Letters

[close] Running to Thousand Letters - An Unexpected Adventure is the first in a series about what happens when Author and lifelong adventurer Wendy Drake unfolds 1,000 letters she bought at an estate sale in 1997.

[close] This group is for devotees of epistolary novels. Epistolary stories are told through a series of documents including letters, emails, diaries, blogs, etc. They can be fiction or nonfiction. Epistolary Bookmarks is a place for readers to share and discuss their favorite or current epistolary reads, ask questions, make recommendations, take polls, and more. While this is an adult group, book discussions, questions, and recommendations may also include epistolary works from other genre age groups including YA and Children's literature.

[close] Epistolary writing is actually writing a story in the form of a series of documents - mostly letters, or journal entries, newspaper clippings, or in more recent times, blog posts, text messages, or emails. This book club is dedicated to reading epistolary novels. "There is something pleasantly, innocently voyeuristic about reading an epistolary novel. They give you the feeling of stumbling on a box of letters left in an attic, but there are no consequences or hurt feelings if you read them. Actually, the author prefers that you read them." BookRiot 8/24/16

[close] "It's 1941. Hitler is gaining power overseas and the whole world is being turned upside down. My home has been bombed and my friends and family are dying. In the middle of all this our men are dying trying to free the world from evil. So why does everything with you feel so right? It should feel wrong." The locals of a small street in London have decided to set up a charity dedicated to helping those fighting for their lives on the front lines. Part of this service is a letter exchange programme for those who have no family. The idea was to boost soldiers morale. It wasn't too fall in love but when your pouring your whole heart out-It's difficult not to fall in love. Many shotgun weddings have occurred due to people being scared about the future but this programme seems to be promoting true love or at least a version of marriages that aren't going to fall about as soon as war's over.