The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

The Year of Living Danishly

My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

2015 • 304 pages

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15

This book was a little boring. The problem is that it's a mixture of non-fiction (facts about Denmark) and a novel (the story of a journalist moving to Denmark for a year), but none of the two is good enough. Facts and statistics are outdated (despite the “recent studies show” lines without any date indication) and the novel itself doesn't have any conflict or interesting plot, you can't emotionally connect with the main character (and her husband - whose name remains unknown: she calls him “Lego Man” and that in itself was, well... cringy.

December 19, 2020