What the hell and I doing?!
I’m never going to find time to read all of these books. But they are so shiny and new and, and… book-y. Sigh. It’s a sickness…
LOVED this one:
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
Go out and read it! No, I don’t do book reviews as others do that much better than I can. But, I will list some favorite lines here:
“I feel sorry for the Brits, deprived as they are of the salutary benefits of the self-help industrial complex. Isn’t there something we can do for these sad souls? Perhaps a New Age Marshall Plan. I picture planeloads of Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer books and CDs dropped by airplane over the English countryside, with little parachutes slowing their descent to earth, of course, for there is nothing more painfully ironic than being clocked on the head by Deepak Chopra and being knocked unconscious.”
I particularly like this turn of phrase:
“Over the years, I have been spiritually promiscuous…”
And on a related note:
Maybe I should stop plucking my eyebrows…(read to the near end of the article and you’ll understand).
