The would-be assassin didn’t miss. The bullet passed through a lung, but bypassed an artery and missed Warren’s heart by millimetres. A former client, troubled boxer Terry Marsh, was tried and acquitted on a 10-2 majority verdict. “So there were two people convinced it was him…” shrugs Warren. However, while he declares “I know with cast-iron certainty who it was”, he seems not to have shared this perhaps crucial information with, say, the police. The second-to-worst PostSecret book. The term for most of these secrets today is "vaguebooking." Other secrets are targeted at a single person, as if the creator were more interested in shaming that one person rather than bearing their soul. Some aren't even secrets so much as they are, "Look at me!" statements or competitive introversion.

If you can't read the text on this blurry photo, it says: "In November 2004, I printed 3000 postcards inviting people to share a secret with me..." I've seen bits of the books before, and articles about it, but this was the first of the books that I've read all the way through and really took some time with. For some reason it reminded me of the film "Amelie" - one of my all time favorites. Casey, Laura. (March 4, 2009) "Walnut Creek hosts 800 PostSecret fans at Lesher Center," East Bay Times. Retrieved on August 1, 2016. That was enough to intrigue me. Every year my school library does a "Blind Date with A Book" challenge around Valentine's Day and this is the first time that I actually parcipated. I don't know about you, but that hook was too good to pass up.I still look at your 3rd grade picture and think what might have happened...If I hadn't moved 825 miles away." The story of my life would be a bloody sight shorter if the man who tried to murder me outside the Broadway Theatre in Barking on a winter's evening in 1989 had succeeded. He nearly did. I found it to be beautiful and inspiring and heartbreaking and funny and depressing all at once. Some secrets made me laugh, a few made me cry, I judged some, I felt like praying for others, but almost all made me feel something, and I think that's what I loved most about it. The book, and the project as a whole, touched me and elicited emotional reactions.

i spent this book not only marveling at (and feeling known by) the secrets of others, but also those of this person before me, who had donated this book without removing their markings. Post Secret Kazakhstan", a trilingual (Russian, Kazakh, and English) project was launched in January 2011 by a Peace Corps volunteer inspired by Frank Warren's original. It also has no official affiliation.The concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed. No restrictions are made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes and dreams. [1] But the book isn't one of the larger PostSecret books are there are some truly great secrets within. Ones that are strange, funny, sad and most importantly specific. The more specific a secret, the more meaningful it is when it touches a part of us. We thought that we would look cool to the high schoolers (through osmosis, evidently, as it was a secret questionnaire).

I have great difficulty dismissing the possibility that the submitters for this book were not operating under similar motives. However, Warren seems not to favour too many people and the score-settling escalates to industrial levels akin to Father Ted’s Golden Cleric acceptance speech. Boxing promoter rivals, especially father and son Barry and Eddie Hearn (“Eddie’s hardly had to do it the hard way”), are shown no mercy. Neither are boxers Barry McGuigan (“another who disappointed me”) and Chris Eubank, whose reputation Warren destroys with one hideous anecdote, while Frank Bruno’s ex-wife Laura is “an absolute pain”.When you were in the ICU I took your picture. I wanted you to see what you looked like, so that you might go to rehab. I never showed you the pictures, you never went into rehab and I never forgave myself. I am so sorry." McNichol, Tom (2007). "PostSecret". TIME.Com's First Annual Blog Index. Time . Retrieved 17 March 2014. On October 11, 2009, Warren took a break, posting a video and apology saying that he was busy touring, and urging readers to buy the book PostSecret Confessions on Life, Death and God. In April 2008, Warren teamed up with 1-800-suicide to answer some of these anonymous cries for help through peer run crisis hotlines on college campuses. [4]