their work has had such a positive impact on people.

Worked as an editor at a big house. The big authors get such a volume of fan mail they can’t answer it and hire people to go through it for them. The smaller authors are generally THRILLED, totally THRILLED to hear that their book made an impact. (Caveat: authors are people like everyone else. There are some weird, misanthropic authors out there.)

Often authors have websites and you can contact them via their sites.

not yet, is it a bloody and cruel story? feeding lamb to someone sounds normal

Brooklyn and Phillie do too I believe.

Was forced to read it in second year French studies at uni. and didn't understand anything of why it was such a big deal. Having matured a bit since then, I still hate the experience, but I can understand that the book is accepted as one of the great French literary works and worth reading for some. I dunno, I think my problem with it is how we were forced to analyse it a certain way (the use of senses, as opposed to as a satire in other traditions). Anyways, important thing is that you enjoy it.

I emailed my favorite author because I acquired a first edition of one of their books and was hoping to mail it to them for signature and have them send it back (at my expense). He wrote back and because we live in the same area, he suggested we meet for a coffee and brought signed copies of some of his other books, as well. Not to say that every author can or will respond this way, but you never know!

Marsh wrote one series and I started at the beginning with "A Man Lay Dead." I thought that the second book, "Enter a Murderer," was better. But I'm a big supporter of reading series in order. By book 3-4 I was hooked.

So I need clarification on this. I’m a Cali resident but not with a Los Angeles street address and I don’t see that they’ve opened it up to outsiders without physically going to LA. Where are you seeing out of state e-cards for $50?

“I don't live in Los Angeles, may I still apply for an e-card?

Anyone may apply for a full-access library card by visiting one of our library locations with identification and proof of address.”

Edit: and I just tried to apply for a card and it told me that I needed a LA address to apply for a card. So. Yah, I’m not seeing that they’re allowing out of county - or state - cards.

Depending on your grandma's health, she may be able to get reading materials through the Wolfner service.

https://www.sos.mo.gov/wolfner

Talking books and Braille, and your local library may have a homebound service that can send all kinds of materials to her if she is basically homebound.

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I’ve been able to reach a few authors on Instagram, especially smaller/newer authors

That's what they want.

https://www.rawstory.com/republican-party-legislative-takeover/

I really liked Our share of night by Mariana Enriquez. This is dubbed as a horror book and tells the story of a family which deals in dark magic and the author uses the history of the family to talk about the horrors of the dictatorship.

Very well written but totally accessible for people whose first language isn't Spanish but would like to try and read it in Spanish.

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Then try Rex Stout for a change of pace.