happiness for beginners by katherine center

Now – before I give you the lowdown, just know that yes indeed, this book is undoubtedly a by-product of the 2012 bookish fever for ‘Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail’ by Cheryl Strayed. Which I finally did this week, and with ‘Happiness for Beginners.’ A new-to-me author I discovered in 2020 and instantly appreciated that she had a backlist I could drip-feed to myself when the slumps got deep. It’s been an uphill battle to get back into the swing … enter Katherine Center. Everything has been thrown off kilter and the last thing I felt like doing with a foggy head and post-Covid chest infection (oh yeah, severe asthmatic triple-boosted still felt that rona bite!) – the last thing I was even capable of doing was reading, for pleasure.

It has been a rocky, rocky start to 2022.

‘Happiness for Beginners’ was the 2015 women’s fiction novel by American author Katherine Center. And how the more good things we look for, the more we find. It’s a story that looks at how our struggles lead us to our strengths. Happiness for Beginners is Katherine Center at her most heart-warming, captivating best-a nourishing, page-turning, up-all-night read about how to get back up. And how sometimes getting really, really lost is your only hope of getting found. Like how to keep going, even when you think you can’t. kiss her.īut it turns out sometimes disaster can teach you exactly the things you need to learn. And she especially doesn’t anticipate that her annoying brother’s even-more-annoying best friend, Jake, will show up for the exact same course-and distract her, derail her, and. She doesn’t anticipate the surprise summer blizzard, for example-or the blisters, or the rutting elk, or the mean pack of sorority girls. It’s nothing like she wants, or expects, or anticipates. 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. Newly divorced at thirty-two, her life has fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. Helen Carpenter can’t quite seem to bounce back.

Happiness for beginners by katherine center