I bought a book called 'This Is Not A Book' / Random Book Excerpt #2

I know that book has got a strange title. I've always wanted to buy a Keri Smith (read more about her in her Wish Jar Journal, my daily inspiration) book but never found it at any local bookstore here before or tried purchasing online. I was really suprised to see Keri's 'This Is Not A Book' at Times Bookstore. I didn't buy instantly but finally made my mind to grab a copy the week after. That book is really out of the ordinary - it's more like an activity book (peculiar stuffs/think creative/you have to be someone imaginative/do something you don't do everyday & etc).

Front cover:


Back cover (guess buying online is much cheaper-damn):


Note to the reader/user (Keri even wrote that this book is an inconvenience because her instruction goes: Take 'THIS IS NOT A BOOK' everywhere you go for 1 week. You must place it in full view at all times.)


More info about this book (oops, I forgot this is not a book), check here (taken from Keri's blog).

So if you wanna join me do crazy stuffs from this book - let me know! It would be fun:)

My random book excerpt #1

After my daily reads of my fav illustrator, Keri Smith's blog 'Wish Jar Journal', I'm inspired to follow her footstep to just simply post anything extracted from a book, the papers, it could be a photograph or a photo art from a book/mag & etc. This could happen if I'm out of ideas what to say in my blog by simply extracting out some short but interesting piece of article/photo from a book or mag - at least to update or post something in here everyday or thrice a week.

One example I got from 'Wish Jar Journal' is this...Keri's random book excerpt #38 which I liked. She extracted it from a book (I guess) "Wandering" by Herman Hesse.



I also liked the fact that she often post nice quotes such as....
To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precises scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs - By George Perec.

So I'm gonna start today my very 1st random book excerpt:


I extracted a picture of an art called 'Look Closer' by Regina Cross from a lovely 2010 organiser - a Homage to African-American Artists (I guess because of Obama's reign as US President) given by an associate from the US Embassy in KL.