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The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun - Community Reviews back

by Gretchen Rubin
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Freda's Voice
Freda's Voice rated it 8 years ago
Well then...I wanted more from this book. I don't know, maybe I thought it was more self-help than memoir. I still enjoyed it though, just differently than I thought I would.I read through Gretchin's personal journey to happiness. She researched and put things to use that she learned, all in the nam...
Abandoned by user
Abandoned by user rated it 10 years ago
This book was everywhere a few years ago. This wasn't a scribd book - I actually own it. I bought it a while back when my wonderful husband was having a bit of a life crisis and I thought that maybe it would provide me with some insight so I could help him through. His life crisis has passed, and I ...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 11 years ago
I'm most of the way through this book and will probably finish it. I've enjoyed parts but there's a lot of fluff in between the enjoyable bits. Also Rubin has used the word q***r twice already. This book was written in 2009. Use a different word (strange works nicely). There's so much overlap be...
Josiehime
Josiehime rated it 11 years ago
Did not finish this one, and I feel kinda bad about that. I really gave it the best chance I could. I was excited when I started reading it, but I had serious trouble relating to or liking the author. So I let it expire on my library download without really pushing myself to make it to the end. Mayb...
Lit Lovers Lane
Lit Lovers Lane rated it 11 years ago
The non-fiction stunt genre. Before I read this book, I’d never heard this term, which refers to the wave of new authors who undertake an activity for a period of time and then chronicle the process. The name lends a somewhat unsavory whiff to this literature...indeed many would die rather than call...
Ryan DeJonghe - The Avid Reader
Ryan DeJonghe - The Avid Reader rated it 11 years ago
Good news! If you are married, have some free time, and some money in the bank, but don’t feel satisfied with life, this is a great book to get you on track to becoming more happy. If you aren’t married, work two or more jobs, or have debt collectors calling you regularly, then this may not be the b...
Listening to the Silence
Listening to the Silence rated it 11 years ago
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin3.5 Stars, rounded to 4After a pretty rough year in 2013, I decided that 2014 was going to be different. I wasn't going to let my emotions and situations outside of my control get the best of me anymore. I declared that I would be happy in 2014. So I thought, w...
Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it 12 years ago
Author embarks on a year of finding herself and trying to find some measure of happiness in that year. Part of the journey is in trying to discover what happiness means to her, originally blogged this book was quite useful in making me think about my life and living it as me not as someone else thi...
XOX
XOX rated it 12 years ago
A make yourself happy by thinking about it kind of time wasting book that I really dislike, but get very popular that it starts getting on my nerve.There, I said it.Another married woman who has too much time on her hand.Just to be fair, I didn't read every word of this crap. I just skimmed through ...
Andra
Andra rated it 12 years ago
Not terribly impressed. Probably wouldn't recommend this to anyone. Interesting idea but I could not connect with the author much.
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