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JacintaMCarter
Harry Potter | JK Rowling
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In 4th grade, I convinced my teacher to let us do a #LetterToTheAuthor project. We'd read the first HP novel in 3rd grade, so we decided to write to JK Rowling. We each wrote a letter and then put all of them into a manila envelope. Cut to the end of the school year; I alone got a response. My classmates were pissed. #BooksAcrossOceans

TrishB That's cool 👍 for you anyway! 7y
MicheleinPhilly 😮That's amazing! 7y
Tanzy13 what did the response say? 😊📚 7y
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Bookzombie That's so cool! 7y
RohitSawant How awesome! 7y
JacintaMCarter @Tanzy13 It was just a form letter saying she was glad I liked the books and she was hard at work on the next one and she hoped I'd enjoy what was coming next. 7y
pri_bibliophile Aww but that's awesome! 7y
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BookInMyHands
Journals of Lewis and Clark | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
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We visited Fort Clatsop in Astoria, Oregon last week and I came across this racist sign.

No, I don't suppose York was treated as a peer. I do think these are the kinds of things we white people tell ourselves to feel better about our American heroes owning slaves in this country that was founded as a racist society.

This is not acceptable.

When I got home I wrote 3 letters to the National Parks Service.

#LetterToTheAuthor
#booksacrossoceans

TrishB Be interested in the reply! 7y
Texreader Good for you!!!! 7y
Texreader Btw, I loved reading about Lewis and Clark in this book about a most amazing woman: 7y
becausetrains Thank you for sending letters, @BookInMyHands - there are some closet racists in NPS. I ran across a few in the National Capital Region re: whitewashing Frederick Douglass' story. 7y
BookishFeminist @becausetrains they aren't closet racists if they are making signs like this 🤡 but for real though @BookInMyHands thank you for sending a letter! I hope they listen and take it down. 7y
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Purrfectpages
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This is a story that is part of our basal reader at school and the first thing that came to mind for #lettertotheauthor #booksacrossoceans#

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JazzFeathers
Midnight Falcon | David Gemmell
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In the late 1990s l started writing to David Gemmell, my very favourite author. I'd write him every few months, telling him little things that happened to me in my broken English. Sometimes l would send him little presents. I liked doing it. I never expected anything in return.
But he was so kind to actually reply to me twice in the few years l wrote to him.
I remember that 'correspondence' with fondness.

#BooksAcrossOceans #LetterToTheAuthor

TrishB That's very cool 👍 7y
Ms_T ❤️❤️❤️ 7y
mjdowens Author love❤️❤️ 7y
JazzFeathers @TrishB @Ms_T @mjdowens l've always had a feeling he was s kind man 7y
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Lizpixie
The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern
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#BooksAcrossOceans #day15 #LetterToTheAuthor I've only ever written a letter to one author & it's to this author about this book. As soon as I finished it, I felt compelled to pick up a pen & tell her exactly how wonderful I thought her novel was. I'm really hoping she writes another, I'm especially hoping it's just as good and she doesn't end up being another writer who either failed to live up to expectation or only had the one story in her.

DivineDiana Did she write back? 7y
TrishB Nearly finished it! I've just got in from work and am going to read the last few chapters upstairs on my own! 7y
Kalalalatja Great pic! 👌 7y
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monkeygirlsmama
Harry Potter: fun book | J.K. Rowling
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#BooksAcrossOceans #LetterToTheAuthor #hpchapteraday

Dear Ms. Rowling,
Why? Why didn't you let Harry, Hermione, Ron, and all their friends end their stories on a high note? Why allow them to be aged and written in such a way that doesn't ring true to the essence of who the characters were? I ask again, why? Just why?!

Sincerely,
Me

BethM Amen 7y
Kendra.Diane This makes me sad 7y
hlgreenfield I just pretend it didn't happen! It was like bad fanfiction - the characters just weren't true to themselves! So disappointing! 7y
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Lmstraubie Can I sign my name to your letter also?? 7y
monkeygirlsmama @Kendra.Diane This play-script or my feelings about it? 7y
Kendra.Diane No I agree! It makes me sad she keeps pushing the franchise 😿 7y
monkeygirlsmama @hlgreenfield I'm still far from finished so will hold off on making a final judgment, but so far I just can't get past how different the characters are. Since I've never been interested in fan fiction I have nothing in that realm to compare it to, so I'll take your word on that last bit. Then I will continue to avoid fanfiction because if that's what it's like then ick ick ick. 😖 7y
monkeygirlsmama @Lmstraubie But of course! 😏 @Kendra.Diane I gotcha. 👍Yep, couldn't agree more. 7y
hlgreenfield Oh I've read fanfiction that is really good. This book was like bad fanfiction that I would give up on 😂 7y
hlgreenfield I hope you like the book better than I did! It just wasn't for me. The characters were all wrong ( and I also think some things just didn't make sense) 7y
[DELETED] 3803335244 I totally agree with you, why?!? 7y
hgrimes lol, yepppp. It is so much more enjoyable hating this book with other people than it was the first time when I read it alone! 😂 7y
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Lcsmcat
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A book of letters between Eudora Welty and her editor (and writer in his own right) William Maxwell #lettertotheauthor #bookscrossoceans @pri_bibliophile @mellisarock