I have been journaling for over 35 years.  I have many chapters of my life in all kinds of styles of books; leather, pleather, cloth-covered...you name it.  Having survived a particularly long and adverse illness, I now find a new appreciation of my life as a result of unexpected survival.  This calls for some serious journaling and my husband found THE perfect vessel in which to write my story - this magnificent leather record; rich, fragrant leather bursting with the most luxurious almost cloth-like paper that absorbs my fountain pen thoughts like butter on a hot biscuit. I truly believe you will LOVE it as much as I do.  I highly recommend this journal, and may need a second one before I am done!