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Wreck This Journal: Page 121: Close Your Eyes, Connect the Dots from Memory

I think I did pretty well!

Wreck This Journal: Page 71: Cover This Page Using Only Office Supplies

You know, I was slightly disappointed with the lack of cool office supplies I had in my apartment.

I know I should have followed directions and brought it to work, buttttt I didn’t.  I’ve never been all that good at following directions.

Wreck This Journal: Page 37: Chew On This

Nom.

Well that was yummy!  Wrecking a journal is delicious.

Wreck This Journal: An Ongoing Project

So one night, Brandice and I were talking about journaling.  She mentioned this really cool journal she had been wanting to buy.  As soon as I read the description, I was in.  We immediately ordered the journal from Amazon, and our project began.

The journal is a series of blank pages, each with a whimsical command.  There’s a group on Flickr and I’ll be updating my own Flickr set. Brandice is also updating her own set.

The Instructions for the journal are as follows:

1. Carry this with your everywhere
2. Follow the instructions on every page
3. Order is not important
4. Instructions are open to interpretation
5. Experiment (work against your better judgement)

Listening to instruction #3, we began our journey by my picking 5 random pages.  The first of which is page 15: Color This Entire Page.  I continued following directions by bringing the journal with me to a bar.  Coloring with a felt tip pen in annoying.

I look forward to lots more wrecking!

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

My review

rating: 2 of 5 stars
I didn’t like the first 3rd of the book at all (if it stood alone, I would give it one star). I was not at all engaged in the characters or the story. Every time I put down the book I just thought, “So what?”

But as the book progressed, I understand why the narrator had to lay out in such painstaking detail his relationship and feelings towards Hanna. The latter half the book was more interesting. I did become invested in the narrator and his complicated love for Hanna.

However, I felt cheated with the action of the last third of the book. All the late developments came so quickly and almost as an after thought. And weren’t they the whole reason the narrator was sharing this story in the first place?

I did enjoy the writing style. Many of the narrator’s observations on life and love resonated with me. But the book overall just didn’t do it for me.

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