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Summary: Fond Memories
Review: I read this book when I was a Marine stationed in Japan. I highlighted all the things in the book that made me happy. That was five years ago, and I still love to look through it; it brings a smile to my face.
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Summary: I've never read a book of things to be happy about.
Review: I suggest 14000 Things To Be Happy About . Example:Tabboganning. The plot is simple . The book tries to make you happy and laugh. If you are sad I garantee this book will make you happy . I liked this book because there wasn't a bad thing in the whole book. "Cheap lipstick, crystal chimes and medieval market squares " are my favorite things to be happy about. As an 11 year old boy This is my favorite book yet. From A-Z this book will make you happy!
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Summary: It's full of weird stuff!!!
Review: If you enjoy reading constant lists of stuff that you might not be happy about, This is the book for you!
Example: Radio Earplugs, The polar seas.
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Summary: Everything and Nothing
Review: It's a book about nothing and everything. It's a long list of places, moods, memories, and other miscellania.
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Summary: Jolly
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Summary: So Great When You're Feeling Down!
Review: My good friend knew someone who had purchased this book and thought it was cute. My dear companion bought the book and gave it to me as a gift because she knew I was not feeling very good about some things at the time. Of course, there is no cure for depression that lies within a cute little book like this one, but if there were one cute little book that could cure someone, it would be this. The book is a giant list of things that should make you happy. Some of the things are so cute you just can't help but smiling. I think that you probably won't read it cover to cover, but you'll read it a lot. But you really have to picture the images the author is mentioning to make it sink in how lucky we are to have some of the things we have. Where could we be without Scrabble or curtain calls or cereal? It's so fun to imagine all the little things we take for granted. And such a cute little book that this woman made.
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Summary: As Good As A Lightbox
Review: Our daughter Samantha gave us this book as a Christmas gift. She included two different colored highlighter pens for us to note our special "sparklies".
We look thru the book daily, reading one another's choices, and adding more to our own addendum.
The only improvement I could see, would be to include a few blank pages in the back for added inspirations.
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Summary: Total enjoyment
Review: This book allows one to go on a myrid of visual trips to worlds greatly remembered. Totally awesome!!!!!!
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Summary: Captures the tiny, beautiful things in life we forget about!
Review: This book inspired me to make my own "happy list" once upon a time!! It is basically 612 pages of things that make the author happy. You might say, "how boring!" But, it's not! She received a PHD in Linguistics and that's quite obvious, because not many people could pull this off! I used to use this as a mood book, where I would underline things that made me happy. It would always take away my bad mood, because it would remind me that there is no reason to focus on the bad when there are so many little things in life to remember!
Some examples:
a chance to sleep in
naming your baby
buying fresh flowers
the pleasure of water
smelling corncob-smoked bacon sizzling, maple-scented muffins, and pancakes off the griddle
hair towels
going to three museums in a row
roller skating around the blockSee what I mean? A lot of the things on the list have to do with food, really good, home cookin', so beware if you read it while hungry!! It reminds you of all the tiny, great things in the world! Keep it by your bedside table and drift off to sleep with corn muffins, lazy sunday afternoons, and kittens floating in your head!
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Summary: Fun Idea - Very Thought Provoking
Review: This book is just a list of 14,000 things. There is no order to the list. The book is small enough that you can carry it around with you. Many of the happy things will not make a reader happy. However, many of the happy things will make you, the reader, very happy. You will want to have a highlighter handy as you go through the book. A fun thing to do is to make your own list.
A few of the things on my list in no special order are: golden retrievers, library research, premoistened towelettes, the car heater, down quilts, dog walking, taking a walk when the world is too much, towels that absorb well, marble sinks, using candles, drawstrings, the wonder of life, dining out, country music, salad bars, and psychology.
The book helps one trigger memories of happy events in the past and this process brings happiness into the present. Everyone's list will be different because we all have different pasts. By using a highlighter one can make the list his/her own list of happy memories. Most of the things on the list are simple things available to anyone.
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