It is also a book written by showrunner Sam Esmail (writer, director, etc.) and writer Courtney Looney.

It was released today and I was literally the first person in the store to get it this morning.

A few important establishing conceits:

* Elliot was cut off from us, his friend because the magic that connected us (USA Network) chose for Season 1 to come to an end. As crazy as this may sound, it is the actual explanation for why Elliot started writing what he would have shared with us in his notebook.

* Carla did not actually "fully" burn the notebook (despite the appearance that she did). As she puts it in the intro to the book:

"I feel this journal has a greater life to be had. It was hard for me not to burn it, like he wanted. When we were doing just that, burning this journal in the yard, I told Elliot why I burn books after reading them: Nothing stays the same, so I don't want to be the one changing it."

Anyway, that is what brings us here. The notebook covers the period when Elliot was mad at us for disappearing after the knock on the door until just before the jail reveal. I do not know how quickly or slowly I will be going through it yet (have to read it first and I will be digging in tonight).

I am going to use the rest of this post to provide some "Red Wheelbarrow" basics from the show to get everyone on the same page before I start exploring what I find in the book.

Why Red Wheelbarrow?