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Our mothers always told us to write thank you notes. We tried, with varying degrees of success, to send cards thanking our aunts and uncles for their well-intentioned birthday gifts and write notes to our friends’ parents post-sleepover. But remember those kids who would always turn out immaculate thank you notes a day after they got the present? Not us. Oh well, we were good at different things. But Leah Dieterich is good at thank yous. Her blog, thxthxthx, is a “daily exercise in gratitude,” where she posts her witty, genuine thank you notes daily, acknowledging everything from wine to the noises her radiator makes. Here are a few of our favorite thank you notes — thank you notes to Dieterich’s favorite authors, of course. Don DeLillo, we hope you’re listening.

Dear Don DeLillo:

Dear Junot Diaz:

Dear Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly:

Dear Haruki Murakami:

Okay, we couldn’t help ourselves. Here are a couple more, not exactly to authors, but more to books in general. Look, just ask Mom, it’s not like you can have too many thank you notes.

Dear Infinite Jest:

Dear Books: