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Jan 18, 2012
Dindy
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FRANK WARREN PUBLISHES CONFESSIONS OF LIFE, DEATH, AND GOD
PostSecret Educates and Illuminates Suicide Prevention & Fundraising
There are many routes into the PostSecret universe - museum exhibitions, a friend’s social media feed, browsing in a bricks and mortar bookstore or online bookseller and the proverbial grapevine. The brainchild of Frank Warren, PostSecret’s core mission is raising awareness and funds for suicide prevention via book sales, events and donations.
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PostSecret Educates and Illuminates Suicide Prevention & Fundraising
There are many routes into the PostSecret universe - museum exhibitions, a friend’s social media feed, browsing in a bricks and mortar bookstore or online bookseller and the proverbial grapevine. The brainchild of Frank Warren, PostSecret’s core mission is raising awareness and funds for suicide prevention via book sales, events and donations.
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Jul 17, 2010
Terry
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As I always do, I enjoyed this PostSecret edition very much. I have to say that I found the title & even the introduction a little misleading--there are plenty of postcards in this edition that have nothing to do, really, with death or God, and "life" is a pretty broad topic, no? The introduction mentions that this edition grew out of an exhibit that focused more on religion(s), but I don't find this particular edition specifically geared toward faith etc., so, as I said, I find the in
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Dec 28, 2009
Carrie
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Imagine your mailbox being filled with bizarre postcards everyday--secrets from strangers all over the world. That's life for Frank Warren over the last few years, ever since he invited the mail to come in. I hope he never sells his house and moves, because that Copper Ridge Rd. address will probably keep getting postcards for a long time. I'm tempted to send him a card myself, after flipping through this collection and seeing some affixed to the staircase wall at the Visionary Art Museum yester
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Feb 21, 2010
Mike
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This art book is a collection of postcards sent in by readers where they confess things they keep as deep secrets in an anonymous (and often highly stylized/artistic) fashion.
This "Post Secret" collection focuses life, death and religion, though there are many types of secrets written in this book.
One person confesses they fantisize about the apocalypse coming so they could go back to smoking. Another swears they're about to stop masturbating forever. Yet anothe More...
This "Post Secret" collection focuses life, death and religion, though there are many types of secrets written in this book.
One person confesses they fantisize about the apocalypse coming so they could go back to smoking. Another swears they're about to stop masturbating forever. Yet anothe More...
Apr 27, 2011
Chris
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If you have ever wondered just how people think about religion, God and death, and believe that reading some statistical study will give you that idea, then maybe you should spend a little more time reading this little book. It will take you into a world that no one study will ever be able to uncover. The rich truth of just how people feel and understand what they've been told will all unfold here with the real truth of how they feel.
These postcards bring to life a secret world that More...
These postcards bring to life a secret world that More...
Oct 10, 2009
Mara
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I think everyone who knows me, or reads my updates, knows why I love the Postsecret project and I was not disappointed by this edition. I think that we have really complicated relationships with faith, but we aren't given much room to nurture that part of our lives without religion getting in the way. I recently tried going to church (the Unitarian Universalist) for the first time in... well, ever. Reading this book felt similar to going to that church, and listening to This American Life, of co
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May 09, 2010
Kelly
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I love PostSecret. I have all the books and I check the site first thing every Sunday.
This is a collection of secrets that are all linked to life, death and God (hence the subtitle). Like always, there are secrets in here that are mine and ones I couldn't relate to at all. Many were funny, some were gross and more than a few were break-your-heart tragic.
On a related note, today would've been my dad's 65th birthday. I still miss him all the time, and I don't really e More...
This is a collection of secrets that are all linked to life, death and God (hence the subtitle). Like always, there are secrets in here that are mine and ones I couldn't relate to at all. Many were funny, some were gross and more than a few were break-your-heart tragic.
On a related note, today would've been my dad's 65th birthday. I still miss him all the time, and I don't really e More...
Nov 09, 2009
Jennie
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I love these books to death and spend every Sunday over on post secret's blog reading the Sunday Secrets. So often they make me gasp, laugh, cry, or simply nod knowingly. Confessions, the latest installment in the post secret project, is lovely in content - but I didn't care for the format. I prefer the full page spreads of the former books over the single postcard pages in this title. Also I felt that a lot of the secrets were kind of randomly included, in that they really had nothing to do wit
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Dec 22, 2011
Jaime
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A friend of mine introduced me to the addiction that is PostSecret and luckily, that same friend had this book. I LOVE the idea: for a community art project, some guy invites perfect strangers to send him artistically arranged postcards that contain an anonymous secret.
