Journals Books

This Book is great for kids who love to write thoughts, ideas, and drawings. Like I said, this is an awesome Book.

This book was great! It has all sorts of pages where you write about yourself. I like those sort of books where you have to fill in pages about yourself and what you like, etc, so thats why I got this book. I very highly reccamend it!

I loved this book so much! Everyone boys and especially girls should like this book more every time they read it!

I Like this book. I'm planning on getting an nother one. There so cool! Its good to take it out when ever you get board. Its a really great book! i know i like it! My friends love it two! The best thing of all at Amazon.com is all the sales!!!! Amelia books are so cool! I'm getting ameila hits the road book thats the next one in line!

This is a lovely display of an planner that any student can use. And for that reason is because, the little quotes in the planner help kids to remember the hardest phrases to the easiest. Buy this planner, it will not let you or your child down

this planner has really helped my kid in his classes. he has kept his grades up and this planner keeps track of what his assignments are so i can keep up with him, thanks my stuff planner.
joe
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As an educator with 38 years of experience working in public schools and with private schools, I give high marks to My Stuff Planner. It places responsibility on the shoulders of the student using the planner. It is easy to use. The format is simple yet highly structured. With the dates already in place, students can quickly record homework assignments and have a ready reference to the school year. The weekly check lists and places to list plans and goals help students establish study and work habits.

This book is truly a testament of time in the school system. These books help students organize themselves (and the little quotes are pretty cool, very inspiring). I think school systems should sell these books, they are far superior to the ones they currently have. This book shouts BUY ME!!

This journal is AWESOME I bought it years before I became a mother and I am so glad I did. The pictures are excellent. There is an envelope for a few small items. Very easy to open and write in. Every page has the Date_______ and then just lines so you never have to feel like you will run out of room. But the page is also set up so you can put a few different dates on the same page for short sweet memories. Im very busy but this journal is something I can spend a few mins a night to write down things I dont want to forget. Wonderful for mom or a gift for mom to be.

Being a parent is very hectic. You almost never have time to journal all those important moments in your babies development, but with the beautiful, adorable pictures in this journal, how could you help but make time to make use of this little book. It's an inspiration! I find myself opening it all the time just to look at what's inside and then I spend hours journaling all the great accomplishments of my child. This is a great buy!

This book is so beautiful, it's always easy to remember to write in it. I bought this book when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter & wrote in it throughout my pregnancy. It has lots of beautiful photos, plenty of pages to write on, and even keepsake envelopes for a lock of hair, etc. I was so excited to keep this journal for our baby that I just couldn't stop after she was born & competed the book during her 1st year. Now, I'm pregnant again & looking for a different Anne Geddes book for the new baby!

This is the sweetest thing I've ever seen. I love Anne Geddes work, and I don't have children yet, but I thought I would buy this so when that special time comes I will have the cutest keepsake journal around.

Kids 8 and up will enjoy the journal format giving them prompts to record special times spent with Grandma. For each of these days there is a place for Grandma's notes, pictures, and shared secret. Quirky questions are also provided for discussions starters. A fun way to keep those special memories.

Fantastic journal! Grandpa Bob can't wait until the author comes out with a "Grandpa" version. Anyone who has grandchildren will want, no need, this highly recommended book. Well worth twice the price. GET ONE NOW!!!

This is a wonderfully illustrated journal which allows Grandmas and their precious grandchildren to learn about each other. The questions are so dialogue-provoking.

I love this journal. There are so many neat questions that can be shared, especially when it comes to special secrets and secrets of the heart to share and remember forever.

I need to get more copies, because every mother and grandmother to be that I have shown it to wants my copy!!

Being a recipient and fan of Daniel Will-Harris' web column, "The Schmoozeletter" (www.schmoozeletter.com), I love his collection of true-to-his-life stories. He's like a West Coast Dave Barry who batters around his picturebook city of Point Reyes, California, and in a house with his wife and pet chinchillas. The stories are small events that have profound impact, such as how a crashing tree just misses him, or the slamming of a door leaves him naked outside. He makes us realize he and we are part of a crazy experiment on this blue ball with shifting white clouds.

Daniel Will-Harris is a renowned web designer, a font guru and prolific author of humorous slice-of-life essay. His twice-monthly web column schmoozeletter leaves tens of thousands of readers in stitches as Daniel pokes and prods everything from men and vacuums to the perils of getting locked out of your house naked. I bought his book and you should too. If you're not laughing out loud, you're simply not paying attention.

