Journals Books

When i was looking for a book on journaling i wanted a book that would explain jounaling and give me guidelines and ideas.this book by Dr.Neimark not only did all that,it has amazing insights as well.The HandBook of Journaling is not only easy to use and understand,it makes journaling easy and fun. Dr Neimark is a talented ,insightful and caring writer and i would recommend this book to everyone , new or experienced in journaling. If there is one book you are going to buy on journaling-THIS IS IT!It is a great read and a wonderful experience,THANKS Dr Neimark

I've known about journaling for a long time, and I've used it for my own personal work and in workshops with others. But I learned a lot more about it from Dr. Neimark. In his very accessible, clear, friendly style, he describes and differentiates several excellent methods of journal writing, and how and why the technique is so effective for people working on self-discovery and change. I think this book is a must for anyone in the market for a serious attitude change from the inside out.

This book is a beautifully written way to journal to your inner self! Of all the self help books I have read (that is many) this one beats them all! ""Finally"" a book to help guide a person to the inner depths of the soul. Only one chapter about the author's life and his way of journaling. The rest is exactly what the Table of Contents states. Simple and precise examples and questions to help you in the reader's search for love and acceptance of oneself and the outside world! To help change our own view of our world and help to deal with life issues. Wonderful! A book I have been longing for for a long time! Sums up all those self help books! Well worth every cent because it will save me in the long run!!! If your looking for what Dr Phil talks about...This is your book! Already opening me up to another side of inner self (only read 3 chapters) and haven't written a word yet!!! The author has summed up a lot of what he has read and is doing in his own life into this book for others search for happiness! A MUST BUY!!!!

I highly reccommend this product. I homeschool my boys. We use Saxon Math, but they get bored of doing it all the time. I also have many other math manipulatives that we supplement Saxon with. This one is my boys' favorite!! They love it! They are only 9 years old, and the equations they are able to easily solve using the methods in this program are amazing. It gives kids a great beginning foundation for the algebra they will be introduced to later in school.

My third grader LOVES this system! She actually asks to "play" Hands On Equations... If your child loves math - or is afraid of it - get this system. It works.

I have found this to be an excellent concrete learning experience for elementary students. They are given enough concrete that the abstract comes easier.

Since the pictures don't show whether the backs and fronts of pages are lined, as a lefty I wanted to write on both sides or just the backs, and this journal does have lines on both sides. The binding folds flatter than most, and the quality is very high. Would recommend to anyone for anything that they want to write down.

I love these journals. They first came to my notice when I was given one as a gift. The binding is beautiful and practical -- the journals open flat, making for easy writing. The smooth page surface allows my pen to flow.

My favorite feature is the little pocket on the inside of the back cover, for storing scraps of brilliance.

It's sometimes difficult to know until you hold a journal in your hands if its quality is worthy of your thoughts. Curious about this series of blank books, I located one in a Border's store so I could examine it closely, and was sold (though I actually bought several of various styles through Amazon due to the greatly reduced price and wide selection).

Just wanted to reassure any curious journal-keepers that this is a very nice book for having paper binding. The surfaces of the front and back plates are silky smooth, taut and very pretty. The spine, being sewn with strings, is tight, yet allows the book to lay completely flat when open. The pages inside are very smooth, practically non-porous grain, and of a medium weight, thick enough for fine-tip pen-and-ink, but too thin for any other medium of drawing or writing element. I'm usually a fan of leather-bound journals because they're sturdier and more aesthetically pleasing to me, but as paper-bound journals go, these are among the nicest I've seen.

I RECOMMEND THIS FINE BOOK (WORK BOOK) FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO EITHER BEGIN JOURNALING OR GET TO KNOW THEMSELVES BETTER; MAYBE LEARN WHAT ONE MAY WANT TO CHANGE IN THEIR LIFE OR NOT.

This terrific little book is as good as you make it! The suggested journal entries really help walk you through, step-by-step, in getting to understand yourself better. It helped me realize what made me tick -- and see some things I can change.

I've always been an avid journal-keeper, but I know many people have a hard time getting started on the process. I have suggested many books, web sites, etc., to a friend, but she always had a hard time just begining. I gave her this book, and she just took off! What a gift it is to be able to help someone begin this wonderful process.

