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The Journal Keeper: A Memoir (2010)

by Phyllis Theroux(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0802118976 (ISBN13: 9780802118974)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press

review 1: What a beautiful book! Theroux chronicles several years of her life, and even though the entries are edited, she doesn't spare herself. Apart from beautiful, lyrical prose that leaps off the page, she includes quotes and passages from her own reading that have meaning to her. She describes her journal as a "flashlight in darkened woods", and advises the reader to write towards the light, helpful and welcome guidance, because so often I find my own journal keeping gravitating towards the dark emotions and the things I find going wrong in my life. A pleasure to read and an inspiration filled with spiritual musings that I will have to read again in order to really absorb it all.
review 2: The author convinced me that our journals should not be published. Too much ... moreof her thoughts on things. I wanted to bop her over the head a few times. She expected others to change the way they were but never expected that she should change. If you are in relationships you need to allow them to be themselves. She expected people to change or she wouldn't have them in her life. If you read the book hopefully you will see what I mean by this. I don't know if I will read anymore of her books. I think sometimes it is better to have a mystique about the authors and their thoughts on every day things. less

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