Calliope's Diary

Heres something different for your book club * A novel * The characters journals* Your journalTime to move beyond blank journal pagesCalliopes Diary offers a personal journalfull of ideas and questionsdesigned to lead you tophilosophize, organize, energize and ponderCalliopes Diary also tells the tales of the lives, labors and loves or interesting, modern women. Read their stories. Read their diariesand thenadd to this new and different type of journal. Its 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 Clarys journal that organizes all aspects of her busy life. In Calliopes 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 frustrationson pages with questions designed to pull forth the readers' feelings3)Lead readers to discover what they are made ofby diagramming where they have been through the use of time lines and historical contexts4)Assist journalers in further defining who they arethrough the use of lists of the readers' favorite things5)Encourage us to be gratefulwith the help of calendar pages inviting reflections on thanks and manifesting6)Focus our powerby using a series of tools both to define challenges and overcome 7)Help us determine life directionon 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.