I made it with a recycle book manual I had hanging around. I glued every third page to the end. The book had over pages or more..
When I was finished it was still 80 odd pages. It was bulky. I did jokes, games ask him to make circles in it with out stopping your pen. The whole nine yards of nonsense. You name it. Real masculine book. Questions like. If you had a robber in your house. Your dads car keys were on the front table. What would you do to scare of the robber in your house.
Press the button for horn. So do you know if the one you gave too they actually smashed it.? I told him throw it up in the air. He said heck no Grams. It is a keepsake from you. Why would I do that.
Sort of made me feel good I must say that way. The Moms do it more in the year to now. My G kids loved what I did. So now I had finished the last one last year. I am 72 s still I love doing corny things in scraping and Cinderella frills and lace, bling, bling for my first born Grand. She loved it she took it to her University to show and tell it. So I guess the thing to do is not give it to family smash book.
I, too, am a perfectionist and this would be so helpful. I love that you shared this and your wrecking! Hope you share more! Will be on the look out! Oh my gosh, this looks like So. I am putting this on my birthday wish-list! What better way to ring in a new decade than by wrecking a journal, right?? And I hear you on the deep and abiding respect for every page.
I felt so bad!! Ha, so I just went add this to my Amazon Wish List, and it was already there! Thank you for sharing and inspiring, as always! Always such fun. I can picture you running around outside in the rain and gleefully jumping on the book. Thanks for sharing! My mind is blown! How awesome! Ooh I want one too! Bill and I saw this at a small book shop once. Maybe we should go order it! It would also be a fun way to get students to get creative and think outside the box.
If I was still teaching this would be something I got my kiddos! Of course I want to hear more about your book irreverence and the creative life of a perfectionist journey! I have added this to my Amazon wishlist!
What a wonderful idea…for perfectionists or for someone wanting a little extra adventure! Wow I love this! I have a tendency of being a perfectionist some may have even called me a control freak a time or two. Love this. Adding to my amazon wishlist!
I love this idea! Oh I love how yours is shaping up! I have this book, and it is great fun, but it was hard to start wrecking it. Burn this page?? Fun, I want one! Although I know how you feel. All those book page projects on Pinterest make me cringe. Ooh, I love this SO much! This is a terrifying idea to me.
Like, I am having heart palpatations just reading this. Admittedly, your results look really cool obviously, you made it!
Although I would like to see what else you come up with! I think.. I would be trying to make the coffee spills into a neat concise pattern. My boots would have a perfect pattern on the bottom and I would be trying to grind the grass to get a beautiful green on them before I stepped on the pages. I had a counselor one time try to get me to go home and hang some of the pictures on the walls crooked and live with it.
As If. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Don't subscribe All Replies to my comments Please notify me of replies to my comment via e-mail. Put it in your pocket. Put it through the wash. Stick it back in. Wreck This Journal: Part I 1. Leap, it said. And so…I did.
I ended up with a rainbow on my fingertips, too! Have a happy Wednesday, friends! Pin 12K. Lovely comments so far Oh, this is really an interesting book idea.
She is going to be a school teacher. Third year now.. Would you share where you can get this journal? Thanks, Cecilia. I had forgotten Lisbeth got that for you. Thanks for sharing and definitely keep showing us more of your journal as you go along!
Oh my gosh!!!! I need one of these! Looks like SO. I love the idea of the wreck book. And I love your green boots, too! What I mean by that is, it pushes your boundaries and makes you think of both art and journaling in a different way. It tries to expand the ideas we have established of what we think a journal is.
Each page tells you something different to do to, with, or in the journal— something wacky, zany, creative, hilarious, fun, messy— something different! I ended up really loving it and giving several of her other things a try. I also roped my mom into doing one of these of her owner the same time. She and I had some real fun getting these pages done and finding things to go on them. It helped me in my journaling and opened up new avenues of creativity. To me that was great considering my journals and idea books have always been eclectic.
It would make a fun group project! Nov 27, Liam rated it really liked it. This book will literally provide me with hours, days, weeks, months, years of stuff to do! It's kept me busy for so long and it's just nice to do a little bit every now and then when I'm in the mood! Such a great idea and would recommend to all!