When my book arrived today I couldn't wait to get into it and see what all was included and to see the Great images I have heard so much about.
Let me list the things I loved:
1)the vintage-inspired set up and illustrations, they are simply charming and make you feel like you are filling out a high-end baby book, without paying a High-end price.
2)The included growth chart (I listed a photo in the customer photos section) I had NO idea that it was going to be a full 3 foot tall chart that I could hang on my wall! It's adorable.
3)It's gender neutral... even though we already know we are having a baby girl, it was nice to know that it would work EASILY for both.
4)It actually has room on seperate pages for you to put a picture of each month (1 - 12) and a little note about the highlights of the month. And,
5)There is a little envelope attached to the first haircut page for a lock of hair to go into. :)

Now, the only bad thing, is that there is no doctor page, so, you can't document their height and weight at each visit in the book... but there is a pocket in the back cover so that if you want to, you can list them and keep them in the pocket for safe keeping that's my plan.

All in all, I love it and would recommend to anyone!!

I cannot believe how cute this book is. It is kitchy and has personality and room for you to be a little creative. I personally needed structure with my baby book because if left to my own devices, nothing would get done and this book provides just that. The illustrations are adorable (the little fox in pajamas literally made me squeal with delight) and it comes with a growth chart and a little envelope for the first haircut. I bought it with the companion photo album and they are both outstanding.

The Hello Baby! Baby Book is a much more creative, sophisticated keepsake journal than any I have ever seen. We received it as a gift at a baby shower and we love it; we know our daughter will appreciate it when she's old enough to wonder about her first year. The illustrations by Eunice Moyle are beautiful and original. The book blends pages to record memories, such as baby's first smile or baby's first tooth, with pages for photos and other keepsake material. It also does not overwhelm parents with too much to do, important for new, busy, sleep-deprived parents. I highly recommend it!

This is a WONDERFUL album. I really loved the idea of putting the photos in by means of actual photo corners. It seems so sweet and delicate. And Keep-sakey :)
I was thrilled with the page illustration and excited that I had both the photo album and journal.
It's so sweet and vintage inspired that it automatically makes you feel like you really have something special. I think it is a GREAT gift and it's gender-friendly style is perfect for ANY baby!!

I received this photo album and the accompanying memory album at one of my baby showers, and it was one of the best gifts I received. It's sweetly and beautifully designed. The drawings are original and creative and the book comes with photo corners attached in the back to ensure you actually remember to put the photos in the album.

A beautiful book and album, if you like things that look as if they are from a bye-gone era.

I love this postcards as this is one of the best postcards-related stuffs
that is available. The postcards of Hello Kitty in many disguises with their own "haikus" certainly a very charming way to capture your heart, especially those who love this traditional Japanese poetry and with an extra cuteness that is Hello Kitty!:-))

Highly recommended for those who loves this cat with no mouth!

I was very pleased with this purchase. These Postcards are the Bomb. Great quality. I love thrm

This is too cute and too "purrfect" to use. I'll have to order another box to send cause I want to keep mine in mint condition! This is a superior product at a reasonable price. Hello Kitty is shown in varied settings: Paris, the tropics, swimming pool, pumpkin patch, flying an airplane, etc. Harry Abrams is the publisher and they make a lot of quality products. I am very critical and do not recommend things lightly. Highly recommended!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir of a fascinating but so troubled human being. As a Catholic myself, I am especially impressed by how wonderful the people who surrounded Herculine were. Here these simple people were faced with a most complex and mystifying problem and they treated Herculine with so much kindness. As all were Catholics, I enjoy this memoir as a fine Catholic book.

The question of Herculine Barbin is one of profound impact within the realm of M. Foucault's work. Placed within the central problematic of "The Body" the question is not explored anywhere else within the book but in M. Foucault's introduction. The book plays out the vital issues. The subtitle tells it all: "Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite." - The problem is executed and explored in this book within the framework of the "Archive" - of 4 parts. The book is divided into M. Foucault's introduction, Barbin's Memoirs, The Dossier, and Oscar Panizza's "A Scandal at the Convent." M. Foucault begins his introduction with:

"Do we truly need a true sex? With a persistence that borders on stubbornness, modern Western societies have answered in the affirmative. They have obstinately brought into play this question of a "true sex" in an order of things where one might have imagined that all that counted was the reality of the body and the intensity of its pleasures."

