Happier at Home

Uhhh. I'm not sure how this got on my list or what I thought it would be. I just finished “There's No Such Thing About Bad Weather”, which is insights into the difference between Swedish and North American parenting. I thought this book would be something more like that, an examination of happiness told through the lens of the author's experience. Maybe that's what it was supposed to be but, man, after listening to this on 1.5 speed for 45 min I couldn't take it anymore. This book seems like it was a pamphlet that was expanded to a book. I can't handle the overly flowery descriptions of what your kids are doing every minute of the day which serve as padding.

After 45 minutes I'm not even sure what this book is supposed to be about, something about a “happiness project” but beyond that from what I can tell just reading the extremely long title of this book gives you enough information to infer the rest of the book. The other thing that put me off was the comparison early on made to Eat Pray Love, if that's what your striving for then I'm already out.