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benrogerswpg's review
3.0
It was pretty good!
Not as good as [b:The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun|6398634|The Happiness Project Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun|Gretchen Rubin|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1256849491l/6398634._SY75_.jpg|6587328], but it was still a good read.
3.0/5
Not as good as [b:The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun|6398634|The Happiness Project Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun|Gretchen Rubin|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1256849491l/6398634._SY75_.jpg|6587328], but it was still a good read.
3.0/5
jenleah's review against another edition
I don't personally need this book, none of the tips really applied to my life. Time to move on to the next book in the queue.
notesonbookmarks's review against another edition
4.0
I THINK this was a re read for me, as quite a bit of it sounded really familiar and I already had an Audible copy of it. But even if it was, it was worth going through again. Although most of Gretchen's happiness goals are not ones that I would apply personally, her overarching message and means of goal setting and achieving are birth so helpful to delve into. Also, no one can argue that her books are not IMPECCABLY researched. This is the 3rd of hers that I've read, and while I will continue to rank Better Than Before as my favorite for the foreseeable future, Happier at Home is also great.
brendaclay's review against another edition
3.0
In this memoir/self-help book, Gretchen Rubin builds on her revelations from The Happiness Project. For each month of the school year, she makes resolutions to increase her and her family's happiness within their home life. As a domestically oriented person, I thought I would love it, but this book fell short of the original for me. It was so repetitive that I could practically recite her Commandments and Truths by the end of the book. Maybe that was the idea, but for me it was a little tiresome. Still, I like Rubin a lot, appreciate her thoughts, and was inspired to tackle a few projects of my own!
bfordham's review against another edition
2.0
Muddled mix of memoir and self-help. Has some great quotes from various sources, but Rubin's writing is not engaging at all.
afox98's review against another edition
2.0
I really enjoyed her first book. Since I read that book, I started following her on Twitter, then stopped because she annoyed me so much bragging about herself. This book did not have a lot of fresh new material… It felt like a rehash of the first book. Also, she really comes across as spoiled and whiny in this book, in my opinion. Which makes me not want to follow her advice, if I'm going to end up being like her. Disappointed.
marshmallowbooks's review against another edition
4.0
This was a very pleasant read. The only other book by Gretchen Rubin that I have read is The Four Tendencies, so I don't really know how this book compares to her original Happiness Project. However, I have been listening to her podcast "Happier" for about a year and I do plan on reading her other books as well.
My favorite thing about Gretchen's Happier at Home Project is that it is Gretchen's project. She isn't writing to tell readers how to be happier at home. This is not an advice book, or a step-by-step how-to book. It is simply Gretchen telling how she determined things that she felt would make her happier in her own home environment, and then she did them, and she was happier.
The only thing she touts as something readers could do is create their own happiness projects, but by no means does that have to include any of the same things she did. You don't want to or need to take driving lessons? Then don't. You do want to travel more (even though Gretchen doesn't)? Then do.
I was inspired by some of her exact happiness steps, particularly about time, her focus for January. My greatest takeaway from this book is a quote by Thoreau: "I love a broad margin to my life." I feel exactly the same way and love that phrase to describe something I have never really been able to state nearly as eloquently. For other steps she followed, I either determined they would not be for me, or identified some element that held meaning for me, but I would tackle in a much different way if I were setting the goal for myself.
I read the actual book, but I have listened to the Happier podcast often enough that Gretchen's voice read the words in my head which was not at all a bad thing.
My favorite thing about Gretchen's Happier at Home Project is that it is Gretchen's project. She isn't writing to tell readers how to be happier at home. This is not an advice book, or a step-by-step how-to book. It is simply Gretchen telling how she determined things that she felt would make her happier in her own home environment, and then she did them, and she was happier.
The only thing she touts as something readers could do is create their own happiness projects, but by no means does that have to include any of the same things she did. You don't want to or need to take driving lessons? Then don't. You do want to travel more (even though Gretchen doesn't)? Then do.
I was inspired by some of her exact happiness steps, particularly about time, her focus for January. My greatest takeaway from this book is a quote by Thoreau: "I love a broad margin to my life." I feel exactly the same way and love that phrase to describe something I have never really been able to state nearly as eloquently. For other steps she followed, I either determined they would not be for me, or identified some element that held meaning for me, but I would tackle in a much different way if I were setting the goal for myself.
I read the actual book, but I have listened to the Happier podcast often enough that Gretchen's voice read the words in my head which was not at all a bad thing.
erinbruels's review against another edition
lighthearted
slow-paced
2.0
The book starts well enough with an interesting premise but completely falls apart after the first month of challenges. Most of the chapters are unrelated to home and fail to offer anything useful or compelling. It reads as if the author was under pressure from an editor just to write something so she wrote a bunch of repetitive quotes with uninspired goals just to get words on the page.Â