Here he sets up the problematic that sexuality revolves around institutions of power - the law, the church, the medical establishment, and society in general. Within this framework, sexuality then ceases to be a continuum and falls subject to our ever changing moods. Where exactly does a Hermaphrodite fit in, in all this? Is the Hermaphrodite male with female qualities? Is the reverse true? Who decides? What is the impact of what is decided? This is what the book tries to explore. The Dossier is a collection of the socially constructed perspectives - similar to "I Pierre Riviere..." (Also available on Amazon.com) before it; the editors take aim at the various perspectives and conclusions drawn by people within the framework of Power/Knowledge. We see how Barbin is constructed - outside of his/her voice (his/her voice we get from part 2 - "My Memoirs"). The memoirs paint a painful story of one's struggle to fit in within a very unforgiving structure that would allow Barbin to be neither a "girl" nor a "boy". It paints a tragic figure of a person torn within this framework to conform, to "be". Lastly, Oscar Panizza's "A Scandal at the Convent" is a fabrication, a poor rendition that stretches the Barbin story from the medico-legal issue that it is to one of sheer erotica. The movie that follows is an abomination to the archive the M. Foucault and his ilk uncover. Or is it simply a portrayal of the "edge" that discourse has in terms of Power/Knowledge. M. Foucault writes:

"The result is indeed remarkable. Panizza kept a few important elements of the case: the very name of Alexina, the scene of the medical examination. For a reason I have trouble grasping-perhaps because, relying on his memories of his reading without having Tardieu's book at hand, he availed himself of another study of a similar case that he had at his disposal-he altered the medical reports. But the most radical changes were those he made in the whole narrative. He transposed it in time; he altered many material elements and the entire atmosphere; and, above all, he took it out of the subjective mode and put it into objective narration. He gave everything a certain "eighteenth-century" manner: Diderot and his Religieuse do not seem far off. There is a rich convent for girls of the aristocracy, a sensual mother superior who shows an equivocal affection for her niece, intrigues and rivalries among the nuns, an erudite and skeptical abbe, a credulous country priest, and peasants who go - after the devil with their pitchforks. Throughout, there is a skin - deep licentiousness and a semi-naive play of not entirely innocent beliefs, which are just as far removed from the provincial seriousness of Alexina as they are from the baroque violence of The Council of Love.
But in inventing this whole landscape of perverse gallantry, Panizza deliberately leaves in the center of his narrative a vast area of shadow and that is precisely where he places Alexina. Sister, mistress, disturbing schoolgirl, strayed cherub, male and female lover, faun running in the forest, incubus stealing into the warm dormitories, hairy-legged satyr, exorcized demon-Panizza presents her only in the fleeting profiles which the others see. This boy-girl, this never eternal masculine-feminine, is nothing more than what passes at night in the dreams, the desires, and the fears of everyone. Panizza chose to make her only a shadowy figure, without an identity and without a name, who vanishes at the end of the narrative leaving no trace. He did not even choose to fix her with a suicide, whereby she would become a corpse, like Abel Barbin, to which curious doctors in the end assigned the reality of an inadequate sex.
I have brought these two texts together, thinking they deserved to be published side by side, first of all because both belong to the end of the nineteenth century, that century which was so powerfully haunted by the theme of the hermaphrodite-somewhat as the eighteenth century had been haunted by the theme of the transvestite."

In the end, the tragedy of Barbin allows one to take a step away from the theoretical to see the real impact all this power relations have. I revisit M. Foucault when he concludes his introduction:

"Most of the time, those who relate their change of sex belong to a world that is strongly bisexual; and their uneasiness about their identity finds expression in the desire to pass over to the other side-to the side of the sex they desire to have and in whose world they would like to belong. In this case, the intense monosexuality of religious and school life fosters the tender pleasures that sexual non-identity discovers and provokes when it goes astray in the midst of all those bodies that are similar to one another."

Pause. Think. Consider.

Miguel Llora

I had the pleasure of reading this novel for a college class, and I must admit that it was psychologically stimulating in one sense, and poignant in another sense. The fact that the story is actually based on true events makes the novel all the more appealing.

I bought my copy when it came out in the 70's. I love it and use it every christmas. I have just bought 3 more copies so all three of my sons families have this book. It is one of the best Candy Cookbooks I ever found. Had helpers this year and now need to find another couple of books for them. This is a must have candy book for my family. I just wish they could or would reprint this book.

