The bear-suit guy was recruited from the "Missed Connections" book — "We shared a bear suit at an apartment party Saturday night," someone wrote of him on Craigslist — while most of the other 33 characters in the piece were inspired by straphangers she saw.
Books are stored "safely in the digital cloud," so they're accessible from most devices with an Internet connection; and books can be downloaded to be read offline as well.
A connection, via books, between them and me.
The general connection to books can create feelings that may include losing, or indeed finding yourself.
Everything in Josh's life -- from his Mormon upbringing to finally finding love to learning to control his tics through lifting -- circles back to a close connection to books.
"Scrooge: The Musical," has a local connection: its book, music and lyrics are all by a Tarrytown resident, Philip David Stern.
In June she used the Virtuoso connection to book two rooms for next Christmas at a five-star resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for a customer who could not find the same kind of space through another agency.
And, not to make this complicated or anything, the operas-turned-into-movies that were being talked about at the party after a concert by the Eos Orchestra the other night also have connections to books.
Appropriately titled "The Bulgari Connection," the book includes a plot involving the sale of a painting containing a Bulgari necklace, vivid descriptions of pieces made by the Italian jeweler and one character obsessed by Bulgari's overwhelming aesthetic.
He went on to relate an incident involving MacKenzie during his editorship of The Sun when the paper acquired the serial rights to Scotland Yard's cocaine connection, a book co-written in 1990 by Jennings, Paul Lashmar and Vyv Simson.
