Rating: 
Summary: Genius is in this book!
Review: "Sabrina is a luminous mystery, a carousel of feelings, and discoveries. If you could lie down with her journals, you would see genius . . . I assure you of a nourishing voyage. There are words and pictures here that move us to cry and float simultaneously." SARK, author of Living Juicy
Rating:
Summary: It¿s a work of art!
Review: "We loved Sabrina's book. She is a sensitive, honest writer. She spills open, not with a call to the reader for sympathy or acknowledgement of her expertise simply because she is a youth, but rather with a call to being young as she experiences it - open, vulnerable, willing to take risks, searching.. . . every page has something to offer." - University Outreach Child & Youth Care Learning Center - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Rating:
Summary: excellent book, creative and well-written
Review: "Spilling Open" by Sabrina Ward Harrison is a truly amazing book. After reading it, I realized that I shouldn't hide myself or act like someone I'm not. I could completely relate with Sabrina most of the time in the story; going through the same experiences or problems as her. This book opened up a whole new window to me - a window of Sabrina's life.
Rating:
Summary: I NEVER PASSED ALGEBRA
Review: A book that changes lives. This is truely a masterpiece and in the same order as the Little Prince should be read by everyone! I read it on the way up to Oakland to visit the CCAC campus...and completely realized to stick with myself.....and my art mission....to never give up....that we all feel mucky somedays...and we're not alone. Thank you Sabrina.....YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS BOOK!
Rating:
Summary: I really loved this book!
Review: An interesting, colorful, amazing collage of Sabrina's thoughts, doubts, joys. I anticipated the release of this for months, and it's as good as I expected. I hope she's aleady at work on her next book!
Rating:
Summary: Amazing
Review: Beautiful...a piece of art in itself! It's a very personable book, but at the same time it's so fun and creative you'll want to put it out for guests to look at too.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing
Review: Beautiful...a piece of art in itself! It's a very personable book, but at the same time it's so fun and creative you'll want to put it out for guests to look at too.
Rating: 
Summary: An art journal that embraces life
Review: By its nature, an art journal is an intensely personal foray into the creative mind of the artist who finds expression in the combination of art and language. Spilling Open offers page after page of collaged images, highlighted by the writing that explains, explores, questions and muses, in search of the inner self. Author/artist Sabrina Ward Harrison begins her very personal journey after an introduction by SARK that encourages readers to dive into these pages, give over to the adventure that awaits, to "see through Sabrina eyes".
Indeed, there is much to see. Colorful splotches, photographs and ink drawings attract the eye to the hand-lettered text that personalizes the experience. Harrison shares her growing pains, the struggle to accept her own body just as it is and the heartbreak of lost love. Her self-expression is courageous and honest, constantly revelatory of an evolving self: "It's a mixture of speaking up and speaking in, reaching out and reaching in."
With more questions than answers in these years of early womanhood (eighteen to twenty-one), this imaginative map of the author's inner heart is an epiphany of sorts, one where Harrison defines her space as an individual, the bright, bold images as stimulating as her curiosity about the world that awaits: "Love it all...the whole process that's known as Life". Luan Gaines/2004.
Rating:
Summary: a little sugar with your salt...
Review: First, this is partially a response to the review titled, "A little too depressing for a self-help book" written on November 21, 2000 by scott robson. I'm at a slight disadvantage here since i'm not at all familiar with the self-help genera of writing but i am very familiar with Sabrinas intentions. She never proclaims to offer profound wisdom although i believe she does in her honesty and difficult confessions of self doubt. Sabrina has never promoted herself as a self-help author or the guru for young women but that's what others have considered or intended for her. The reviewer is right there is "no resolution" or "payoff", but when is there really in life? There is a dominance in our culture of such carefully choreographed and formulaic stories that will give you that feel good piggy back ride you desire and a hopeful ending with the appropriate amount of tears. So let us encourage other ways of being and telling even those things we would prefer left unsaid. In this case the payoff could be knowing your not alone but you would first have to allow your self to identify with your own self doubts. By the way, her art is beautiful but is because of these complexities and questions that unfortunately aren't about destination and resolution but rather contemplation and journey.
Rating:
Summary: How inspiring!
Review: I am constantly in awe of people who write down their feelings so poetically. I wish I was that lucky. Sabrina truly opens her soul. After reading this book, I have my second wind to continue with my journal. Yes, there are times when the writing is hard to decipher. However, overall, this is a beautiful and thought-provoking work of art.
| 
