In lieu of the normal ‘Cool Thing Wednesday’ post, we have a ‘Joyful Thing’. While this post could be about Mike Monteiro’s How To Die (And Other Stories), which is great and you should get it, it is a collected edition of his mailing list which I have covered before.

No, what this is about is A) the mailer, B) the inside packaging.

The world needs more Disco Ball Pink Mailers. I knew the book was coming any day from tracking, but that mailer itself just brought me so much joy when I saw it in the mailbox. It is perfect. A sparkly bit of joy in our worst timeline hellscape. (Which I am sure was exactly the intention. Mission accomplished.)

And then, when you open it up, its wrapped again and blurbed … by his wife. Which is fantastic. (As is she – buy her books too!)

He didn’t have to wrap it in tissue paper. And I’m sure this mailer cost more than a standard craft paper one. But I’m quite glad he did.

Disco ball Pink Mailer

Not A Total Bummer

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