Reading about life from a designer's point of view is therapeutic--it's nice to know I'm not the only one who obsesses over the aesthetics of life. In his latest book, "My Wife and Times," Daniel Will-Harris, recounts the sometimes touching, often hilarious consequences of two graphic designers living in one house. If you're like me, you'll come away with some great laughs and a better appreciation for what it means to be a warm person in a cold world.

What's amazing about this book is that he can tell so much in a few pages. This is an author who has found his voice -- he is constantly surprising you with little twists and turns; each paragraph is a work of art.

He is:
Woody Allen without the self-indulgent complaining
Dave Barry but not so manic
David Sedaris but things you can relate to

I love this book; you will too!

I use this notebook for my journal. And since the pages are blank, the "reading level" comment isn't necessary. I love being free to write down whatever's on my mind. With free, independent spirits like *NSync, it's easy to do that in this notebook.
I bought this because I needed a new journal and I love *NSync, but since the journal has a hard cover and is spiral bound, the pages stay open easily and it doesn't get damaged. Both are bonuses to purchasing this notebook. I definetly recommend it.

My granddaughter LOVED THIS! SHE WRITES IN IT EVERY DAY! I'm so glad she i spleased with it and you would be too!

YOU MAY THINK THAT THIS IS AN ENTRY JOURNAL FILLED WITH A BUNCH OF JUICY 'N SYNC SECRETS AND GOSSIP BUT IT ISN'T. IT IS A COMPOSITION JOURNAL FILLED WITH LINED PAPER AND IS A GOOD USE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL PURCHASER. THE FRONT AND BACK HARD COVERS HAVE A GREAT GLOSSY PICTURE OF 'N SYNC. INSIDE THE COVERS, THERE ARE SOME GREAT CANDID PHOTOS OF THE GUYS. IT IS A GREAT 'N SYNC COLLECTOR'S ITEM. GREAT TO WRITE YOUR OWN LITTLE 'N SYNC SECRETS:)

This book (journal) is awsome and I love the picture on the front. Get it! It's all worth it!

I can't say much else except - you need at least one of these in your library. In the toolbox of every network engineer should be a journal, one that's kept up to date with problems and solutions that you run into on a daily basis. You'll save a lot of time and effort later on trying to remember "Gee, how did I fix that problem a year ago?". This is a nice hardcover bound book, and will stand the test of time. Buy some of these!

I have been using mine for a month. I wish I would of had one for the last 10 years. Go buy a few

The writing is really fine. Someone worked so hard on this manuscript. Very helpful book. A must read.

I really liked this book. I zoomed through it and understood every word. The explanation of virtual text on page 42 was especially good.

Contemplations visual, intellectual and spiritual. In 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin fled to the island of Tahiti - "a sixty-three days' voyage, sixty-three days of feverish expactancy;" begun as an unofficial visit regarding the imminent death of the island's king Pomare -- and resulting in a profoundly moving sea-change (spirit, observation, happiness). The Tahitian theology, natural history, and especially the progress of his relationships - a gift. This is a good book to read BEFORE embarking on your "desert island" voyage, but beware! Hard to top once you're there on some other island. An exceptional journal, with a graceful translation (it seems) by O. F. Theis from the French. Rated 9 (needs more color plates of paintings! but a lovely, portable paper edition) Other recommended travel/discovery books: Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia, by Mark Jenkins. 1993 HarperPerennial pb. Letters from Iceland, by W. H. Auden & Louis MacNeice. 1990 Paragon House pb. Why Come To Slaka? by Malcolm Bradbury. 1991 Penguin Books pb. Travels With Lizbeth (writing/homelessness), by Lars Eighner. The Starship & the Canoe (Freeman Dyson & son George) Bird of Jove (falconry), by David Bruce. 1994 Texas A&M pb. The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin Ishi (anthropology/Native American history), by Theodora Kroeber

Very readable translation. This is not the best edition if you want good reproductions of drawings. But in terms of getting a good text for a good price it's great.

