Reviews

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 by Gretchen Rubin

alidb's review against another edition

4.0

I enjoyed this book-it inspired me (like many other people) to look into my life a bit more and attempt to find happiness. However, there were a couple chapters or sections that I just skimmed as I found them long winded or irrelevant. All in all it was a great book, interesting topic. Very easy to related to!

readlikefire's review against another edition

informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.25

brittlesreads's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

r0b3rta's review against another edition

1.0

I read January and part of her February happiness project and then I could go no further. I decided to read a few pages of the last chapters to gauge if I just was not giving the book a chance...that cemented my decision to drop the book. If you want to do your own happiness project you are better off reading other books. I felt her Happiness Project was more of an extrinsic project, nothing intrinsic there.

fbroom's review against another edition

4.0

Rubin is happy. She has a great family and a great career, but she thinks that she should be happier and more appreciative of what she already has. She decides on changing little things in every day life because little things make a difference. She does that by focusing on one aspect of her life every month using a resolution chart:

http://www.gretchenrubin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/RESOLUTION_CHART-Combined.pdf

While I only liked few of the chapters, I liked the idea of focusing on one aspect of your life every month where you try to do little incremental changes. The book was a delightful read.

aguz1020's review against another edition

informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

mghortonvt's review against another edition

Very good. A book that definitely gets one thinking.

29000xxxx's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.5

roglows's review against another edition

5.0

Really enjoyed, especially reading a month at a time - as the chapters are written.

x_librarian's review against another edition

3.0

I enjoyed hearing about some of Rubin's projects and I even checked out her blog, but by the end I was ready to be done. I liked Rubin's honesty, but the lists of failures hardly seemed balanced against her stories of success.