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jennilynft's review against another edition
3.0
I didn't LOVE this one as much as I love her others- maybe because it felt a little repetitious?
Either way, as always, I gained some insight and found a few helpful meditations.
Either way, as always, I gained some insight and found a few helpful meditations.
maleficentbookdragon's review against another edition
1.0
I just could not get into this book and finish it. I finally gave up trying. It was a chore to keep reading.
I really wanted to like this book, but the writing style really started to bug me. I think she has a lot of really good things to say, and I plan to use some of her ideas (like rebounding), but the way they were presented was just not my cup of tea. It was too new agey, even for this "hippie". If I saw ~ing one more time I was going to throw something.
A book I did like along these lines was "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin. I could relate to the author much more.
I really wanted to like this book, but the writing style really started to bug me. I think she has a lot of really good things to say, and I plan to use some of her ideas (like rebounding), but the way they were presented was just not my cup of tea. It was too new agey, even for this "hippie". If I saw ~ing one more time I was going to throw something.
A book I did like along these lines was "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin. I could relate to the author much more.
kirstynicol's review
3.5
Enjoying this book but not my favourite of hers. You can tell it was the first book she had wrote. I enjoy uo listen to it not reading it
rachelteresacrawshaw's review
1.0
I failed to read this all the way through. I'm a bit of a self help junkie and had heard good things about this book, but was very disappointed. I did not like being spoken to like a teenager with no grammatical skills. To make old ideas more modern does not mean it is necessary to add the words "rockin!" to every other sentence and to purposely miss the letters off the end of words to make them sound more "straight talking" like - "Hanna dug my metaphor but I could tell she wasn't totally buyin' what I was sellin'"
This would have been a good idea for a book- someone young and fresh taking old ideas and putting them to the test in the modern world, but this just turns out to be a marketing ploy- put a half naked stereotypically beautiful blonde woman on the front of a book cover- read this and you could look like me!..... obviously it worked enough for me to pick it up off the library shelf, just not for long enough for me to read it all the way through.
I should have been put off by the tag line "A Hip guide to happiness!"
Not to be negative towards Gabrielle Bernstein, I'm sure she is a lovely woman and if it worked for her then that's great, but I won't be riding a unicycle to work through my feelings any time soon.
This would have been a good idea for a book- someone young and fresh taking old ideas and putting them to the test in the modern world, but this just turns out to be a marketing ploy- put a half naked stereotypically beautiful blonde woman on the front of a book cover- read this and you could look like me!..... obviously it worked enough for me to pick it up off the library shelf, just not for long enough for me to read it all the way through.
I should have been put off by the tag line "A Hip guide to happiness!"
Not to be negative towards Gabrielle Bernstein, I'm sure she is a lovely woman and if it worked for her then that's great, but I won't be riding a unicycle to work through my feelings any time soon.
readwithkaylaxo's review
5.0
This book came out when I was a freshman in high school. Usually when a self-help style book is that old I struggle to connect to it the way someone may have in 2010, but this book was different! If 15 year old Kayla had picked up this book she would’ve seen no purpose to it, but now it feels like kismet that I picked up this book that has so many lessons I wish my 15 year old self could have learned. I can’t wait to jump into some of the -ings and really focus in on beING the best me I can be.
I love Gabrielle’s work so much, and this book just reinforced that!
I love Gabrielle’s work so much, and this book just reinforced that!
mamey328's review
5.0
Fantastic!! If you do the work in this book, you're life will change! She puts her principles of A Course of Miracles in a comprehensive manner which I found spoke to me.
allisonsbeautifullife's review
2.0
This one was a little too "new age-y" for me though there were a few things that I was able to take away from it.
maleficentbookdragon's review
1.0
I just could not get into this book and finish it. I finally gave up trying. It was a chore to keep reading.
I really wanted to like this book, but the writing style really started to bug me. I think she has a lot of really good things to say, and I plan to use some of her ideas (like rebounding), but the way they were presented was just not my cup of tea. It was too new agey, even for this "hippie". If I saw ~ing one more time I was going to throw something.
A book I did like along these lines was "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin. I could relate to the author much more.
I really wanted to like this book, but the writing style really started to bug me. I think she has a lot of really good things to say, and I plan to use some of her ideas (like rebounding), but the way they were presented was just not my cup of tea. It was too new agey, even for this "hippie". If I saw ~ing one more time I was going to throw something.
A book I did like along these lines was "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin. I could relate to the author much more.
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