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Dear Old Love

Anonymous Notes to Former Crushes, Sweethearts, Husbands, Wives, & Ones That Got Away

By: Andy Selsberg

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Dear Old Love

Anonymous Notes to Former Crushes, Sweethearts, Husbands, Wives, & Ones That Got Away

By: Andy Selsberg

Call it wisdom of the heart. Or the broken heart. A knowing, funny gift for everyone who's ever been in love and then out of love: the newly single, the lonely-hearted, and even the happily re-paired. Dear Old Love is a collection of anonymous love notes to the ones who got away—or were left behind. They're the notes that ex-lovers have written to set the record straight. Or crooked. They're concise, witty, melancholy, revealing, sweet, sentimental, outrageous, withering, indignant, sometimes all at the same time. And like a pitch-perfect little poem, each entry paints a complete picture with just a handful of apt words: "A current snapshot of you erased 25 years of fantasizing about what could have been." Or: "I don't care that you miss my dog. When you cheated on me, you cheated on him, too." Or: "I say 'I love you' to people all the time now, to make that time I said it to you mean less." And for anyone wanting help to write their own love note, the book ends with clever fill-ins: "I wonder if we’d still be together if I had just admitted I was a ____, instead of saying you had a ____ so big it blocked out the _____." Try it on someone you loved.

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Workman Publishing Company

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0761158251

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9780761158257

The Jottery

Thought Experiments for Everyday Philosophers and Part-Time Geniuses

By: Andy Selsberg

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The Jottery

Thought Experiments for Everyday Philosophers and Part-Time Geniuses

By: Andy Selsberg

In The Jottery, you'll find a series of prompts, suggestions, commands, and questions that are intended to cause neurons to fire and a spectrum of ideas to surface--possibly good, potentially useful, conceivably profitable, maybe illuminating, and hopefully amusing. There's also a chance you'll come up with nothing, and experience a beautiful "idea-lessness" that would be the envy of Zen monks everywhere. Also a win. Think of this as The Book of Questions for creative types, from writers and artists, to idea gurus and daydreamers, perfect for writing classes, train rides, parties, meditation retreats, game nights, insomnia bouts, lulls in dates or low points in relationships, company brainstorming meetings, waiting rooms, therapy sessions, and more. The dozens of ingenious prompts include: You create something called Soul Lotion. What are the best places to rub it? (Don’t limit your answer to human body parts.) You're commissioned to design a bridge to nowhere. Briefly describe possible nowheres you might build it to. Where did the fun go? Suggest four hyper-specific places. If you do manage to track the fun down and tie it to a chair, what do you do or do with it? You're commissioned to write a pilot script for a post-apocalyptic sitcom. It’s based not on the next post-apocalyptic period, but the one after that, after a new civilization arises and collapses. What are seven things you do to celebrate this cool new job? You design vending machines that sell things that are not physical objects. Like what? And for how much? List twelve things you can have instead of “it all.” List a handful of elevator tension-breakers, and a handful of elevator tension-makers.

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Penguin

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0399171460

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9780399171468

Dear Old Love

Anonymous Notes to Former Crushes, Sweethearts, Husbands, Wives, & Ones That Got Away

By: Andy Selsberg

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Dear Old Love

Anonymous Notes to Former Crushes, Sweethearts, Husbands, Wives, & Ones That Got Away

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0761158251

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You Are Good at Things

A Checklist

By: Andy Selsberg

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You Are Good at Things

A Checklist

By: Andy Selsberg

You may be suffering from unrecognized awesomeness! You have the uncanny ability to always notice when someone has gotten a new haircut. You can make the last half-ounce of toothpaste last for a month. You're a genius at getting stores to let you in even though it's closing time. You're a wizard at resisting the urge to eat all the cheese right after grating it. This book is a celebration of all your secret skills and unheralded abilities. It calls attention to the way you're able to give your kids names that will never appear on key chains at gift shops, and cheers your talent for wrapping presents using very little tape. In your own way, you're a master, and the world should know it. Because let's face it: YOU ARE GOOD AT THINGS!

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1101580291

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9781101580295

You Are Good at Things

A Checklist

By: Andy Selsberg

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A Checklist

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