The BookMooch Journals

This is a small and light writing pad waiting to be filled with lists of useful things/facts. It can be about anything and any number of things on one list – you decide what you consider useful (such as: “Ten useful facts about snakes”, “Five great restaurants in Berlin” or “14 good things to do when it’s raining”). You can express yourself in writing or pictures or both; use as many pages as you want, just don’t alter anyone else’s work.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 writing pad 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.

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This is a small artfully made notebook I received as a gift from a very good friend a few years ago. I’m sure it was very expensive and my friend put a lot of effort into picking out this present for me, but I’ve just never found a fitting use for it, so I decided to make it a Bookmooch journal.
This friend had feelings for me, and I knew about it, but we never really spoke about what was obvious. Back then we were very young and probably just didn’t know how to deal with that kind of thing in an appropriate matter (then again – do you ever really?); today I wish we had talked things through. There are so many times in life when we don’t share our true thoughts and feelings with someone close to us, out of fear that it might change the relationship. When we think about it later, it often seems a shame that we didn’t try to be honest. I want to hear your “Stories of Untold Love”. It doesn’t have to be romantic love like in my case – it can be about the way you admired a teacher but never told them, the deep connection you felt with a friend, or the way you truly feel about your siblings even though they always annoy you.
What didn’t you tell? How do you think it would have changed things if you had? If you had the option to go back in time, would you behave differently? Tell me your story – in writing or drawing or any other possible way – in as much detail as you chose to reveal.
A few rules for journaling: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.

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What is your idea of a perfect breakfast?

I found this little book that Mark had made and my mind went back to the weekend we spent in Paris for our 25th wedding anniversary in April 2000.  We always went out for breakfast, and found a small café where we could breakfast on coffee and croissants with chocolate or jam. It is not a breakfast I would have at home, but was perfect in the spring sunshine.
Your perfect breakfast may be a particular cereal, Scots porage or a good fry-up, or it may involve, as mine does, a particular place, and company to share it with.
Share yours with us journallers!
Please keep to the normal two weeks for making your entry and relisting this journal with the number on the inside front cover. Please keep the track of its progress by always mooching normally – if you wish to give someone points back for an unavoidable delay or some personal reason, get them to mooch it as usual and then return points. That way it can be traced through its mooch history.
If you have not seen the places where journalling is described and its rules laid out please look at:

The_BookMooch_Journal_Project site page about how journalling works: https://bookmoochjournals.com/about/
the Bookmooch Wiki entry on journalling:

http://wiki.bookmooch.com/ index.php?title= The_BookMooch_Journal_Project

and BookMooch Journals forum:  http://bookmooch.com/m/forum/bookmooch_journals/
Happy journalling!

Gill T. tennantfamily

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