Pre-Owned True Notebooks : A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall (Paperback)

from Djupstrom

This is a very interesting project. It is kind of like Freedom writers, but with juvenile offenders. It proves that there are no "hopeless" cases. Funny at times, tragic throughout.

from tibobi

I have to be honest, True Notebooks is not a book I would have picked up on my own. As far as childhoods go, mine was pretty rough. There were lots of opportunities for me to give-in to my surroundings, to let the environment dictate the type of life that I would live down the line, but for whate...

from debnance

Mark Salzman is one of the authors I'd have never found on my own. He is unusual in that he writes both fiction and nonfiction equally well. True Notebooks opens with Salzman having trouble with a character in a novel he's writing. Almost before he realizes it, he somehow finds himself teaching a...

from livebug

I don't think True Notebooks, wherein Mark Salzman teaches a writing class to kids in youth-prison awaiting trials mostly for murder, really breaks any new ground. Guess what -- the kids in his class really want to learn, and in their hearts they are still kids, no matter what they've done, and t...

from sumariotter

This book really moved me. What makes it so moving is the spare, unsentimental way Mark Salzman tells the story. I haven't read any of Salzman's other books but I see mention of Zen in a couple of the titles. This does not surprise me at all, because there Salzman is such a clear observer. This i...