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Book Review of 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

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Helpful Score: 7


While my initial response to this book wasn't the violent knee-jerk reaction of some of the other reviewers, I did find this book a bit tiresome to read. There were several chapters that were lighthearted and fun and the ideas were things that can be universally applied to everyone's life but other chapters I thought it sounded like she was just trying to convince herself of something. (Perhaps that she is happy.) And some chapters I just plain disagreed with - for instance, that money can buy happiness.

All in all, it wasn't a bad read but it definitely isn't a favorite and I won't be holding onto it. And I won't be picking up any other of Mrs. Rubin's books.