Chris Evans’ Cringey ‘Pain Hustlers’ Rap Is Inspired By a Real Rap Video Made By Ex-Pharma Executives What an adorable and charming romance story. READ THIS BOOK. Katherine Center is absolutely one of the very best love story writers.” LINDA

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What an awesome story! Once in, I couldn’t put it down! This makes four books that I’ve read by this author, and I will highly recommend her every time.” It’s almost impossible to make me cry. This book, these characters accomplished that. I loved every single reading minute.”Favorite quotes: “Are we going to talk about something real, or are we going to keep making excuses? Because I could be watching The Golden Girls right now.” Helen Carpenter is a 32-year-old teacher. She's had a tough time in the last year since her divorce. As a challenge to improve herself, she has signed up to do a survival trip in the Wyoming mountains. The night before she has to leave, she stops by her brother Duncan's house. He's supposed to petsit for her. She wasn't expecting to find a party going on, her brother nowhere to be found and her brother's best friend, Jake thanking her for driving him to the same survival camp. Here glowing, laughing,crying, wonderful, all-time-favourite stars. I loved, LOVED, loved this book so much! I had to create a new Goodreads shelf for it: all-time-favourite! I laughed A LOT…then I cried a bit and then I laughed while I was crying. I learned to look at things a different, better way. And while I did I had the greatest time ever.”

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Is there a rating higher than 5 stars? This is the 5th Katherine Center book I have read. I think this one passes How To Walk Away for me. I love the meaning behind the story, the journey to become a stronger person for yourself. The journey to find ways to be happy. It was amazingly written.” John Stamos Snapped At Elizabeth Taylor While Filming 'General Hospital': "Get That Old Lady Out Of My Eye Line!" Do you ever feel like a book sees who you are as a person? That’s how I felt about this book that it took all of my inner most monologue and put it to paper. Truly a magnificent story with a lot of heart. Highly recommend.” Divorcée Helen books a beginners' Appalachian Trail survivalist course. While seeking her brother Duncan before leaving, she finds her brother Jake so asks him to give him the keys to housesit. But it turns out sometimes disaster can teach you exactly the things you need to learn. Like how to keep going, 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.There are books you love, and then there are books that make you resent the rest of your life for preventing you from reading. Books that change the way you look at the world around you. Long story short: I loved this book.” Okay. I loved this book! Something I love about Center’s books is that you know she’s put the work in; I thought it with ‘Things You Save in a Fire’ (unsurprised to learn that her husband is a volunteer firefighter), and it comes through here too. She does actually walk us in Helen’s heavy, blister-busting boots as she experiences a wilderness adventure and the practicalities and hurdles thereof. She doesn’t go overly mushy with the self-discovery and being one with nature stuff; instead she predicates Helen’s slow transformation on her ability to recognise her own limitations and patterns, and being willing to connect with people and trust in herself. I loved it! . . . But let’s not pretend I don’t drool over Katherine Center’s beautiful books for anything as much as the romances. And the one in ‘Happiness’ is a doozy! Jake is the young, fresh as a penny popular college guy—Helen is his best friend’s older sister, and she feels every one of the years she’s got on Jake. But they have such spark, and the unrequited, slow-burn of it all is intoxicating! I think I also loved this romance because it did remind me of the one in my favourite Center book thus far, ‘Things You Save in a Fire’—which also had a kind of “himbo” love interest (except Center’s male characters are not unintelligent; they’re actually more emotionally intelligent and very much have Labrador-qualities of good guys loving on jaded and hurt women, giving them patience, space, and understanding that makes everything so much more delicious!)” O'Rourke, Ryan (June 29, 2023). "Ellie Kemper Joins a Life-Changing Hiking Group in 'Happiness for Beginners' Trailer". Collider . Retrieved July 1, 2023. What is a Dauphinoise Potato Pithivier? How Dana Accidentally Aced 'The Great British Baking Show' "Pastry Week" Technical Challenge

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Paul Hollywood Physically Glitched After Eating a Sour Showstopper on 'The Great British Baking Show' "Pastry Week" Her brother much younger brother Duncan talks her into signing up for a Wilderness Survival Course, in Wyoming, despite the fact that she is NOT very outdoorsy. 🤦🏻‍♀️ The way Katherine Center combined beautiful imagery, hilarious dialogue, quirky characters and sweet love story to create this story about overcoming your sadness to see the beauty in what is already surrounding you is why I fell deeply in love with book.”Happiness for Beginners” gave me a lot to think about and cherish. Having read all of Katherine Center’s novels (including her latest novel “What You Wish For” - featuring Duncan - Helen’s younger brother), I can now say that this is my favorite Katherine Center novel (and that’s saying something considering that I loved “Things You Save in a Fire” and “How to Walk Away”). There is just something about this storyline, the incredible message and the amazing characters, (whose romance I loved to pieces) that just got me.

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A sweet story about healing, growth, bravery and love. If you’re looking for something effortless and enjoyable—this one is a great read.” Following a divorce, Helen (Kemper) books an Appalachian Trail survivalist course where she meets Jake (Grimes), a friend of her younger brother. [1] Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Haunting in Venice’ on Hulu, Kenneth Branagh's Creepy Riff on Agatha Christie I loved the characters and kudos to Katherine Center for developing great dialogue between characters. She’s a gem of an author” Katherine Center has a true gift for creating a story arc that includes personal evolution, romance, challenges, disappointments, and joy in a way that avoids cliche and creates enough ebbing tension and resolution that the reader is left hungering for more.”

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One of the best reads of this decade for me, featuring an unforgettable, gutsy heroine and an equally endearing, swoon-worthy hero. What more could you ask for? You have to read this book! I’m adding this to every Katherine Center book that I have reviewed, because I truly mean this: I have always been able to understand and relate to everything Katherine Center writes. Her writing is so “open.” There are some authors or novels that I will struggle to connect with because the authors hide behind their words and I can’t feel or see them. When I connect with an author’s words on this level, it is as if I am having a deep, meaningful and wonderfully long chat with the author . . .” It was a story of resilience and courage, of losing and then finding, of being brave in love, and of gaining the wisdom that was always a part of you. Stream It Or Skip It: 'Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering Vs. Haysom' on Netflix, A True Crime Docu-Series About Who's Really Responsible For A Pair Of Gruesome Murders