The Authenticity Project: The feel-good novel you need right now

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It’s a a feel-good kind of read, maybe just the thing for the holidays with an original, well-executed storyline. It reminded me of that warm uplifting movies that we like to watch from time to time, because we know that each storyline will have a happy ending and that is exactly why one should read this book. Many thanks to the Penguin Random House Canada for the complimentary e-copy of this book through NetGalley.

The notebook contains a story – an authentic story – of one person who admits he’s very lonely – Julian, an artist who used to be quite famous. As their lives intersect more and more, and they all benefit from helping each other, rather than focusing on their own problems. It all had the feel of a Sophie Kinsella novel, with imperfect characters on a road to understanding their truer selves. I disliked this ridiculous feel-good novel, stuffed with clichés and implausible caricatures of people, situations, and dialogue, and presumably sponsored by Apple *. This entry does end up changing Julian’s life, and the lives of all who find the book, as they share their true selves on it’s pages.She tucked the book into the space alongside the till with the spare menus and flyers from various suppliers.

comfort read που θα σας αγγίξει και θα ζεστάνει τις μέρες σας, τότε «Το Πράσινο Σημειωματάριο» είναι αυτό που θέλετε!Six strangers with one universal thing in common: their lives aren’t always what they make them out to be. She re-creates in magical detail the lives of Alaska's homesteaders in both of the state's seasons (they really only have two) and is just as specific and authentic in her depiction of the spiritual wounds of post-Vietnam America. In fact all the characters bring something wonderful to this story that I dreaded getting nearer to the end as I was enjoying their company so much. A sense of community is certainly part of the story but when you have too many side plots due to too many characters, it's usually best to scale back a bit. I felt like shaking her and telling her to get a real life instead of a pretend one displayed on Instagram.

A former high-flying city lawyer whose proudest achievement is a five-star hygiene rating for her café and loves nothing better than reading a business plan? I let the paint dry solid on the palette and, one unbearably long night, destroyed all my unfinished canvases; ripped them into multicolored streamers, then diced them into confetti with Mary's dressmaking scissors.Desperate to confess the deep loneliness he feels, Julian begins The Authenticity Project – a small green notebook containing the truth about his life – to pass on and encourage others to share their own. Little by little the notebook finds its way into the hands of those who need to say things they can’t tell others. In this, their plights/plots were bland and boring and I’m afraid I had trouble liking some of the characters, let alone loving them. Then, as soon as he was gone, about ten minutes later, she doubled back so that she could read the words on the gravestone.

Hazard is an interesting character in that he’s a really obnoxious on the one hand, but has the self-awareness to take himself off on a retreat to Thailand to detox. She'd spent all day talking to people, serving them coffees and cakes, chatting about the weather and the latest celebrity gossip.

As in, a man his age would have been well into his 40s during the 80s and, therefore, his love for the clothes and music from that decade felt a little confusing and wrong.