The Book of Awesome - Neil Pasricha - Part 1

The Book of Awesome
- Neil Paricha

2017 Reading Challenge - Day 67

  March 8, 2017 

Book 20 - The Book of Awesome
by Neil Pasricha (2011)
 Part 1 - pages 1-416
Reading Time - 8 hours

This book was a find in a second-hand store and I've been reading a few pages at bedtime. It's made up of short little vignettes that document Awesome things in the world! Like when a parking spot opens up right in front of you. Or popping bubble wrap. Things like that. Those little moments that can give us a burst of pure joy. Sometimes expected, sometimes unexpected.

It was a nice easy evening read, a perfect way to wind down at the end of the day and think of those serendipitous moments when the stars align and thins go our way! Like finding $20 in a parking lot!

I'm realizing a couple of things during this book challenge:

1. I am easily distracted from my "official" list by other books. I'll read Silent Spring (which is on my list) and end up chasing other books that she mentions. Or I'll find a cool book in the airport and order it from the library.
2. Having started with some environmental books... and chasing after other like-minded books, the first 2 months of the challenge have been kind of heavy on ecology books. I'm hoping to get into some other ones. Maybe some economic books as the whole ecology thing points in that direction over and over again. The way we are living is not sustainable. So what are the options to a capitalist, consumerist society?