Would You Publish 12 Years of Your Text Messages in A Book?

Would you publish twelve years of your life in a book for anyone and everyone to read? Well, that’s what Tracey Moberly has done. Her book, Text Me Up!, takes over 60,000 text messages that she has sent and received throughout her life and weaves them into a narrative about her life. It is supposed to be an autobiography of her life, but a fairly unorthodox one. The book is 336 pages of text messages, illustrations, and narratives about Tracey Moberly’s life. It also includes commentary about the text message conversations. It isn’t just filled with threads of text messages, they are selected and composed in a way that is supposed to make them interesting. I can’t even imagine how she would have saved all of these text messages, or how they can be interesting enough to publish into a book. Even if I did send or receive an interesting text message, I probably wouldn’t want to publish it for the entire world to see. I can’t even imagine how this woman finds all these people to text, I mean, 60,000 text messages?! Apparently, the book also includes text messages from celebrities. Well, in case you find this sort of thing interesting, I encourage you to buy Text Me Up! and comment on it, because I certainly don’t think I would find it interesting to read over 300 pages of someone else’s text messages. The book is available now.