I'm not really going to review the book itself as I assume most people who are here know that this was Gauguin's attempt to put together a what he hoped would be a best selling travelogue that would promote his art. He was hoping to cash in on the success of Pierre Loti's best seller the Marriage of Loti which was set in exotic Tahiti. It never made any money, but this is mostly because of it's idiosyncratic style. But for anyone interested in Gauguin's Tahitian experience it's great. Also check out his intimate journals which came out posthumously and cover also his life before Tahiti.

Typically considered a journal or memoir, Gauguin's book is in fact an early type of experimental multimedia novel. Thematically, Gauguin burlesques Pierre Loti's "Marriage of Loti", while structurally he interleaves narrative with his own highly-inventive Post-impressionist woodcarvings. It's a fine book: Gauguin could have been a great novelist, if he weren't already busy.

Though you may quarrel with Guaguin tactics or motivations, his art stands alone--brilliant, moving, subtle. It is always intriquing to hear the voice of a master painter and "Noa, Noa," affords that opportunity.

This book is scintillating and titillating. Kevin really brings the audience into his world...a world of confusion, humor, and a large bee-face. Well worth the read.

I am a personal Friend of Kevin Gordon. I have taken tennis lessons with him for five years. I was interested to know that his book had been published. I immediately began reading it the day it came out. I was at the book signing at a nearby Borders the first day also. I went home and began skimming it like I always do. It was great once I began reading. He used such intricate detail to get his point across. I was astonished to read about things that wouldn't even be thought about in the United States. He explained even the smallest things that really got to me. I have begun to apply some of the things that he talked about in his book to my everyday life. I would have never known about sharing a taxi cab if I had never read this book. Can You even picture sharing a taxi cab, or taking cold bucket showers, or even a steady flow of unselfishness? I have learned through this book that there is a truth out there somewhere and we must seek it in order to become better people.It has been wonderful reading this book and I encourage others to see eye to eye with me by reading this book also.

From the BEFORE:this book looks interesting. AFTER: that book had a profound effect on me file, I strongly recommend this book. Kevin Gordon(KG) documents a five-month wild ride through western central and southern Africa. This trip was a physical, spiritual, and psychological marathon that elucidated exteme emtional highs and lows for KG. He is a unique individual in a unique circunstance. He is a black man raised in Canada by Jamacian parents, and educated in prep schools and eventually Harvard; he seems to have no niche. Part of this trip was a search for identity. KG struggles with weighty issues such as slavery, neocolonialism, racism, and poverty in this wonderfully human prose, yet somehow never becomes preachy. In fact, the journal is peppered with a great sense of humor, often in the least expected places. Between pondering which one of his relatives was unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time while visiting Cape Coast (slave ship place) he searches for Dallas Cowboy updates, details his gastric indulgences(and frequent extreme hunger) and forms many amazing relationships. The boldest aspect of this books is KG's honesty with himself, and therefor his readers. He painfully acknowldeges his hypocrisies. Everybody has inconsistencies in their ideal beliefs versus their behaviors. Very few of us can admit them to ourselves yet alone publish them. The struggle with his desire for western comforts versus his desire to be a true African and take life in stride continues through the entire journal. The descriptions of the beauties of Africa, both the land itself and the harmony of the various cultures is as memorable as the extreme poverty and suffering he sees in Zaire. This book will open your eyes to the real Africa. KG's passion is to teach. He does a fine job of that through his journal.

Kevin Gordon's first book "Not Yet African" chronicles the author's four-month journey across the heart of Africa, from Senegal to Kenya, in 1993-1994. From the book's cover we learn that Kevin is from Winnipeg and well educated, that his skin is brown, and that he is unsure of his place in the world. We learn that he feels neither African nor American nor Black nor White nor Ivy League, and we wonder as he does 'Who is this man?' Kevin explored Africa as a shy and soft spoken young person looking into the roots of himself and of the continent that he hoped to call home, and 'Not Yet African' is a close transcription of the journal he kept there. His descriptions of Africa are excellent (seven days of waiting for a train that never comes and wondering if he'll get his passport back from the police!), and as a travel story 'Not Yet African' is a good read. But what makes this book special is the clarity and power with which Kevin describes the lifeblood of Africa and his own yearning to be part of it. Kevin lays his soul bare for us in this book, and his courageous writing alone is worth the time it takes to read it. Kevin may be neither African nor American, but in Nigeria and Cameroon and Zaire and Kenya he finds something, a place for his heart, a home for his soul, or at least one of the rivers which has given him life. 'Not Yet African' is a very personal tale about the grief of losing roots and the hope of finding them again, and I learned alot from it. I hope that others will read it and find in Kevin's words a thread common with their own, for this is how healing happens. We're all from someplace, even if we don't have a name for it yet.

