PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God

FRANK WARREN PUBLISHES CONFESSIONS OF LIFE, DEATH, AND GODPostSecret Educates and Illuminates Suicide Prevention & FundraisingThere are many routes into the PostSecret universe - museum exhibitions, a friend's social media feed, browsing in a bricks and mortar bookstore or online bookseller and the proverbial grapevine. The brainchild of Frank Warren, PostSecret's core mission is raising awareness and funds for suicide prevention via book sales, events and donations.September 4 through 8, 2011 marks the 37th annual National Suicide Prevention week and world suicide prevention day takes place September 10. The most chilling and recent statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ranks suicide among the top ten causes of death in the United States.Confessions on Life, Death, and God is the fifth book in the PostSecret series. Best described in Warren's own words, "This book was inspired by a collection of more than three hundred postcards that were part of an exhibition at the American Visionary Museum called "All Faiths Beautiful. The never-before-seen secrets between these pages were chosen to expose the common landscape of our private lives - from our embarrassing desires to our hidden acts of kindness; from the private prayers of atheists to the voiceless doubt of believers."Each genre-bending tome is too beautiful to hide on a bookshelf and too intense to leave alongside the toilet. The bedrock of PostSecret and the series of books are the hauntingly exquisite anonymous postcards. Messages tear at the reader's gut and tears tumble freely. Only apathetic stoics escape the searing pain of the sender. Cathartic for the writer and the reader, affixing a stamp or hitting send frees one from the agony and rage so often the tipping point into self-destructive behavior.The startling messages and images are in many languages, across ethnicities, religions, and borders. Geography, age, sex, and sexual orientation are at once divergent and deeply unifying.A gray and white rendering of a map depicting two people on different continents bears the French phrase, "Nous Allons trover une solution," which translates to "We'll find a solution." A page of death notices is the background of a card reading "I check the obituaries everyday hoping my ex-boyfriend is dead." And the terrifying message "If it said yes. I was going to kill myself" emblazoned over the image of a pregnancy test wand. These are a few of the extraordinary emotions and fears raging on the pages of Confessions on Life, Death, and God.On the horizon is the PostSecret App where users will connect with like-minded people, read and share anonymous secrets and access the ominous images and text.Frank Warren began PostSecret as a community art project in 2004. To date more than half-million secrets have landed in Warren's real life mailbox and a quarter-billion people have visited the organization's website.Confessions on Life, Death, and GodFrank Warren © 2009Designed by Joy O'MearaISBN 978-0-06-185933-5

These Post Secret books are very good. You will enjoy your book also.

I love taking time to really read and reflect on my own problems with each of these books. I bought this in October of 2009 and just feeling empathy for the people behind these cards helped me get through my own struggles. I gave the original book I bought to a friend, buying it again after a few years took me right back to that feeling.

I don't read these very often but i have kept a space on my bookshelf for the post secret books. Whenever I am down and overly burdened with life I take a look at one of the collections of beautifully crafted postcards with their poigniant secrets and realize that I am not alone. It may sound cheesy but if only for a moment it helps. I especially like the more portable nature of the new book so it's easy to stash in a purse or a bookbag and since several pages in previous books were taken up with responses to postcards or notes from frank it really didn't seem like you got any less secrets than the bigger version. The same secrets are often printed in multiple books such as the fear of growing up or of being alone or of wanting to be loved but I find that the repetition does not become monotonous but rather makes it more honest and communicates the universality of our desires as human beings and reinforces a sense of connection with one another. Overall, I highly recommend this or any other post secret book.

Best headphones i've owned so far. I LVOE the fact I'm no longer tethered to my devices. controls on the sides are easy to use/handy for skipping/volume contrl while leaving my ipod in a pocket. battery life/connection to devices is great, they rarely die on me with normal use/being plugged in at night. sadly the band snapped (probably from falling asleep with them on in bed). luckily i'm handy and fashioned an elastic headband for them with a little modifications to them which works great (they will NOT fall off ever again, which was a problem with the band) the ear cups come apart in two pieces which made the mods pretty easy. I can see using these for a while still. definitely recommend them. sound quality is pretty good as well.

The book is great! I love reading all of the secrets. Some made me tear up. Some made me laugh. Highly recommended!Very pleased with my new book. It is in perfect condition. I was surprised with the cost. It was VERY reasonable considering the "new" price. I am glad I found it when I did. I have been wanting to read these books for a while. Since the book was at a great price, I was able to purchase the other books as well. I am pleased with my purchase and will definitely be back. Thank you for the quick delivery!

I've always liked the PostSecret website, and I'm jealous I didn't think of it first. :)As with the other collections of secrets published by Frank, it's an excellent presentation. The book is high quality, and indeed postcard sized; it makes reading the secrets easier, though it's a bit harder to stack them on your bookshelf. The theme for this collection is very well explored, and we have a broad selection of secrets to read through. It must have been very difficult to work out which ones to use (and which to cut).If you like the site, this book, and the rest, are essential. They're great conversation starters, and make excellent gifts too!

This is a great book. It is a compilation of postsecrets that have been on the website as well as some new ones that haven't been on the site at all. I love the concept behind postsecret and find the books inspiring, touching, sad, hopeful, and many things. They can lift my mood, ease my pain or guilt, and make me feel like everyone else. We aren't alone in our thoughts/secrets.The only reason I am giving this 4 stars is that i felt the book was way to short. I read it in one sitting in just a couple of hours. I really believe that there could be much more to these books.Highly recommend

A wonderful collection of very personal moments. Poignant, humorous and eye opening are just some of the words that describe this book. Excellent quality. Well packaged and I will certainly be buying more publications from the Post Secret collection.

Big fan of the post secret website and was overjoyed when I found out they did books compiled with many many post secrets. Hours of laughter and emotional secrets to pass any time of the day.

The book is in great condition and so interesting to read.

love the postcard sized books, feels more authentic

My niece wanted this and she really loved it so happy with my purchase. Good service from supplier. She still has it so must be good.