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Title: A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0-375-50461-3 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (107 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Nothing but cliches
Comment: This book has nothing new or original to say. It is simply a collection of cliches and another proof that low quality writing can still come from recognized authors. It may only be 50 pages long. But, the whole book can really be summed up with "once in a while, stop and smell the roses". So, just save your dollar.
Rating: 1
Summary: Pure drivel.
Comment: This is not a book, it's a pompous, overpriced greeting card -- without any of the charm, cleverness, or tact of a good card. Appallingly presumptuous.
Rating: 5
Summary: Short and powerful through its simplicity and conciseness¿
Comment: It took me approximately twenty minutes to read A Short Guide to a Happy Life. It's obviously one of the shortest books in print.
But it's conciseness and simplicity is where its power lies. It's definitely a collector's book, too. It's the perfect book to leave right on the corner of your desk whenever you need to drink some sips of inspiration, or bring yourself back to the present. It's underlying message can be read on every page. And if you don't have the time to read, take a look at the photographs. The black and white pictures interspersed among the pages sum up Anna's simple message: get a life.
She humbly admits her lack of specific expertise in regard to academia or any other technical subject. Instead, she humanely writes of her experience of real life, and the beautiful details she has picked up along the way. That's probably why she writes such fantastic novels.
The death of her mother as a young college student changed Anna forever. It allowed her to see the beauty in every moment of her life, to embrace all of life. She writes of the absurdity about many things that mark American culture: "the rat race," complaining, career growth. Periodic quotations of deep minds also back up her message.
A quote sums up her life, and the essence of this book: "I never think of my life, or my world, in any big cosmic way. I think of it in all its small component parts: the snowdrops, the daffodils; the feeling of one of my kids sitting close beside me on the couch; the way my husband looks when he reads with the lamp behind him; fettuccine Alfredo, fudge; Gone with the Wind, Pride and Prejudice." It's a casual definition of mindfulness.
Reading this book is like meditating. It's a quick and powerful way to bring you back to the only thing you ever truly have: the present.
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Title: Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0804105278 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0345422783 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 25 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: One True Thing by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 044022103X Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blessings : A Novel by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0812969812 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Thinking Out Loud : On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0449909050 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 08 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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