Daniel Handler invites you to join his secret book club

[beatricesankinc]

II tried writing a little comment next to all the questions. The story I put on the back was about an encounter I had a few years ago. Would that be good enough?

[A comet crashing into Earth]

Jun 14, 2016 12:04:17 GMT -5 beatricesankinc said:

II tried writing a little comment next to all the questions. The story I put on the back was about an encounter I had a few years ago. Would that be good enough?

Let's hope so! I also wrote short comments to a few of them - three, I think, just the ones where I couldn't help thinking of something.

[Linda Rhaldeen]

I got a package today!

It contains a mini flag that says accuse freedom of having rabies, a book called Klickitat by Peter Rock, a scrap of paper with a childish drawing on it and some writing I can't make out, that is apparently a bookmark made by Mr. Rock's daughters, and another scrap of paper explaining the items and with a script fragment on the back. I'll edit my post in a bit with photos and a transcript.

SPOILER: Click to show

LEMONY SNICKET (V.O.)
The Baudelaires did not understand why they were now off toward an unknown relative, instead of living with Justice Strauss.

She shelves it. As she does, she spots The Incomplete History of Secret Organizations, still half-sticking out.

LEMONY SNICKET (V.O.)
But as with so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

(CONTINUED)

[Dante]

Thanks for the new script excerpt, Linda! I've added it to the thread, under the tag "Justice 2," in which you can see its proper context.

[Linda Rhaldeen]

I got home from work just barely to find an unexpected package waiting for me from "Brown and Handler". It appears to be the next installment of the bookclub, though there are no explanatory scraps of paper, just a paperback book and a poem written on very thick cardstock. No script fragments, unfortunately, though both my items are about someone named Bruce, which may or may not be a clue of some sort.

[olivine]

My package came in today! The only things in it were a poem called Love Poem for Bruce Lee by Anhvu Buchanan. The book is called Last Words From Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich. No script fragments or explanatory paper.

[Teleram]

On a more tangential note, has anybody besides Bandit read the mailed books yet?

[trip]

i got an identical package to what linda received except i assume mine had a different address on it

[wbricesmith]

This is my first time receiving something as a member of the book club! I received the Bruce Lee poem and a copy of "The Last Days of Mankind" by Karl Kraus.

[Agathological]

I come home from work and I got a random package; I saw in the top corner Brown & Handler. It took me completely by surprise!

I got a copy of Last words from Motmartre and a card stock poem.

Lucky me! glad I was not forgotten!

[Skelly Craig]

For a minute there I thought Bruce Lee actually wrote poetry and I didn't know lol

[bear]

he explained the package on social media so i knew it was gonna be comin'.

i got Mooncop by Tom gauld, which is cool bc i don't trust DH's opinions in Contemporary Lit and i was also already a fan of Goliath and The Gigantic Robot.

[Violent BUN Fortuna]

I got my first ever package from the book club today! Very exciting; I sort of assumed that I hadn't been accepted but it seems I have -- huzzah! (This makes me happy for a number of reasons, but particularly because instead of an anecdote I drew a bear on the back of my form for the book club and said the bear had eaten my anecdote, so I'm glad that was accepted.)

I got the Love Poem for Bruce Lee which everyone seems to be getting, and my book is 'Cronopios and Famas' by Julio Cortázar. 

 

[A comet crashing into Earth]

Jun 27, 2017 8:17:44 GMT -5 Violent BUN Fortuna said:

I got my first ever package from the book club today! Very exciting; I sort of assumed that I hadn't been accepted but it seems I have -- huzzah! 

I'm particularly excited about this, because that means I might have been accepted, too. I've changed my adress three times since I applied, though, so I still have only a very vague hope that any kind of package will ever make its way to me.

[gliquey]

My package arrived a few days ago, and consisted of the Bruce Lee poem everyone's gotten, and Journal of Ugly Sites & Other Journals by Stacy Szymaszek, a collection of poetry which looks very interesting.