Posted on December 2, 2010 by mark10ant
This is a journal about living in a foreign country on a long-term basis or forever. I immigrated to Israel three years ago, and although I am generally well-adjusted, not a day goes by without me noticing somehow that I wasn’t born here. There are just so many little things that don’t seem natural or obvious to me.I’m sure there are others on Bookmooch who are living in a country that is different from the one they grew up in – be it temporarily or for good. I would like to hear about your every-day experiences living in a foreign place.
I created this journal out of one of the many brochures about different institutions that I received when I came to this country; this particular one is about the services of a health insurance company. You can use the pictures in it for your entry (they’re kind of cute), but you can also just cover up entire pages. Use as many pages as you want, just please don’t alter anyone else’s entry.
I suggest you relist the journal on your inventory immediately after marking it received (since you’ll already be on Bookmooch anyway :)) – this will make it available as soon as possible for other moochers, and remind you to make an entry. Don’t worry about time pressure – you can always tell a moocher that it will take you a little longer to send out their book.
When the brochure is full, please contact me (Hannah; BMID: hanhel), and I will mooch it back from you. If you are having trouble getting the book back out to someone, feel free to contact me as well, I will try to find a solution.
This journal has just arrived 7 months after being marked sent.
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Posted on December 2, 2010 by mark10ant
Mammock pie was all I remember my mother cooking at home. To us it came to mean a concoction of any left-over morsels that could be found in the larder, it varied widely and was never the same twice. “We have nothing else to tear it with,” replied Wamba; “but mine are scarce fit to make mammocks of freestone and mortar.” The word probably derives from a Gaelic word for a hill or handful. The word has come to mean something torn or shredded, and was used by Shakespeare in its verb form.
I had originally earmarked this Czech calendar (2001) for making a recipe book as it has two tags in its card end sheets which lock together to make it free-standing. (Because of this I would ask people to add recipes or notes with the text written landscape facing the edge of the book. This may make the ingredients face one way when open and the recipe the opposite, but will mean it can sit in the kitchen in use and readable.)
On reflection I wanted it to contain more than just food recipes – uses for all sorts of surpluses like rose petals, collected beach pebbles, hazel nuts, a good catch of fish, plants that will dye fabrics, as well as the usual rush of runner beans, green tomatoes, blackcurrants, apples etc. that your garden or friends may give you. My most unusual urban surpluses have been tiny buttons from a shirt-making factory and lumpy glue from a factory making suitcases; my country surpluses include a spring flush of milk, redcurrants, mushrooms, grass cuttings and horse manure!
Take opposite pages for an entry, use more than one pair anywhere you please, perhaps in the appropriate month, and please keep the journal circulating so that it can return to me completed as soon as possible.Send me images if possible to add to the journal site slide show, and contact me if you have any problems or queries or it is full or damaged.
Gill Tennant, Cymru / Wales BM id: tennantfamily:U.K. December 2010
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Posted on December 2, 2010 by mark10ant
As the title suggests, this is a journal dedicated to cows. Do you work with cows? Do you own cows? Are you scared of cows? Do you know an interesting story about cows? Did you make a funny experience with cows? Are cows your favourite animal? Do you not like cows at all?Photos, drawings, poems, stories, texts, art – anything about cows is welcome in this journal. Please just follow these few simple guidelines:
1) Use as many pages as you want for your entry, but don’t alter anyone else’s work.2) I suggest you relist this journal on your inventory immediately after marking it received (since you’ll already be on Bookmooch anyway :)) – this will make the journal available as soon as possible for other moochers, and remind you to make an entry. Don’t worry about time pressure – you can always tell a moocher that it will take you a little longer to send out their book.3) When the book is full, please contact me (Hannah; BMID: hanhel), and I will mooch it back to you. If you are having trouble getting the book back out to someone, feel free to contact me as well, I will try to find a solution.
Click on the blue underlined link in the journal description to see the slideshow.
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Posted on December 2, 2010 by mark10ant
December is the twelfth and final one of a set of journals I am creating to celebrate the months of the year. These will be released month by month.
They are for anything to do with the month: why you like or dislike it, what it means to you, poems, books, artwork, music, songs, photographs, stories:- whatever you are inspired to do.
Put your entry wherever seems appropriate.
Rules:
Don’t alter anyone else’s work.
Keep for no more than two weeks.
Relist promptly.
Be willing to send anywhere it is requested.
When the journal is complete please reserve it for me and I will mooch it back. If pages start to come loose let me know please, and I can mooch it back and remake the book and repair as necessary.
Gill T. tennantfamily
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Posted on December 2, 2010 by mark10ant
This journal isn’t unique, there are others like it circulating, but I wanted one for myself. The idea is to write a story together. This works as follows:1) When you receive the journal, read the story up to the last entry2) Add a little bit to the story – really as much as you want to. It should be more than one sentence, but anything between a paragraph and a few pages is fine.3) Add your name to the page of contents at the beginning of the journal.4) Feel free to add any illustrations to your part of the story.5) Send the journal along to its next author.
I wrote an introduction, but the story line is still open and can obviously change throughout the process of creating this book. When I get the journal back, I will publish the story online, so that everyone who participated in the project can enjoy it.
This journal comes in an A5 binder, for the simple reason that that’s the only appropriate thing I had available at home. Please don’t add any pages to the existing ones in the binder – that will just make this project endless. When you reach the last page, bring the story to an end and contact me (Hannah, BmId: hanhel), so that I can mooch it back from you.
I suggest you relist the journal on your inventory immediately after marking it received (since you’ll already be on Bookmooch anyway :)) – this will make it available as soon as possible for other moochers, and remind you to make an entry. Don’t worry about time pressure – you can always tell a moocher that it will take you a little longer to send out their book.
Click on the blue underlined link in the journal description to see the slideshow.
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