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1 comments about How to Write Codes and Send Secret Messages.

1. I first read this book when I was very young in a scholastic bound edition. It has some very, very simple codes and cyphers explained very easily with simple, amusing illustrations. Basic substitutions, "invisible" ink, and the like. You won't find discussion of PGP, TripleDES or RSA Encryption here; the book is aimed at your precocious 7-10 year old. One of the codes in here I have used for nearly twenty years to keep my notes private, and I can write it as fast as english! Looking back at it, the book is a little silly, but I remember it as a great favorite. Take this review with a grain of salt- the Author, John Lawrence Peterson, is my grandfather. @--William Lawrence Peterson

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5 comments about A Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as a Path to Place.

1. Hinchman writes about her own experiences about journaling why she continues to write and draw in them. She breaks the book down into different parts of journaling at the end of each chapter she has a few pages of activities that you can use in your own journaling. But the book isn't preachy she talks about journaling from her point of view. What makes the book so beautiful is that it is filled with excerpts from her own journals over the years, both drawings and words. For me this book was especially good because it didn't tell you how to journal as if it was some set of instructions. Instead she, as in the title, led me down a trail.



2. If you are a biologist or scientist who also does art, this book may be as offensive to you as it was to me. This person presents an approach to 'seeing' which she suggests is the only true way to see. She gives extensive examples of how blind biologists/scientists are to the world. Her pretention only uncovers her own ignorance. I had such high hopes for this book. I had hoped to improve my field sketching skills. The only information I got from this book was an updated list of supplies. No useful technique information. Quite a bit of quirky annoying dogma.



3. The author favors an elaborate, self-conscious type of writing. Put bluntly, her prose is frequently purple. The drawing and writing lack the spontaneity that would be expected in genuine journal excerpts. The overall artwork is quite poor--flat, tentative drawings and watercolor pieces with mushy brushwork that leave the images feeling overworked and without any sense of weight.



4. In my 15 years of keeping a diary, I spent the first 10 keeping a conventional written record of thoughts, ideas, and occurances. But about 5 years ago my diary keeping received a pleasant and unexpected jolt when I encountered Hannah Hinchman's 'A Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as a Path to Place'. This beautifully written and illustrated book on keeping a visual diary completely enlarged my ideas of what a diary could be: a visual record as well as a meditation on the material universe.



5. Hannah's book is a delight - especially in the way she leads you along through her thought processes. She is skilled at both writing and drawing...but more so at helping you to see a different way of percieving and experiencing the world around you. This book is one I will treasure for a long time.

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