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The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell

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adventurous funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

It was an enjoyable enough read, with the author moving to Denmark with her husband initially for a year. As a journalist, she went freelance, and this book does feel more like a well developed magazine article rather than a dry research book. I liked the chatty, easy to read writing style.  However, parts didn't sit well with me. Calling her husband legoman for the entirety of the book got old very quickly. Asking everyone she interviewed as part of her research to give their happiness out of ten with no one being lower than an 8 smacked of being a bit like she screened their happiness, cynic that I am, maybe I need to be more Danish and trust more....  I did consider a lower rating, but the entire idea of  their pasties wonderfully described and "hygge" the bunkering down for the winter with a blanket, a good book, and lit candles sold it to me.  It was an easy enough non-fiction read.
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medium-paced

5.0

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