I'm going to make this review short, because what I really want to say is that this book is fabulous and inspiring and everyone should get it, especially people suffering from perfectionism. It is a journal that you destroy and mangle: YES you must mangle this book! We are all so trapped in being right and perfect and we live in insane little boxes where mistakes are frowned upon or not tolerated. This book says LIVE! BE HUMAN! But then again, that is my book and what it says to me. Yours will be different. Get this book, but whatever you do, don't just stick it on a shelf. ( )

Its on order and hasn't arrived yet!

My daughter is having so much fun with this book that I'm planning to buy her a new one when this one is done. ( )

I picked up a copy of Wreck This Journal, and loved it from the moment I first flipped through the pages. All my life I have wanted to start and maintain a daily journal, filled with random thoughts and doodle. Sadly I am a bit anal about journal-ing - being a perfectionist doesn't go well with spontaneous writing. But with the help of Wreck This Journal I have discovered that sometimes it is the little mistakes and the unconscious squiggles that really express your thoughts. The entire point behind this book is to wreck it, damage it, mangle it - but to do it creatively. So I picked an easy page first - the instructions tell you to stick those little stickers you find on apples, bananas, pears etc. all over the page - it was slow going (who eats that much fruit each day) but eventually I ended up with a page full of peeling, ripped, kinda grungy fruit stickers. And you know it was really fun! Now I am working myself up to the assignment where you take your book somewhere's really high up - and drop it! Or maybe the one where you take the journal into the shower. Oh I can't forget the one where you rub a page against a tree and do something creative to what it leaves behind! ( )

Tonight I'm going to sleep with my journal. I have already broken its spine; added my own page numbers, chewed a page, set fire to a page, torn a page out and stuck it in again. I'm still not sure how it enhances creativity but my sulky 16-year-old and I had a great half an hour mother and daughter time and that alone makes it precious. Enjoy and don't take too seriously! ( )