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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
A Goodreads friend recently read this (I will link you when I get the chance to do so on my laptop Dita) and I remember how years ago I frequently checked the website to see what the latest updates were. So I decided to pick up this book as well. The secrets go from small things to stuff that makes me want to cry. We all carry our sins with us but I hope writing them down helped at least a few of the people who participated in this project to cope with what was going on in their heads and lives at the time.
This book brought up a lot of nostalgic feelings from when I was a teenager, and back then those postcards helped me realize a lot of things about humanity and myself, good and bad.
This book brought up a lot of nostalgic feelings from when I was a teenager, and back then those postcards helped me realize a lot of things about humanity and myself, good and bad.
I found this book to be very amazing and do logon to the website every now and then.
Hace ya unos años, PostSecret apareció como una muestra de arte en la que gente anónima ponía postales físicas colgadas en una galería de arte. Tras el éxito de la iniciativa lo expandieron a internet, donde el éxito fue aun mayor. La gente manda secretos sobre amor y desamor, arrepentimiento y frustración, confesiones de crímenes pasados y de deseos de suicidio... Hay de todo y la exposición, uno tras otro, a estos secretos nos deja echar una vistazo al alma humana que no encuentro habitualmente en la narrativa. Muy interesante experiencia. Como dice otro comentarista, el libro debería llamarse "Postsecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives: People Are Secretly Pretty Sad And Have Some Intense Shit That Hopefully They're Dealing With in Ways Other Than Anonymous Postcards".
So we've all seen the website. Some of the cards from the early days of the site are here, and it's fantastic to see them up close (or sorta up close) and in full color. I also love that the proceeds went to charity.
I know this book has been around for a while, and that there have been subsequent collections - but this is the first time I settled down to read it.
Most interesting to me is the way half of it feels shallow, false, and fake. I don't believe a lot of them. A lot a lot. This was edgelord silly high school shenanigans for a lot of people. I feel.
But then there were the 30-40% that were just sad - people who think they should be ashamed of themselves for lots of things that most people feel a lot of the time. People who feel guilty for masturbating? Seriously?
Then there are the 3-5% that put ice in my belly. A lifetime of being treated as less than my sibling felt transformed by a postcard from someone who recognized that they are resented for being conceived before their parents were married. The commonality of abuse of all kinds. The guilt that people live with when they are tangentially connected to a death or break-up. These make it a 4 star book, to me.
Then there was the read I had on the postcards that weren't shared. I believe there was a fairly predictable standard for what was considered safe enough to share. I believe that there were lots of darker and uglier, and triggerier postcards sent. Confessions about parentage, bullying, and definitely violence (there is a blinding dearth of confessions about violence - maybe with the belief that it would validate more violence). Trouble is: the book stops being fully human when that editing happens. Much of the reason we have continued abuse and trauma is because of our failure to own its reality and commonality.
So - - I'm interested in the book that follows this one, maybe in 20 years. The one composed by someone who is disinterested in the role of editing the secrets of others. The composer who relinquishes the task of editing the nature of human secrets.
Most interesting to me is the way half of it feels shallow, false, and fake. I don't believe a lot of them. A lot a lot. This was edgelord silly high school shenanigans for a lot of people. I feel.
But then there were the 30-40% that were just sad - people who think they should be ashamed of themselves for lots of things that most people feel a lot of the time. People who feel guilty for masturbating? Seriously?
Then there are the 3-5% that put ice in my belly. A lifetime of being treated as less than my sibling felt transformed by a postcard from someone who recognized that they are resented for being conceived before their parents were married. The commonality of abuse of all kinds. The guilt that people live with when they are tangentially connected to a death or break-up. These make it a 4 star book, to me.
Then there was the read I had on the postcards that weren't shared. I believe there was a fairly predictable standard for what was considered safe enough to share. I believe that there were lots of darker and uglier, and triggerier postcards sent. Confessions about parentage, bullying, and definitely violence (there is a blinding dearth of confessions about violence - maybe with the belief that it would validate more violence). Trouble is: the book stops being fully human when that editing happens. Much of the reason we have continued abuse and trauma is because of our failure to own its reality and commonality.
So - - I'm interested in the book that follows this one, maybe in 20 years. The one composed by someone who is disinterested in the role of editing the secrets of others. The composer who relinquishes the task of editing the nature of human secrets.
Finished this just now. And wow, it is just amazing to me what people have sent in. I am sure there are those that made up things just because they could, but sadly, I think there are more that truly poured out their hearts to noone and everyone and mailed it.
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I love PostSecret... It's very honest, vulnerable, and human. Looking through all the secrets is addicting.
it's hard to rate someone's secrets. is it fair to say that some of them are boring? is it fair to find people's deep traumas entertaining? I liked it. I love not minding my own business so this book really worked for me. I love knowing the taboo and revolting thoughts that others think and the unspeakable acts they commit. it's really weird but also relieving to see that some of these people's secrets are secrets that I have. I could relate to some of these very deeply. and I couldn't believe that other people feel/went through the same thing. I bookmarked a bunch of pages that really stunned me and I even wrote some of my deep secrets in the back of the book. this was a really fun and juicy read.