Calliope's Diary (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"Here’s something different for your book club –* A novel* The characters’ journals* Your journalTime to move beyond blank journal pagesCalliope’s Diary offers a personal journalfull of ideas and questionsdesigned to lead you tophilosophize, organize, energize and ponderCalliope’s Diary also tells the tales of the lives, labors and loves or interesting, modern women.Read their storiesRead their diariesand thenadd to this new and different type of journal.“It’s flirtation infidelity!” Calliope declares after discovering that Mr. Amorous-Guy-at-Work has a girlfriend. Calli, as Calliope is informally called, shares her angst with her friend Clary as they alternately chit-chat and process their thoughts in their diaries. Calli is happily distracted by Clary’s journal that organizes all aspects of her busy life.In Calliope’s Diary, Calli connects with her seven closest friends who express their ideas and process their emotions with the help of their journals. Their other-than-blank journal pages:1)Organize our thoughts and goals--in business ledger-inspired pages2)Offer an opportunity to vent frustrations—on pages with questions designed to pull forth the readers' feelings3)Lead readers to discover what they are made of—by diagramming where they have been through the use of time lines and historical contexts4)Assist journalers in further defining who they are—through the use of lists of the readers' favorite things5)Encourage us to be grateful—with the help of calendar pages inviting reflections on thanks and manifesting6)Focus our power—by using a series of tools both to define challenges and overcome 7)Help us determine life direction—on divided pages that welcome both the ideas of the journal owner as well as the musings of a fellow diarist8)Provide a place to reflect upon our beliefs--in a manifesto-type section that asks the reader to define her beliefs."