Tag: Adventure

Ponderings

The Flower Letters #3

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If you’re reading this, you received your fourth Norah Aven Flower Letter which contains the third secret message

Listen, I’m just going to be blunt at this point…

These are fricken stupid. The author wasted 53 words and a heck of a lot of my time to say “talk to Samir Anju.”

This Uncle Jack guy is a joke. He’s wasting his niece’s precious time, while her life is in danger, I might add, to write wordy little messages with absolutely no point to them.

“Trust no one” no shit, Sherlock, you should have told her that from the beginning.

These messages are making me unnecessarily angry. But I can handle bad writing much better when I don’t have to work for it. 😆

Anyway, here you go, you lucky reader benefiting off my sweat and frustration.

This has been,

FTC

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Ponderings

The Flower Letters #2

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Well, if you’ve received your third letter of the Norah Aven Chronicles, then you’ll have your second secret message from Uncle Jack.

Who is an utter prick.

Seriously, you’re writing secret messages to your niece who’s in danger and you spend your precious words writing DRIVEL???

This is what gets under my skin ever time I start decoding. It makes me UNNECESSARILY vengeful that I’m once again 10 years old at the kitchen table with a cereal box prize promising a secret message with a decoder ring and the message, after dutiful minutes of decoding is:

“Congratulations! You decoded the secret message!

And 10 year old me is sitting there burning the disappointment so deep in my brain that as I sit here, now at 33, I can feel it seeping out of the cracks to soak into my brain, dripping down my spine to fill my chest with rage.

It’s dramatic, I know. But I am nothing if not ✨dramatic.✨

So here you go, my cheat sheet. I hope you’re enjoying The Flower Letters thus far. I absolutely adore them.

Except for this part… This part can go rot in Heck.

Yours truly,

FTC

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Books and Affiliated

The Flower Letters

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Can you believe it? I’m so pissed off at poorly written secret codes, that it brought me back to my blog, haha!

I purchased a series of Flower Letters from an Instagram ad. This one is the Norah Aven Chronicles. I’m 3 letters in and so far, they are fun, creative, and interesting. I’m not here to trash the author. I think her business is incredibly awesome and I’ll be purchasing more for sure.

BUT… And here’s the nuisance. This story has a decoder key and each letter provides a secret message from one character to another. This was absolutely thrilling at first, until I started decoding the first message. It threw me aaalll the way back to middle school when cereal boxes had toys and one was a decoder ring or something. I’m pretty sure Calvin & Hobbes even has a comic strip about this specific toy.

The “secret message” they always gave you was some drivel like “congratulations! You’ve decoded the message!” And even as a kid, I felt terrible miffed by the let down.

Well, here I am as an adult TERRIBLY MIFFED that these secret messages I’m wasting time and brain matter on are ABSOLUTELY USELESS DRIVEL. If I could say anything to the author (besides I LOVE YOU, THIS IS AWESOME, PLEASE KEEP WRITING MORE LETTERS) it would be:

… For real? … You thought these messages were a good idea? Who is your editor? I would like to slap them.

So here I am, saving some annoyed reader the frustration of decoding yet another useless message.

And, trust me, I thought about ignoring them all together…

But I can’t.

Curiosity always gets the best of me.

Every two weeks, I’ll receive a new letter. And every two weeks, I’ll decode it and post it here.

I hope you find this when you need it.

This has been,

FTC

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