Journal

Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason by Kristine Atkinson and Joyce Atkinson
I just saw this book on the new book display today and checked it out. It is a mystery in the form of someone's journal. But not just any written journal. Its just like someone had made a journal out of an altered book. Amy Zoe Mason is a wife and mother to two small children. She remains in Houston with the kids in order to sell their home while her husband is in Massachusetts starting his new position. Amy uses collages of pictures, words, and printed e-mails to describe her life and marriage while her husband is away. At first everything seems normal, but then signs in the journal point to something bad yet to come. This is marketed as if it were a real journal found by the authors in an old desk. Its almost like you are peeking into someone's life. It is an interesting concept.

It also brings to mind other books that are similar. One is the Griffin and Sabine books by Nick Bantock where you can read the correspondence between Griffin and Sabine by actually pulling out letters and postcards.
PostSecret : Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives compiled by Frank Warren is another one. Frank Warren asked people to write a secret on a postcard and send it to him anonymously. He posts some of them on his blog Postsecret. This book is a collection of some of cards that he recieved. And finally there is Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World compiled by Davy Rothbart. In Found Magazine people send it notes, letters, pictures, etc. of things that they have found. The book gathers together some of the best of them. I would like to do a book list of books like this, but I need to find some more titles. Any ideas?