zmre 's review for:

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama XIV, Douglas Carlton Abrams

3.0

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I enjoyed this book. These are two phenomenal men and they have a lot of wisdom to share. It would easily be 4 stars and maybe 5 stars, except for one thing: I feel like the book was repetitive. Themes and even specific stories would recur in a way that was distracting to me. I like how the author sprinkled in bits of science, but I also felt that most of the time it got very light treatment -- none of the nuances of the studies were brought in, only the summary of the conclusions of those studies, which left me wondering how they came to those conclusions.