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Missed Connections: Love, Lost & Found (2011)

by Sophie Blackall(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0761163581 (ISBN13: 9780761163589)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Workman Publishing Company, Inc.

review 1: I've been a long time reader of missed connections, and an infrequent poster. I have a love for the whimsy of some of the posts. This book takes a bunch of cute posts and makes them even cuter. The writer / illustrator painted wonderful little drawings that she thought up as she read peoples' posts. They're wonderful. Definitely happy to keep this around and browse it, especially when my day needs brightening.
review 2: In this lovely little book Sophie Blackall has collected dozens of her illustrations of Missed Connections ads, those shot in the dark personals people write to others they almost but didn’t quite meet. The ads themselves run the gamut from direct to romantic and often include quirky details. Blackall uses these details as the basis for whimsi... morecal paintings which visualize and narrate the ads. The overall effect is sweet and a little dreamy. As readers we get to imagine all these relationships that could have been and we feel the writer’s longing, nostalgia and hope. It was a little silly reading it over just a few days as the formula for the work became clear. But it would be terrific as a waiting room book, something to enjoy in short snippets…pretty and distracting vignettes that let the imagination carry on. less

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