Thrive

Absolutely loved this book! Despite it taking me a good half year to read (I had started and was clearly not ready for it yet so had to stat again a few months later), this is one of those books that slowly and kindly leads you to open your eyes to a set of habits/ingrained thoughts & emotions that you weren't aware you were carrying around with you to your detriment.
Interspersed with beautiful stories about her mother (I would've liked growing up with such a role model!!!), Ariana Huffington blends research with her and other people's experience in order to show us that there is more to life than money and power.
I liked this book so much that I actually sat down with a notebook whilst reading it and took notes and wrote down quotes. I've never felt the need to do that before but this seemed to fit.
I will be going back to this book over and over again - a true joy to read.

Add another book to my list of good books on happiness. Arianna Huffington found herself lying on the floor in a pool of blood, and it was a wake-up call for her. She was driven toward success and realized she was neglecting what she came to call the third metric of success: well-being, wisdom, and wonder. She closely looks at how we can have well-being, wisdom, and wonder in our own lives, and uses research to back up her every suggestion.

Do not go for the audiobook unless you are incredibly accustomed to non-native english speakers reading english.
Though the narrator does a good job of saying all the words the pronounciations are not clear and often the emphasis is on the wrong parts of the words, the narration does not match the flow flow and is not easily understood. I find this a strange choice for a book like this. If the book were written by someone who was also heavily accented I could understand the choice and as the written word patterns would match the narration and it would likely be quite pleasant to listen to, but this was just unbearable.
I'll have to read this one later instead.