Reading these secrets is quickly becoming an addiction. I love the raw, honesty and yes, sometimes the secrets are shocking and slightly horrifying, but more often they are sweet, sad or a combination of the both.
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Reading these secrets is quickly becoming an addiction. I love the raw, honesty and yes, sometimes the secrets are shocking and slightly horrifying, but more often they are sweet, sad or a combination of the both.
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Oct 28, 2009
Morgan
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you can't just review a post secret book. just like you can't read each secret once, and then give the book back to where ever you go it from. this may sound odd, but you have to absorb the secrets, cherish them, love them. you can't judge the secrets - it's someone's life, someone's hope or dream, and to judge that is just wrong. my friends were flipping through the book and called some of the secrets stupid...what if someone called her stupid (which she is, actually -_-) ? she's get pissed, an
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Jan 21, 2010
Book
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read Post Secret Confessions of Life, Death and God. This book is a collection of postcards sent in to Rick Warren anonymously with short confessions on them. He has collected millions of these confessions.
This particular book focuses on anonymous thoughts about god, life, atheism, death, and similar topics. The thoughts can be quite poignant, disturbing, or interesting. It is an entertaining thing to look at some of them. They can be on fairly mature content.
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This particular book focuses on anonymous thoughts about god, life, atheism, death, and similar topics. The thoughts can be quite poignant, disturbing, or interesting. It is an entertaining thing to look at some of them. They can be on fairly mature content.
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Dec 05, 2009
Amber
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This is my favorite PostSecret book so far. I expected it to be the same size as the other books, but was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t. My favorite pages were the two secrets about “unanswered prayers.” How true it is that sometimes not getting what we want leads us right where we need to be! I also enjoyed the stories, including the one with the Zen Master. The secrets are beautiful, touching, comforting – some even uncomfortable. Highly recommended for those of us who are PostSecret jun
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Feb 01, 2012
Ashley
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PostSecret books are definatley one of my favorite! The whole idea is amazing and wonderful. To tell a complete stranger your secret and finally be free of it seems so releaving!
Frank Warren gets postcards upon postcards overflowing his mailbox and listens to everyone and reads each one. This would be such an amazing experience! Thank you Frank Warren for being the ear strangers can whisper into.
I hope he continues to make books to share with the world and I hope one day whe More...
Frank Warren gets postcards upon postcards overflowing his mailbox and listens to everyone and reads each one. This would be such an amazing experience! Thank you Frank Warren for being the ear strangers can whisper into.
I hope he continues to make books to share with the world and I hope one day whe More...
Mar 19, 2010
Malorie
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There is something wonderful and yet equally disturbing in the idea that millions of people send their secrets to a perfect stranger with the hope that people all over the world will read their secret. It seems to be a wonderful paradox to think that the importance that people wish to feel was a cause of a lot of the pain expressed on these postcards, but apparently also the hope and antidote. My favorite are the silly ones, because it is okay to have happy secrets too.
Nov 04, 2009
Melissa
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My husband and I were vacationing down in Maryland and happened to come across the PostSecret Exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. It was completely by mistake, but it was a good mistake. We spent the afternoon reading all of the secrets on the walls, and I have to say, it turned out to be a very fun day! I would love to go back there, even if they are no longer doing the PostSecret exhibit because it was so much fun...
Oct 22, 2009
Lori
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This book was recommended to me by a colleague. This project started in 2004 as an experiment by Frank Warren. He left postcards for people to send in their secrets. It has to be true and something that no one else knows. The postcard needs to be homemade due to copyright. The project spiraled into an award-winning blog, several books, and two traveling art exhibits. I am now reading other PostSecret books and may mail in my own secret!
Dec 29, 2009
Rhonda
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As usual, Frank's books do not disappoint. There is just something so appealing about reading other people's secrets. I laugh, I cry, I see some of me in them, I am outraged by some, I can't believe some, but all in all I like that this project was started. It gives people an outlet for their deepest, darkest secrets and no one needs to know about them. I hope these books keep coming, because I will keep reading them.
Oct 29, 2010
Kate
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I'm an artist. Sometimes I give my pottery and paintings to Goodwill in hopes that someone will fall in love with them.
When my students' parents ask me if I have any children of my own, I have to remind myself not to blurt out, "God no! I hate kids!"
I wear interesting socks everyday, hoping that maybe someone will want to see them, and be impressed.
I judge people by the socks they wear.
When my students' parents ask me if I have any children of my own, I have to remind myself not to blurt out, "God no! I hate kids!"
I wear interesting socks everyday, hoping that maybe someone will want to see them, and be impressed.
