Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780449014394 (0449014398)
Publish date: September 4th 2012
Publisher: Random House Audio
Minutes: 273
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Adult,
Parenting,
Self Help,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Personal Development
Written in an engaging and easy to read style, I still felt that much of this was just plain ol' common sense. How to be happier at home by sections, show more affection to those you live with, spend some time each day doing something you love, show interest in others personal interests, etc. See c...
I didn't like this book as much as the first. Not much was new, and Rubin's failure to account for race, class and gender in her analysis of happiness made for a boring read. I did like some of the suggestions - scheduling fifteen minutes a day to do something unpleasant, for example - but this is d...
Fortunately I ended up enjoying this just as much as "The Happiness Project". I had wondered how much new stuff there would be to write on the subject, but I actually thought she managed quite nicely, and there were even some things I preferred about this book compared to THP (of course there were a...
I think Gretchen Rubin and I have very similar personalities, and that is especially why I like her books. I am not sure that reading this book would be the kind of thing that everyone gets something out of, though. Rubin acknowledges that her life is very privileged and if reading advice from someo...
I didn't like this as much as The Happiness Project, probably because it is so similar. It's a nice boost of inspiration, though, and I enjoyed it.
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