Book: Happiness for Beginners
Author: Katherine Center
Pages: 322
This is my 54th book for the year
What Amazon says:
Helen Carpenter can't quite seem to bounce back. Newly divorced at 32, her life ha fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. So when her annoying younger brother, Duncan, convinces her to sign up for a hardcore wilderness survival course in the backwoods of Wyoming - she hopes it'll be exactly what she needs. Instead, it's a disater. It's nothing like she wants, or expects, or anticipates. She doesn't anticipate the surprise summer blizzard, for example -or the blisters, or the rutting elk, or the mean pack of sorority girls. And she especially doesn't anticipate that her annoying brother's even more annoying best friend, Jake, will show up for the exact same coure - and distract her. It gurns out sometimes disaster can teach you exactly the things you need to learn. Like how to keep ging, even when you think you can't. How being scared can make you brave. And how sometimes getting really, really lost is your only hope of getting found. This is a story that looks at houw our struggles lead us to our strengths. How love is always worth it. And how the more good things we look for, the more we find.
This books wasn't great. I did see the movie and enjoyed it, but the book just didn't capture my attention. It was a bit boring and predictable. A large section of the book takes place before they even get camping, which I felt was unnecessary. It did have some interesting parts when they were in the wilderness, but the ending was super cheesy.
Stars: 2.5
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