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4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun Idea - Very Thought Provoking, December 25, 2004
This review is from: 14,000 Things to Be Happy About (Paperback)
This book is just a list of 14,000 things. There is no order to the list. The book is small enough that you can carry it around with you. Many of the happy things will not make a reader happy. However, many of the happy things will make you, the reader, very happy. You will want to have a highlighter handy as you go through the book. A fun thing to do is to make your own list.
A few of the things on my list in no special order are: golden retrievers, library research, premoistened towelettes, the car heater, down quilts, dog walking, taking a walk when the world is too much, towels that absorb well, marble sinks, using candles, drawstrings, the wonder of life, dining out, country music, salad bars, and psychology.
The book helps one trigger memories of happy events in the past and this process brings happiness into the present. Everyone's list will be different because we all have different pasts. By using a highlighter one can make the list his/her own list of happy memories. Most of the things on the list are simple things available to anyone.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
So Great When You're Feeling Down!, May 6, 2000
This review is from: 14,000 Things to Be Happy About (Paperback)
My good friend knew someone who had purchased this book and thought it was cute. My dear companion bought the book and gave it to me as a gift because she knew I was not feeling very good about some things at the time. Of course, there is no cure for depression that lies within a cute little book like this one, but if there were one cute little book that could cure someone, it would be this. The book is a giant list of things that should make you happy. Some of the things are so cute you just can't help but smiling. I think that you probably won't read it cover to cover, but you'll read it a lot. But you really have to picture the images the author is mentioning to make it sink in how lucky we are to have some of the things we have. Where could we be without Scrabble or curtain calls or cereal? It's so fun to imagine all the little things we take for granted. And such a cute little book that this woman made.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Captures the tiny, beautiful things in life we forget about!, May 26, 2003
This review is from: 14,000 Things to Be Happy About (Paperback)
This book inspired me to make my own "happy list" once upon a time!! It is basically 612 pages of things that make the author happy. You might say, "how boring!" But, it's not! She received a PHD in Linguistics and that's quite obvious, because not many people could pull this off! I used to use this as a mood book, where I would underline things that made me happy. It would always take away my bad mood, because it would remind me that there is no reason to focus on the bad when there are so many little things in life to remember! Some examples: a chance to sleep in naming your baby buying fresh flowers the pleasure of water smelling corncob-smoked bacon sizzling, maple-scented muffins, and pancakes off the griddle hair towels going to three museums in a row roller skating around the block See what I mean? A lot of the things on the list have to do with food, really good, home cookin', so beware if you read it while hungry!! It reminds you of all the tiny, great things in the world! Keep it by your bedside table and drift off to sleep with corn muffins, lazy sunday afternoons, and kittens floating in your head!
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