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True Notebooks
True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall | Mark Salzman
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In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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wtimblin
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So, so true. But I need them for reasons...

Bronte_Chintz So much truth! I literally have a stack I haven‘t used and yet I know I‘ll buy more 😂🙌🏻 6y
wtimblin @Bronte_Chintz haha, I know. It's like an addiction. I had to write in one of mine a few days ago and I was not happy. Had to go out and buy another to replace it! 6y
Ciannait @wtimblin heh, I resemble that problem... 6y
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Bronte_Chintz @wtimblin Totally know them feels! 6y
Cspen113 I do this all the time!! And not only fancy ones either! Cheap school notebooks, big, little, and in between! I need them all. 6y
wtimblin @Cspen113 we should start a support group. Let me get a notebook to write down some ideas for when we can meet....🤣 6y
Librariana So you mean there are other people who do the same thing I do!? You mean... I'm not alone in this?? I've lost count of the times I justify the purchase of a new composition book or create a new reason for needing it... on the spot, mind you!... when I know full well I've got at least two blank ones waiting at home. 6y
Librariana I also have this irrational fear of writing in a brand new notebook and "messing it up". 6y
nikkiy_reads You successfully explained the mental dialogue during my last visit to Target. (edited) 6y
nikkiy_reads @Librariana I do too. I always skip the first 5 pages just in case I need to start over. 6y
wtimblin @Librariana @nikkiy_reads thank God it's not just me, I'm normal...honest...😁 6y
Librariana @nikkiy_reads - I do the same thing! I skip the first 5 pages!! 😄 @wtimblin - Does that mean we really should start a support group?? 😁 6y
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ChrysFey
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My Target finds for today. Lines notebook paper socks for $1 and a matching tote for $3. I think I‘ll use the bag for my writing things whenever I go to the library. 😄

#writersoflitsy #anwriting #booknerd #writingnerd #shopping #notebook #littens

OrangeMooseReads I might have to make a Target visit next week 😊 6y
gibblr I've been to Target twice and haven't seen these. Good thing I have to go back tomorrow! 6y
SheilaChew I need those socks! 😍 6y
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That-Bookish-Hiker So cute! I love Target! I‘m going to have to check my Target for this. 6y
quietjenn Darn, gotta go to Target now. 😋 6y
Kimberlone I hope I can find those at my Target! 6y
Bookzombie Now I have to go to Target! 6y
ChrysFey I found them in the discount section where they had a lot of cheap things for teachers and back-to-school items. It‘s probably different in every store. 😕 6y
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BarbaraJean
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Last night, I meant to snuggle in for #litsypartyofone with two library books that are due soon. Instead, plans changed with a spontaneous call from my husband's college friend who was in town. But we took the friend to our favorite local used bookstore, and I brought home a sweet #bookhaul from the clearance shelf. Three old books for a friend's birthday (one has a lovely inscription from 1908), and a couple of paperbacks for me. Not a bad night!

rubyslippersreads Those are gorgeous vintage books! 😍 7y
BarbaraJean @rubyslippersreads They really are! And each was marked $1. 👍Of course, my husband's best friend works at the store and he wouldn't let me pay, so there's also that. Double 👍 7y
ReadingSusan I love books with inscriptions inside! 7y
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tpixie @BarbaraJean wow! Great #bookhaul!! 7y
BarbaraJean @ReadingSusan Me too! It's like finding buried treasure! @tpixie Thanks--it made me so happy! 😊 7y
tpixie 💜💙❤️ 7y
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tjwill
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Here are some of my notebooks. Not all of them are currently being used. Some are for work notes, some for quotes, one for cute or funny things my kids say, one is a sketchbook. #riotgrams

TbrandBeyond Very cute ♥️ 8y
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dariazeoli
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I was very tempted by this blank notebook at B&N today, but I have a problem with buying books and not using them.

This one is cute, though!

RealLifeReading Love it! 8y
DivineDiana I have the same problem! 😉 8y
Lauren.Archer I love this, I purchased the tote. 8y
dariazeoli @Lauren.Archer There's a tote?! Must have! 😊 8y
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TrishB
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#notebooksjournals #riotgrams
Left side - some of my current to be used notebooks.
Right side - my reading log.

Yeah_I_Read I have the same reading log 😊 8y
TrishB @Yeah_I_Read cool 👍 I really like this one! 8y
Books88 I have the same one!! (Right one!) 8y
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TrishB @AJBowers obviously a popular choice 😀 8y
CareBear I have that reading log too! I love it 8y
TrishB @CareBear 😀👍 8y
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BibliophileBelle
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I love this, love is love, tough love is important in raising youth. It truly does take a village to raise a balanced child.
"You might think it was cruel of me just now, yelling at him like that, but it's exactly what he needs. It's what he never had growing up. To know that somebody cares enough to get pissed off."