I never managed to keep a journal or diary. I always wanted to write something beautiful, profound and inspired. In other words, there were a lot of blank pages. This book caught my eye exactly because it was the opposite of all my previous attempts.
Extraordinary Ordinary Moments, by Jorey Hurley, celebrates the small things in life, those mundane but perfect moments that we often look over. Each page has a prompt, ranging from "something you carry with you" to "something with potential," and a drawing, which may or may not be relevant or inspiring. The rest of the page is left blank, to allow writing, drawing, collage or any other interpretation of the prompt. The book is large and opens flat, making it easy to use, and the pages are nice and thick.
As always, some of the prompts were interesting and relevant to me. Others, not as much, tending to the cliche and trite. Perhaps I'll see those as an interesting challenge when I get there. Perhaps I'll decide to skip that page. Hey, it's my journal, I can do what I like! Overall, I believe it will be a useful guide for my journaling experiment. The drawings, however, are somewhat too cutesy for my taste. After a while, they started to annoy me.
In exchange for an honest review, Blogging for Books had provided me with a complimentary copy of this journal.
No comments:
Post a Comment