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BarbaraJean
The Book of Joy | Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu
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#5JoysFriday!

1. Sunday jazz
2. Roses & larkspur from the garden
3. Making plans to print up Learned Slattern tote bags
4. Frogzwilliam Darcy: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1868740873949610
5. Listening at whim to my newly-restored music library and discovering that I still know every word to Lisa Loeb‘s “Stay” 😂

kspenmoll ❤️❤️❤️ 6d
TheBookHippie Yes tote bags!!!!!!!! I‘m so in!!! ♥️ 6d
Amiable Yay!! Learned Slatterns unite! 6d
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BarbaraJean @TheBookHippie It is happening!!! @Amiable Please note the italics on “Clarissa” 😁 6d
dabbe 💚💜💚 6d
Amiable @BarbaraJean I noticed and gave two thumbs up from here! 👍🏼👍🏼😀 5d
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julesG
The Book of Joy | Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu
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Thanks for the tag, @TheSpineView

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1) a pair of wristwarmers is off to Paris

2) Spotless series

3) put together a small non-Lego set of potted succulents

4) haircut

5) cats lounging on my unmade bed, best excuse not having to make it 😉

Bookwormjillk That's always my excuse too. Can't wake up the babies! 6d
Leftcoastzen 😻😻👏 that is a beautiful shade of green on the warmers ! 6d
TheSpineView YW! 💙🐈 6d
dabbe 💙💚💙 6d
AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 6d
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Susanita
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Thank you for the goodies! Especially the bookmark just when I‘m looking for one! The note is sweet as well. ❤️

dabbe Yay! 💚💜💚 1w
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GingerAntics
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Bailedbailed

This book is insufferable. I‘m 14% of the way in and cannot listen another minute. This man needs to check his biases. All fat people are slothful and gluttonous. Diabetics never do what he tells them, so they never get better. The loss of bookstores are proof of Americans‘ unhappiness. Depression is because of a history of “chronic, excessive reward.”
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GingerAntics America needs to get back to being the city on a hill. Addicted to Love is only popular because of YouTube. The worst part is when he suggests that everyone should avoid pleasure because it detracts from happiness, and no one (most people, not even philosophers) really knows what happiness is, but not to worry, he does; and he‘ll tell you if you can get through his insufferable nonsense. #RobertHLustig #TheHackingOfTheAmericanMind #insufferable 2w
marleed Ohh, sounds horrendous and I‘ll stop at 0% 🤣 2w
GingerAntics @marleed the other two people on Litsy who read this really liked it, but I cannot even. 1w
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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1) I mostly read sitting in my recliner or on my porch. I do read lying down every night before falling asleep, but usually have to reread those pages!! 📃 😴

2) I just started this one and already love the quirky fmc, Isadora 💛

#Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView I had a screen porch growing up and miss it. It would be great to read without the bugs eating me up. 3w
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hangzhang98
The Book of Joy | Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu
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One of the best books to provide true peace!

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Eggs
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 😍 1mo
Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you 🙏🏻 1mo
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Robotswithpersonality
The Invoice: A Novel | Jonas Karlsson
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Panpan

Nope. When I go into a book knowing there's a semi-absurd premise, something where you're going to work extra hard to suspend disbelief and not think too hard about the details, I'm looking for the result to be charming or meaningful. I feel like this book didn't manage either.
Started out thinking it could have been a novella, now convinced that amount of plot and original rumination minus the redundancies would have fit in a short story. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? And even at 200 pages, I'm not sure you have a completed text. Case in point: The consequence being built to was just removed at the last minute without a clear picture of what it actually would have been!
I think it's among the scientific literature nowadays that people's natural happiness level varies person to person, something to do with genetics and brain chemistry, beyond what outside factors could modify it, and this story felt like a
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Robotswithpersonality 3/?cul-de-sac, a dead end just proving that point. Where we find this one person who's outlook/personality makes them more content with their life.
The text just barely grazes against the whole, 'many types of privilege, reasons why he's actually very lucky even if one might not rate his life spectacular' which at this point feels so well covered in attempting to gain a more intersectional understanding in non-fiction of how various minorities
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Robotswithpersonality 4/? are attempting to navigate the limiting systems in place, that it just made me tired to read the surface-level acknowledgment here.
And really most of this book, wherein one might assume the author wants us to recognize the many sources of contentment and simple joys in our lives, is chock-full of anxiety-generators: a large unpaid expense coming out of the blue, the idea that 'the best things in life are free' is no longer a reality, and you
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Robotswithpersonality 5/? might not get to enjoy them anymore, and then there's this guy who once he gets a customer service contact's direct number feels entitled to call her at all hours of the day and night!
Maybe there's an unconvincing romantic thread that's supposed to be blossoming in those phone conversations but for most of it he's being a whiny, entitled ass.
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Robotswithpersonality 6/6 [Sidebar: If you want an all night phone conversation that actually rests comfortably within a burgeoning relationship, watch Elizabethtown.]
I just - if the author was sincere then I'm sorry I didn't receive whatever he was trying to get across. If this was actually a cynical cash grab in the YOLO/self-help adjacent/contemporary feel-good genre than I'm not surprised and also very comfortable with the fact that I basically just roasted it. 🔥
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AvidReader25
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Mehso-so

The author traveled to every country in the world & this memoir is about creating your own quest & completing it. While I think he comes from a place of privilege to be able to encourage people to drop everything and follow their dreams, some of his tips were helpful. I love tangible goals, like visit all 50 states & read all Shakespeare‘s plays.

“The more prepared you are, more spontaneous you can be.”

“A measurable goal is a good companion.”

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Bookwormjillk
Hygge: The Danish Art of Happiness | Marie Tourell Sderberg
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#HyggeHour

I have been meaning to read this book for years!

TheBookHippie Oooo nice! 2mo
Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛💛 1mo
AllDebooks ❤️ 1mo
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