Tattoo Chronicles:
History Written in Ink
Tattoo Chronicles: History Written in Ink explores the endurance of tattoos as a cultural and personal expression, starting with the indigenous natives and ending with personal stories of individuals and their tattoos. This book shows that ultimately, tattoos are a biographical map steeped in tradition and ritual.
Ready or Not, Here I Come! :
The Children of Queens Blvd.
It’s 1950’s New York. “Ready or Not, Here I Come: The Children of Queens Blvd.” takes Baby Boomers on a voyage through words and images back to the simpler times of their childhoods, evoking memories of growing up in a modest apartment building when your neighborhood was your entire world. Set in the context of the cultural and political times that defined the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, these resilient youngsters adapted as the world they knew radically changed. But they were prepared, and many became successful, and a few became famous.
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A Word From The Author
What started as an effort to understand my own child through his body art has
led me on a fantastic journey through history. Tattoos have alternated between being fashionable and stigmatized. However, one constant remains: tattoos are permanent, and so they represent something significant enough to inform that choice.
Susan Altman
Author's Books
I hope to enlighten my readers and help them gain a better understanding of tattoos, helping them to open their minds and learn to accept tattoos and appreciate them just as I did..
What Readers Are Saying
Susan Leiderman Altman’s book, Ready or Not, Here I Come! is a unique memoir sharing her life growing up in Forest Hills Queens in a modest housing project, which along with Forest Hills High School becomes a
microcosm of baby boomers shaping and taking on a new world. Chapters take the names of 1950s song titles. We walk into the lives of Jewish kids gaining the skills to take the world by storm. Their stories and the author’s story become pieces cultural history. I couldn’t put this book down. I hope you’ll read it.
Stephanie Hart
Review on Ready or Not, Here I Come!
Queens Boulevard is a bustling neighborhood consisting of many six story, red brick apartment buildings, a bunch of small mom and pop stores and little girls playing Potsy on the sidewalk streets. And so our story begins . . .
READY OR NOT, HERE I COME! is a memoir written by Susan Leiderman Altman that takes us on a journey through her life as a child growing up in Queens in the 1950’s. The book is filled with many wonderful memories and interesting facts that took place during that time in our history.
Reading Susan’s memoir sent me back in time and filled me with feelings of nostalgia for my own childhood adventures and experiences.
Thank you Susan Leiderman Altman for sharing your wonderful walk down memory lane. I enjoyed every page of it and I’m happy to give you five stars!!!
Elaine Drohan
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Book was great! Well written, easy read and interesting!
Maxwell
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This is a great book for those who grew up in Brooklyn.
Anonymous
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