Recipes for every type of candy in the world is in this cookbook. The book gives a list of equipment needed for candy making, most of which are already in everyone's kitchen. The ingredients are easy to find. The color pictures in the book illustrate how the candy should look, and almost every recipe has a brief description (i.e., for Chocolate Fudge Velvet--"Creamy, luscious, smooth-as-velvet, classic fudge--sweet perfection"). Even the novice cook can find recipes to make that are easy and delicious.

This older cookbook (been around since at least 1970..) is the best for making really good candies. Recipes are not difficult and are classics, for the most part, the kind of candy that friends and family members will remember once they've been fortunate enough to have someone make it for them, the kind grandma and great grandma used to make. I've been using this cookbook since the mid-'70s, mainly for holiday candy-making, and if I didn't show up with certain recipes from this cookbook at family gatherings, (such as the Napoleon Cremes, Swiss Nougat Bars, and Cotlets), I doubt I'd be let in the door. If you want to create real candy with old fashioned flavor, get this book. If you're looking for California Cuisine, or if you're looking for something pretentious and trendy, go elsewhere, because all you'll find here are simply delicious candies that will disappear as soon as they're offered.

WOW! I picked up this book at a writer's conference. I have kept a journal for years (well, 30 years to be exact), and found much inspiration in Klugs book.

The chapter "Caring for Your Soul" outlines the step-by-step process of meditating on scripture and journaling about the verses the Holy Spirit illuminates within you. "Begin reading slowly and stop when a word or phrase seems highlighted for you, when it 'shimmers' with meaning, when the Holy Spirit is addressing you through these words." I think this would be especially helpful for new Christians or for more mature Christians who feel stuck for some reason.

There is also a chapter, "Harvesting Your Journal," which contains suggestions for reviewing, summarizing, and indexing your journal(s). The Resource list suggests Harveting Your Journals by Rosalie Deer heart and Alison Strickland. I'm definitely going to get that book.

This book should be in every Christian's library.

I've been journaling on and off for years, more on than off for the last few years! Ronald Klug does an outstanding job of explaining the importance of keeping a journal, ideas to get you going, suggestions of things to write about, etc.

Keeping a journal has been one of the most satisfying and helpful things I've done in my Christian walk. When you go back to read it later, you can really see God's working in your life!

One of the things that Klug addresses that I've never seen anywhere else is the "problem" of what do to with notes you might be taking on books you're currently reading. Do you incorporate them into your daily journal, or keep a separate notebook? I'm journaling every day and reading my Bible and other books every day, and this is something that I've done different ways and I haven't found any one solution to be entirely satisfactory. I thought it was wonderful that the author even addressed the "problem"! I want to be able to find notes on a particular book I'm reading easily, and if they're scattered throughout the dailyness of your writing, that is harder to do.

He suggests keeping notes from other books you are reading in a separate notebook from your daily journal. And he suggests indexing them so you know what's in that notebook! An excellent suggestion and one I hadn't tried before. Just leave the first page blank and you could write which books' notes are contained in the book, and you could even add page numbers. I think this is a great idea!

As for brief quotes that you might be struck by, or particular scripture passages that you're learning about, you could include those in your daily journal.

The author says that he writes in spiral notebooks of lined paper. When he's finished, he puts them in a binder so that he has them all in order. While I prefer the small hardcover spiral-bound books that you find in Christian bookstores for journaling purposes, having them all together and in order is an attractive option! I also prefer using colorful Gelly Roll pens that are archival safe and permanent.

However you do it, Ronald Klug emphasizes that however you keep your journal is right for you. Whether you write it or dictate it or type it, whether you write in it twice a day, twice a week, or twice a year - it's a valuable tool for spiritual growth.

Please check out my other reviews of Christian books!

Happy journaling!

How To Keep a Spiritual Journal by Ronald Klug is a great source of inspiration for journal writing. It is the most comprehensive book on the subject o f journal writing that I've ever read. Mr. Klug gives many examples from his own journal writing, and he gives many approaches as well as ways to "get going" when you feel stuck. I read, and re-read the book and have loaned it and recommended it to friends who then bought their own copies. I find it a great resource. The most important thing Mr. Klug says about journal writing is that your journal is your journal, and you write it for your own reasons, so there's no one approach you MUST use. That's what I like about journal writing. I think you will find this book very encouraging and supportive for ANY reason that you want to write a journal.