Shelves: owned-physical-copy. I always have my own way of "treating" my diary. I cut it in half if the year was a shitty one or i intentionally leave stained of coffee on the name of a person i hated. By the end of my first year in university, a close senior of mine gave this book as a present and I was so fascinated by the format of the journal. Every flip of the pages makes me feel like they are mocking and challenging me. It means that a diary should be listening to everything you wanted to rant without making a comeback.
They should just "received" and never "replied". And boy how I have a lot of fun with the book. Tbh the whole 2nd year in university was the shittiest year ever.
And thanks to this book, its literally became my savior. Sep 01, Rebecca Hanson rated it did not like it. View all 7 comments. This is Great stress reliever. May 27, EmilyGrace rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: perfectionists,.
You may find yourself covered in paint, or any other number of foreign substances. You will get wet. You may be asked to do things you question. You may grieve for the perfect state that you found the book in. You may begin to see creative destruction everywhere. You may begin to live more recklessly. Dedicated to perfectionists all over the world. This was given to me as a birthday present from a good friend who knows just how much of a perfectionist I am.
Especially fun to read and complete with friends. Sep 18, Thebruce rated it it was amazing Shelves: books-i-gots , crafty-things. The point of the journal is to break the habit of all perfectionists who shudder to think of a page being bent in one of their books. I am one of those, without a doubt: crack a spine and I'll crack your arm.
Though it was difficult at first, it was liberating to be able to "wreck" the journal, creating a unique work of art in the process. It's hard to ever be finished with this book, as it is always evolving; it's fun to carry around and add to when the spirit moves you!
Dec 12, Cass rated it really liked it. View all 4 comments. Sep 04, sofia sam willows rated it liked it Shelves: dont-own , own , in-portuguese. It was fun to throw the book in the water and walk with it around like a dog, I'll tell you that It was fun to throw the book in the water and walk with it around like a dog, I'll tell you that Nov 03, Georgie rated it really liked it Shelves: art. I had so many ideas on what I was going to do with each page! I like the whole idea of the book, and for artsy and creative people, this is great!
Each page has a different instruction that can be interpreted differently by everyone. And maybe one day I will actually get around to completing mine!!
Jan 11, Shelly added it Shelves: finished-in Not exactly a book to be read as much as it is a book to experience. One of the first instructions is to crack the spine I whimpered. But now that I'm past that, I'm finding it a whole lot of fun -- although I'm not too sure about taking it for a walk Jan 06, Liam rated it did not like it Shelves: will-not-read-or-dnf.
Someone gave this to me as a birthday present a long time ago. I'm moving out, it's the biggest waste of space in my apartment. Unfortunately, I hate this book. Yes, maybe it is appealing for bored children, but frankly, it is an obnoxious and expensive waste of paper. A tree died for this?
And also, I don't think this book encourages creativity, but rather saturates boredom. To destroy pages in individually different ways, you actually need a lot of motivation and time! I don't want to dest Someone gave this to me as a birthday present a long time ago. I don't want to destroy. I want to destroy what tells me to destroy, like any punk would. If I'm honest, had I more time, I would have pissed on it or set it on fire before I binned it, to ironically rebel against orders to destroy.
To wreck the orders of the journal that orders to be destroyed in a certain way. But the joke wasn't funny enough, and I don't have THAT much time, I must pack my suitcase and it'd probably mess up my apartment somehow.
Although seeing how long this review got, maybe I should have done that and been on my way. Is it really encouraging creativity, or rather enforcing obedience to orders to destroy?
I think a great scifi plot would be if something like this book was secretly totalitarian propaganda desensitizing the youth to vandalism.
But to its merit, the education system never teaches us to destroy, and that from a Hegelian viewpoint may be an error that books like this provide an outlet and learning experience for. But, I feel like if you were bored enough to thoroughly wreck the journal you should go outside and talk to people or go outside, it would be a more enriching experience.
It bothers me that Penguin would endorse making and selling this over other aspiring storytellers, or printing absolutely any of their existing range of novels — which will be read or sold over and over again. This book will be binned or ruined.
This book dies, it is never reread or passed down. Almost 15, GoodReads users have contributed to what seems to be a very singular, destructive and meaningless experience to kill time and paper. I understand making novelty gifts and catering to all, but does this book in any way encourage a respect or interest in reading?
