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Letters from a Luddite by Christina Crook | Make Your Own Book

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At Marisa's prompting, I spent the weekend laying out the Letters from a Luddite book. Discover the freedom of stepping off-line through the romantic pages of the type-written note...

The 75-page soft cover book features 31 letters, rich original photography, quotes on technology and a recommended reading list.

After all of the mishaps with the postal service, the letters are finally in an easy-to-read format! Music to my ears.

I hope you enjoy it.

Where, oh where...?

Where, oh where have we been?

It has been a busy month in the land of the interwebs. I (Christina) have been slowly working my way through emails and figuring out the next steps on my online journey. Believe it or not, there are two more letters that have not made it to this blog. They were slow in coming and then Marisa got slammed with work and kids and a temperamental scanner. She hopes to post them in a matter of days.

There is something I must confess: the lateness of the letters are not all Canada Post's fault (though the disorder is fully their's to blame.) Once the letters began rolling in late, I gave myself slack in mailing. Each letter was written more-or-less around the exact date, often first as a thought jotted in my 'off-line' paper journal. Every letter was also sent in numerical order, but a handful were delivered to the mailbox days late. The strangest thing about the letters arriving in such a random order is the fact that I delivered all of them to the same two post boxes each a block from our house: one with a pick-up time of 9am and the other, 5pm. I am curious to know if the pick-up times are inaccurate and if days get skipped.

Which brings me to a fun bit of news...

Upon my return to Toronto (we have been in B.C. visiting family for the past few weeks while my husband, Michael, galavants around the world for work,) I will be conducting two interviews. The first will be with my friend Rob, a letter carrier, who is going to give me a tour of a Canada Post facility. The second is with Matt Lovett, an efficiency expert with Canada Post.

Stay tuned for these next month.

The CBC covers the Letters from a Luddite project

Nora Young, host of CBC's national technology show: Spark, emailed me a mere two days after posting her a letter. 

Hi Christina,

I got your letter; thank you. Very interesting project. The funny thing
is, at almost the same time, I came across lettermo.com via Twitter. Are
you aware of this project? There must be something in the air that has
people thinking about unplugging and writing about it!

Do you have a few minutes to chat about Letters From a Luddite on
Monday?

Cheers,
Nora

I’m interviewed about the Letters from a Luddite project along with author Mary Robinette Kowal who began the Month of Letters Challenge. My bit leads off the show... Eep. You can give it a listen here.