End of the Week Links — 9/21

by Kelly

One of the latest secrets on Post Secret. I'm really looking forward to the Office Season 5 premiere!

One of the latest secrets on Post Secret. I'm really looking forward to the Office Season 5 premiere!

–> If you’re an avid reader, you might like Book Mooch. It’s essentially a book swap, with a directory of books available to swap. Either request a book or post a book that you are finished reading. The site works on a points system, so that people can tell who is serious about swapping and who isn’t. As far as I can tell, there are a lot of great books available on the site.

–> My old favorite site, Group Hug, is back up and running! This makes me very excited. Group Hug is an anonymous confession site, similar to Post Secret. However, instead of mailing in a postcard, you just type your confession to the site (as many different ones as you want), and it will show up eventually on the site. I find reading through the confessions to be rather therapeutic (as well as confessing a few myself).

–> On the same vein as Group Hug and Post Secret, there is One Sentence. I don’t know why, but I am drawn to anonymous sites like these. I feel the honesty & candor of people using the sites is pretty inspirational. This site in particular lets people tell a story about their lives using one sentence. Here are a few of my favorites (taken from the front page):


It was when my freshman year roommate asked where my summer house was that I realized I’d never fit in at college.


I lost my virginity in a fraternity bunk bed, I lost my dignity on the fire escape the next morning, and I lost my sanity buying the pregnancy test the next month.


My dad slammed the balsa-wood battleship he spent 1000 hours building against the wall when he had found we kids ruined it by floating it in the rain water.

Hope you all had a great weekend!