Does destroying a book by this author make me think this author can write and encourage me to purchase more? But hey, if anyone enjoys this or gets something out of this who am I to judge?
It's definitely thinking outside of the box. I can see the quirky appeal of it and I can see why it would sell well in a gift shop I can see why it would be fun to someone completely bored and young and free. Like when I was much younger and had to sit at a parent's friend's house, the boredom of being trapped in one space I can see then how this book could be a day of activities that might help me forget I was trapped.
But even still, does it lead anywhere in improving 'creativity'? Doesn't it fail in being unable like any other book might, in leaving some lasting reflection and change us as individuals? My concern is that we live in a world where this book could not only sell, but sell well.
I'm probably being too serious, and trying to give this 'novelty book' more thought than it deserves or requests, but consider my position. It's just sad that in receiving this as a gift, I have been put in a position where I either directly recycle it without using it, or trash it in a time-consuming and repetitive way that vies against my ecological views and personality. This book should only be those who buy it for themselves. Ideologically, this book bothers me not because of what it is, but what it represents.
But if only I was given this when I was preconscious, seven years old again, this would've been on my read shelf, and might've made a weekend afternoon more memorable. Though in honesty, given the choice, I probably would've played video games instead. This was so much fun, I absolutely need to find more interactive adventure books to do! Got this from Urban Outfitters. This looks like a good book to use as a random scrapbook and observation journal.
I have so far gotten this book wet along with scribbling inside it, and tearing out the pages and following a few of it's instructions. After you jot down some random notes inside this book, it often reminds me of a book that was distressed by someone else, instead of being owned by me. You get the feeling after using this book that you are looking into a book that was left behind by Got this from Urban Outfitters. You get the feeling after using this book that you are looking into a book that was left behind by someone who left in the lost and found and was owned by someone else.
Pretty neat, and creative, huh? A day after infusing the book with my perfume and putting dirt on one of the pages. This book is starting to look and smell like an old book that has been in a drawer of an desk from the seventies. I even had to fan out my book to get rid of the strange smell that I have created-cheers to the author of one of her creative ideas -Hee,hee,hee!
Dec 05, RF rated it really liked it. To create is to destroy - It's pretty a fascinating journal, as I would put it. The fact that each of the pages would ask you to pour coffee on it, poke holes in the pages with pencil, draw lines, scratch the journal with sharp object, scribble wildly and violently, rip it up, hide a secret message somewhere in the book and so on My little sister thinks I'm insane for buying a journal that I would destroy in the end. Anyhow, I think it's going to be fun since that I'm on my holiday break and I have nothing to do.
Get yourself one, and see if you like it. Dec 29, Sophia Tallon rated it it was amazing Shelves: favourites. I got this as a present yesterday for Christmas from my aunt and -seriously?
Who knew throwing a journal at the wall could be SO fun :D I am still working on doing all that it comands I don't know if I'll tie a string to it and take it for a walk That picture of it is NOT accurate btw. Dec 16, Grace rated it it was amazing.
It's not exactly a reading book, but an activity book. A fun, creative, see-just-how-beat-up-you-can-get-it activity book. I had hours of fun with it and to prove it I can show you all two pieces! I don't remember exactly what task split it at the spine, but it probably happened after throwing it at the wall then dragging it around from a string outside I would recommend this book to anyone who doesn't mind getting in the dirt and having fun : It's not exactly a reading book, but an activity book.
I don't remember exactly what task split it at the spine, but it probably happened after throwing it at the wall then dragging it around from a string outside I would recommend this book to anyone who doesn't mind getting in the dirt and having fun Shelves: books-i-own. Mar 23, Camila rated it it was amazing. I loved it because it was a challenge for me, creatively and technique wise i had soo much fun. Sep 03, Mik added it. Follow me on instagram to see the process : Follow me on instagram to see the process I have done the ultimate destructive thing to this journal aside from burning it - I threw it in the dumpster.
Many thanks to my mother who collected fruit stickers and stamps for the pages, and my apologies to the office supplies I could have salvaged from that one assignment but which ended up in the dumpster too. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed.
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