In The Happiness Project, she divides her project into twelve months, with a different area of focus each month and then three or four goals for each area to work specifically on. I loved the different philosophies and ideas she shared and I found myself pouring over the bibliography in the back about other people’s views on happiness, their own happiness projects, and other recommended reading. This could have made the book extremely dull, probably, but she works it in wonderfully. She doesn’t want to try and find happiness by leaving her life behind and jet-setting around the world (a la Elizabeth Gilbert), but rather by appreciating her own life, right there in her apartment.Īs you might expect from any English-major/law school/biography-writing person, she does a tremendous amount of reading and research about happiness before launching into her own project. If you aren’t familiar with the book, Gretchen Rubin decides that, despite having a happy marriage, two healthy children, a career she loves, and a life in New York City, she isn’t appreciating her life enough. I write four paragraphs and I still haven’t even talked about the book itself). (Here is why it takes me forever sometimes to write reviews. Reading this book on my own brought back those happy memories of my brand-new baby and our tiny, sunny little apartment in Boston. My mom was reading it when Ella was born and brought her copy out when she came to help and she read me large segments of the book aloud while I nursed Ella. As someone who doesn’t buy many books (hello, what is the library for if not to house all the books I’d like to read), there is no higher compliment.Īlso, my phone is now full of pictures of pages where something struck me enough that I needed to mark it, and library school taught me that librarians frown on you marking up library copies.Īctually, I’m not quite as late to the Happiness Project party as all that. And then I ordered my own copy so that I could mark it up and reread it as often as I liked. I checked this out from the library and read the whole thing. I’m a little overwhelmed, actually, by how much I adored this book. Better late then never, though, I suppose. I know I’m a couple years late on The Happiness Project.
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