Postcard #174: Thank you Postcard

 

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INFANTILE PARALYSIS:

JOIN MARCH OF DIMES

Postmarked: Miami, FLA

Jan 21st 1952

ORIGINAL TEXT:

Miami Mon. AM.

Hello Sister. Thanks for 

remembering my birthday but

you should forget all about birth-

days. We are leaving now to 

go back to P.G.[?] We have

been here a week. It was 

78 here today. Hasn't rained 

since we got down here.

Goo Bye

Ezy [?]

Text:

Mr. Pubillones,

I never thanked you for the book "Havana 1900's" sent to me by my Godmother Aimee Davis. The postcards in that book were beautiful. What a collection! So rich with stories and history. Thank you very much. Here is a postcard from my collection just in case you ever write a book about Miami postcards!  Stay safe. Stay healthy! Keep postcarding!

Thomas Minor

www.minormumbles.com

Not much to say here.  I received a book as a gift from my godmother Aimee.  I was looking through it a few days ago.  He wrote a very nice note on the inside which was pretty nifty.  I don't have many books signed by the authors. I've had this postcard for a while.  But...as they say "Kill your darlings." So off to a better place.  

Admittedly I really like the previous text on it. Goo Bye? and  "Thanks for remembering my birthday but you should forget all about birth....days." God, there is something beautiful about that.

Postcard #172: Review: Expanse and RPT

 

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I made the mistake of re-reading "Ready Player One." I think with one reading you spend time waxing nostalgic about Ernest Cline 80's pop culture referencing that you do not realize how cringy, it actually is... class, women, minorities, what dumb shit Cline finds interesting. Eventually, you realize the only character he nails perfectly is the white male privilege. A solid case of white savior syndrome, with a touch of Deus ex Machina. I stupidly pre-ordered "Ready Player Two." because I am a self-loathing, masochist. BUT! I am also waiting for the last book of the Expanse series to come out. James SA Corey created a very deep, realistic, sci-fi universe. I can easily say that I thoroughly enjoy these books. The authors create antagonists so irritating that it makes you want to put the book in a closet and forget about it. Yet he also creates characters (read: grey protagonists) that you become very attached to and puts them in situations that make it impossible to put down.

My favorite book...

Goodnight moon... or Candide by Voltaire.

www.minormumbles.com

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-TM

 Sent via postcrossing to Linderoos.  She requested my favorite book.  I should just put my favorite book down in my profile.  I think I will just mail a book review whenever someone requests to know my favorite book.  She also requested a card that had "sewing themes" in it.  I don't know if I have ever seen a sewing themed card...BUT did have a card that had sewn stuff in it.  I have some doubts she will receive it.  I feel like its going to get stuck in some conveyer belt or something.  We will see.  

Postcard #159: Old Man's War review

I finished John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" and "Murder by Other Means" back to back. I came to the realization how much I do not like Hugo award-winning sci-fi novel Writer John Scalzi compared to fiction novella writing John Scalzi. People keep comparing his writing to the Expanse Series by James SA Corey. It's not. "Redshirts" was "okay" and I did not care for "Old Mans War." John Scalzi takes mildly interesting / likable characters and attempts to humanize and impress these characters by killing (often violently) other more likable characters around them. The Dispatcher was a more palatable series. But it's just more John Scalzi except he is killing characters (very gray characters) in a world where people come back from the dead. I found John Scalzi's writing of what essentially amounts to descriptions of old people fucking for 2 chapters somewhat... excessive. So am I a prude? Or is he at fault for not making it more palatable for me? Am I vain for contemplating this element of his writing vs. the greater arcing of theme of the futility and senselessness of war, and the evil of man? Fuck writing.  -T.M. www.Minormumbles.com

Sent to P.R.  Ursa added the writing to the front of the postcard while I was distracted with editing this blog.  I am pretty sure those are U's.  She says it says the word "Daddy"

Postcard #92: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk Book Review

ORIGINAL TEXT
To: Peterboro Town Library
Main St.
Peterborough, N.H. 03458
Postmark: Naples, Fl 33940 April 26, 1974 PM
Stamp: Eisenhower USA 8¢
Text: Apr. 23. Temp. 85 Sunny.
Hi Ladies - Beautiful weather. Doesn't this look like me on the beach? our friends have a house on a canal which is just lovely. We hope to visit Busch Gardens soon. I'm get-ting a nice rest, + I'll be read for work. There are plenty of photos everywhere. I've been feeding the seagull
s too.  Hope things are not TOO busy. Love Marsha

Postcard #92: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk Book Review

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Along the Beautiful Sandy Beaches of Florida

So I read the book Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris. I love Aesop’s fables. My favorite fable is the “Frog and the Scorpion.” So when I picked up this Sedaris book I thought they would be modern versions of fables with personified animals. I hated this book. Every word of it. What this book ended up being was a collection of vapid empty generally un-likable animals. They were personified so well that had he not given them physical animal traits I might have mistaken them for real humans. I read this book over the course of three weeks. It was like I was hate-fuc**ng this book, every night for 3 weeks reading a paragraph or so in a sitting because I loather it so much. – TM

Transcribed by jjwood687 on Fiverr.

Sent Via Postcrossing to goldenslumbers