My brother served in the 1st Marines in World War II and was killed in the 2nd day of the invasion of Peleliu. My impression (from 55 years away from the event) is that very few historians or people understand the horrific battle that occurred on that island. I have read the book several times, and it gives a view from the front line Marine that has seldom been published in other battle descriptions. There is a video of Peleliu that I have in my possession that is a vivid and sad account of this campaign.

My brother in law, recently deceased, enlisted in the Corps on December 8, 1941, and after basic at Parris Island was attached to the 1st Batt., 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. In short, he was one of The Old Breed First Marines in every respect. We talked many times about Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu where he got the "million dollar wound" that rotated him home for the duration. Once a marine, always a marine (this was my dad's view, as well as my brother-in-laws). My father was also a gyrene who just missed WWII because of age, and because he was engaged in serious war industry work during the entirety of the conflict, but because he was an ex-marine (to the extent there are ex-marines), we were dedicated followers of the Pacific campaign from beginning to end. Be that as it may, The Old Breed is a riveting account documenting the hell those campaigns must have been. My Brother in law suffered from the effects of malaria for years, and whenever his bones ached, he blamed it on dengue fever that was also rampant on Guadalcanal. He recalled Bloody Ridge vividly, along with Washing Machine Charlie and the Tokyo Express dumping naval ordinance on their heads nearly every night, but as bad as Guadalcanal was, he always thought Peleliu was worse. He said, and I'm sure it's true, that it was sheer hell - trying to scrape a shallow foxhole out of coral, and fighting a dug-in enemy in terrain that looked like the back side of the moon. I think my dad was seriously disapppointed when I didn't join the Corps, but during the Korean war I was just a squid who was never truly placed in harms way. But I have always had a fondness for the Corps, and I'm sure there were none better than The Old Breed. One thing is certain - they did their time in hell, and are now guarding the streets of heaven.

THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL SONS WHO HAD A FATHER THAT WAS IN THE FIRST MARINE DIVISION THAT SAW ACTION. IT TELLS YOU EXACTLY WHAT YOUR FATHER OR GRANDFATHER EXPERIENCED IN BATTLE. THESE MEN WENT THROUGH SOME OF THE TOUGHEST ENVIROMENTS YOU GOOD IMAGINE,ESPECIALLY AT GUADALCANAL,NEW GUINEA, NEW BRITIAN AND PELELIU. IT REALLY TOUCH MY HEART AFTER READING THIS BOOK,ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CAN'T GET MANY MARINES THAT WENT THROUGH THIS TO TALK ABOUT IT. THESE MARINES DESERVE A WWII MEMORIAL WALL.

My brother in law, recently deceased, enlisted in the Corps on December 8, 1941, and after basic at Parris Island was attached to the 1st Batt., 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. In short, he was one of The Old Breed First Marines in every respect. We talked many times about Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu where he got the "million dollar wound" that rotated him home for the duration. Once a marine, always a marine (this was my dad's view, as well as my brother-in-laws). My father was also a gyrene who just missed WWII because of age, and because he was engaged in serious war industry work during the entirety of the conflict, but because he was an ex-marine (to the extent there are ex-marines), we were dedicated followers of the Pacific campaign from beginning to end. Be that as it may, The Old Breed is a riveting account documenting the hell those campaigns must have been. My Brother in law suffered from the effects of malaria for years, and whenever his bones ached, he blamed it on dengue fever that was also rampant on Guadalcanal. He recalled Bloody Ridge vividly, along with Washing Machine Charlie and the Tokyo Express dumping naval ordinance on their heads nearly every night, but as bad as Guadalcanal was, he always thought Peleliu was worse. He said, and I'm sure it's true, that it was sheer hell - trying to scrape a shallow foxhole out of coral, and fighting a dug-in enemy in terrain that looked like the back side of the moon. I think my dad was seriously disapppointed when I didn't join the Corps, but during the Korean war I was just a squid who was never truly placed in harms way. But I have always had a fondness for the Corps, and I'm sure there were none better than The Old Breed. One thing is certain - they did their time in hell, and are now guarding the streets of heaven.