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A note for people who've friended me in the last month, and others who've just forgotten - my family spent two years living in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania when I was a kid, and Mom wrote a bunch of letters home to her parents and my dad's parents (and Dad wrote a few, and Mom occasionally made me draw a picture or something).

One of my long-term projects is to get them all typed in, and I've been posting them off and on under a filter. If you'd like to read them, just drop a note here and I'll add you to the filter.

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i'd love to read it!

You're on it now! If you want to read the previous ones - I've been tagging them all as "africa letters" but LJ is being stupid and trying to search for those two words separately when you click on the tag, so you need to replace the '+' with '%20' in the tag URL. Or just click here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/telophase/tag/africa%20letters (http://www.livejournal.com/users/telophase/tag/africa%20letters)

thank you!

* And they're in reverse chronological order.

Me too! Me too! Sounds wicked interesting.

You're in it now. :)

Coincidentally I just got off the phone with my mother, who's retired and volunteers at herlocal library, who complained to me that she's now found the most boring job at the library thanks to Tokyopop. Turns out that Baker & Taylor or whoever it is that slaps the stickers with the library's name on the front of book - doesn't seem to be the library themselves - slapped tham on the back of all the RtL-printed manga. Circulation doesn't like that and wants it on the front cover of the book, so Mom spent all afternoon cleaning sticky stuff off the backs of Tokyopop manga with Scotch tape. XD

I'm glad to contribute to the general non-productivity of volunteer librarians everywhere!

I'm just happy that there's manga in libraries at all, really. :-)

Out of curiosity, does your mom read manga? Mine tries hard to be supportive of what her daughter does for a living, but seems to be generally baffled by it in the end. It's very cute, really.

:D I found it encouraging that there were enough manga that the job took her all afternoon.

Mine doesn't read it - she doesn't read comics, either, and remains gently baffled by the visual language manga employs. I think if I ever published something she'd read it, just because it was mine, but she wouldn't expect to really understand it, which would keep her from *actually* understanding it, I think, no matter how simple the visual language I used was. (She usually reads mysteries (cozies, primarily), Regency romances, and a variety of nonfiction, but primarily history and social history, although she's got all of Steven Jay Gould's natural history essays.)

Mine apparently managed to make it through Van Von Hunter 1, but the whole left-to-right thing has her lost. Too bad, too. I bet she'd actually enjoy Peach Girl. I'm looking forward to seeing what my cooler-than-thou teenage cousins think of it this weekend. :-)

oh wow! I want in ^.^

You're in!

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