I judge people by the socks they wear.
Nov 16, 2009
Fox
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Post Secret is a beautiful, beautiful thing. It can be humorous, disturbing, shocking, touching, and at times even life-changing. I do not say this lightly, either. The book is something that will make you question your own life, something that is always a fascinating thing. I'd recommend this to everyone, and someday hope to go to the Post Secret Exhibits myself.
Jan 26, 2010
Tamara
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Favorite Quotes:
Sometimes I am envious of women unburdened by the freedom to be anything they want to be when they grow up.
Life is more fun with my work spouse.
We're all so connected, I desperately wish we knew it.
After careful consideration over the course of 61 years, I have concluded that I am an "Apathist" - I don't know and I don't care.
I make funny faces on my photo IDs so that I'll always have something in my pocket t More...
Sometimes I am envious of women unburdened by the freedom to be anything they want to be when they grow up.
Life is more fun with my work spouse.
We're all so connected, I desperately wish we knew it.
After careful consideration over the course of 61 years, I have concluded that I am an "Apathist" - I don't know and I don't care.
I make funny faces on my photo IDs so that I'll always have something in my pocket t More...
Sep 21, 2010
Briana
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I may would give this a 2.5. Definitely not my favorite PostSecret book, which shocked me...because I thought it would be. Interesting, nonetheless. These books are all amazing in their own way.
My favorite secret :
With out it I am immobilized by anxiety...With it I am immobilized by apathy!
For those who have been there....you know.
My favorite secret :
With out it I am immobilized by anxiety...With it I am immobilized by apathy!
For those who have been there....you know.
Apr 03, 2010
Gus
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I read this at the bookstore that I work at (not knowing that it was about God...silly me, I thought it would be funny!). I wouldn't buy it, it's a quick read and pretty depressing (I know, I know...of COURSE PS is depressing!). My favorite one was when someone says they always think of Jesus as looking like Where's Waldo!
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Dec 06, 2009
Caroline
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I'm never prepared for what I find in PostSecret books. This is my third one.
In just a few words, you become the recipient of someone's darkest, heaviest thoughts. I love these collections because they remind us that despite the outwardly appearances of others and despite how different we may seem to each other we are all truly the same, we are all human.
These collections can be heartwrenching but it's always worth it.
In just a few words, you become the recipient of someone's darkest, heaviest thoughts. I love these collections because they remind us that despite the outwardly appearances of others and despite how different we may seem to each other we are all truly the same, we are all human.
These collections can be heartwrenching but it's always worth it.
Oct 07, 2009
Nevada State
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From page to page, there is a range of emotions from amused to uncomfortable but in several of the letters from strangers that’s that are collected there is a silent empathy and sometimes comfort in knowing that someone else has the same secret as your own. This book also has beautiful collage-like art.
Jan 19, 2010
Jessietaylortanner
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I'd give this a 2.5 if I could. Though I still love the concept, the execution seems to have waned from the first PostSecret book- for me, anyway. Maybe it doesn't seem as new and innovative and raw, maybe it sometimes feels like pandering...I don't know. Cool, just not as inspiring as the first.
Dec 31, 2009
Cindy
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This latest Postsecret book is the compilation of post cards originally displayed through the American Visionary Art Museum. I like the smaller formatting of the book - more like post cards, as it should be! The entire Postsecret phenomenon continues to amaze me - and Frank Warren too, I'll bet!
Nov 07, 2011
Jen
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The interconnectedness - that's what strikes me in this volume of post card secrets. I love the "socks" postcards side by side:
"I wear interesting socks everyday, hoping that maybe someone will want to see them, and be impressed."
"I judge people by the socks they wear."
"I wear interesting socks everyday, hoping that maybe someone will want to see them, and be impressed."
"I judge people by the socks they wear."
Sep 25, 2010
Mary
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I very much enjoyed this; I had never heard of PostSecret before, and found the entire concept fascinating. The intensity of each postcard gives you pause to think, and I can't help but think about what I might write. Now I look at people and wonder what their "postcard" is....
May 08, 2010
Ashley
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These secrets, from every day people, take turns being devastating, inspiring, hilarious and wonderful. It didn't take long to scan through this book, but it has definitely made an impact on me. Some of these thoughts from strangers may have just changed the course of my life.
Mar 29, 2010
Kristi
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I'd heard of this art project before, finally read one of the books. I found several of my own secrets in here. I would LOVE to see the exhibit somewhere. Absolutely amazing book, allows people to realize how alike we all are and how many "dark" secrets we're all ashamed of.
