The Heart of Thoreau's Journals9 reviews Dover Publications, 1961 "The Roaring Of The Wind Is My Wife" + a nicely edited essence of the journals + The Mind Reader + Good start on the "other" Thoreau + Quintessential             Heart of Emerson's Journals3 reviews Ralph Waldo Emerson Kessinger Publishing, 2003 The Mother Lode of American Literature + The reflections of a poet- thinker For thirty years I have coveted a battered copy of Bliss Perry's abbreviated edition of Emerson's Journals which my father carried in his sea bag during World War II. I first read this edition at age fifteen, and now most recently at age forty-four and continue to find much to startle and ...             Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl629 reviews Anne Frank Bantam, 1993 Anne Frank + A bright soul in a dark time + Diary of Anne Frank + awesome book, sad story + A good example of what it means to be a Refugee.             El Diario de Frida Kahlo: un intimo autorretrato3 reviews Frida Kahlo "Harry N. Abrams, Inc.", 2005 TIMELY CONSIDERING THE OVERDUE COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION NOW ON DISPLAY IN THE CAPITAL OF MEXICO + Diario Personal de Frida Kahlo...en español + It's a great book and it has so much detail about a master. Interesting that Calderon now opens a space for a comprehensive display of Kahlo's works in the capitol city, considering the great differences in the politics they espouse so ardently. It is like Rockefeller hiring Diego Rivera for a mural in Manhattan, and scandalized sees Marx and Lenin within! ...             Blue Octavo Notebooks9 reviews Franz Kafka Exact Change, 2004 The Gentleman fom Ontario + greatest format for the greatest writing by the greatest writer of the 20th century + Haven't read it yet -- just bought it -- + *********** THE NOTEBOOK **************** + Kafka thinking out loud             The Journals of Ayn Rand10 reviews Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff Dutton Adult, 1997 An essential take on the evolution of Ayn Rand! + An Important Book About an Amazing Woman + An Excellent Companion to the Letters + Interesting background material but her novels are better             On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 189419 reviews Laura Ingalls Wilder HarperTrophy, 1976 I like Historical Diaries But This One Is Especially Meaningful + Worth reading for the introduction! + Different to the LIttle house books, a diary of an adult + A Little Different             The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon51 reviews Dan Eldon Chronicle Books, 1997 Truly Profound + Amazing, Inspiring, & Beautiful + An amazing visual record of a brief, spectacular life + Awesome read, beautiful art + giving inspiration             A Year With Swollen Appendices: The Diary of Brian Eno21 reviews Brian Eno Faber & Faber, 1996 think + Insight into a great mind... + Delightfully Intimate + Like Good Food             The Crack-Up7 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1993 Vintage Fitzgerald + Slightly Obscure Fitzgerald + The dark night of the soul + A nice collection, but it could be better.             Journals195 reviews Kurt Cobain Riverhead Trade, 2003 Just a nice collection + Great read! + AWESOME! + kurt cobain journal             The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 2 (1934-1939)2 reviews Anais Nin Harvest/HBJ Book, 1970 A coherent extension of the first volume + Anais is always searching Anais Nin began a letter to her father, on the ship that carried her, her mother and brothers, away from him, away from Europe and to New York City. She was 11 at the time. The letter was never sent (her mother did not think it appropriate), but instead developed into a diary that would become ...             Notebooks 1935-19514 reviews Albert Camus, Philip Malcolm Waller Thody, ... Marlowe & Company, 1998 Albert Camus, writer. + A double value + An existentialist in the process + Great insight to his work             The Daybooks of Edward Weston5 reviews Beaumont Newhall Aperture, 2005 An intimate look into the mind and soul of an artist + A must read if you are an artist... + Daybooks of Edward Weston + The Weston experience- an introspective look + Into the Intimate Life of Ed Weston             The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth4 reviews Edvard Munch University of Wisconsin Press, 2005 journals reveal origins and sources of this famous artist's work + Some Insights Into the Painter's Mind + An absolute must-read for anyone fascinated by Edvard Munch's life and brilliant work As the subtitle which is lines from one of Munch's poems indicates, the Norwegian painter could write poetry that was as vividly intense as many of his paintings, notably his signature painting "The Scream." "The sky was like/blood--sliced with strips of fire..." are lines from another poem of his. ...             The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition12 reviews Waslaw Nijinsky Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999 Beautiful and Prophetic + the insane can be highly perceptive... + excellent presentation of difficult material + fasinating dancers life + icono             The Diaries of Franz Kafka (Schocken Classics Series)9 reviews Franz Kafka Schocken, 1988 The Indispensable Kafka + Comic masterpiece + A Writer's Writer + I am now in love with Franz Kafka + Incredible, Underrated.             A Writer's Diary2 reviews Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf Harvest/HBJ Book, 2003 Not For Writers Only - But For Female Survivors This is one of the greatest books ever compiled/edited (here, by the brilliant Leonard Woolf-too often completely disregarded for his own unique editorial genius) after Virginia Woolf's most tragic suicide. What you will learn from this book is the spectacularly heroic efforts VW expended moment to ...             The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath33 reviews Sylvia Plath Anchor, 2000 insightful + Not just for Plath aficianados, this is a must + A Case Study + Simply some of the best writing ever. Period. + impressive             Linotte: The Early Diary of Anais Nin (1914-1920)6 reviews Anais Nin Harvest Books, 1980 Prelude to the Storm + The Beginning of a Great Advenure + Amazingly different! + Good background, but not for the casual reader