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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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I think I had something else in mind when I started reading this book. One of my best friends suggested that I read it. She and I are both minimalists and I think that when she suggested it, my thought was that it would be on that subject. The only thing minimalist about this book is when Gretchen would clean her closet and other people's closets a few times through and found it to be an addiction (as someone who does the same, it is).

This book otherwise was about a woman who set monthly resolutions for herself throughout a year's time. She was changing her life little by little with these things she planned on doing and would work towards them.

While the concept is great, and I think one should find their happiness and seek out how to better themselves in different ways, it just wasn't the book for me. It had some inspiring insight and showed realness in Gretchen's life that many people would probably love.