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42/22 I didn‘t expect this book to give a balanced view of the Danish way of life, but I think Russell did a good job of it. Did I still end up wishing I could live there? Yes. But I can also see that, as the population of there whole country is less than my capital city the lessons to be learned for my own life are the ones I can implement in my home as the national changes would never be viable here. #booked2022 #authorisajournalist

Lots of thought provoking ideas. Made me laugh often too😂

After many days of no mail, I finally hit the jackpot (and soon the teapot!). Thank you #litsyteaswap
Thank you one & all!

I loved this #BookSpin book!

Journalist Helen‘s husband gets the opportunity to move to Jutland in Denmark to work at Lego. They agree to go over for a year, and Helen sets herself the task of uncovering the secret to Danish happiness (they are known as the world‘s happiest country).
Despite this she doesn‘t shy away from the bad parts of Danish living such as sexism, and in the newest 2020 chapter, racism.

A great read :)

#JumpStart2021 #20in4

Starting my Sunday morning finishing this book with a chai latte and doggy cuddles 🥰

Shame I have no pastries though!

#JumpStart2021 #20in4

My aims for #20in4 are to finish The Year of Living Danishly (I am nearly half way through) and finish The Seven Sisters (10 hrs left on my audiobook).
That should get me fairly close to 20 hours I would think! ☺️

The Seven Sisters will be my third #Brazil book, and we will be getting Brazilian takeaway tomorrow! I am excited to try someone else‘s Feijoada and to taste some Coxinhas and Pao de Queijo!

#JumpStart2021 #BookSpin #FoodAndLit

Managed to squeeze in a couple of chapters of my #BookSpin book today.
I have always found differences between the way countries live intriguing, and who doesn‘t want to know more about the happiest country in the world? ☺️

The bookmark is one of 3 I got for Christmas. I love it 🤣
The other 2 are quite delicate so I will need to be more careful with them!

#JumpStart2021

So... Now I need to move to Denmark 🤣 I really enjoyed this non fiction account of a woman's first 12 months of living in Denmark... Very interesting!

Now chosen my next #TBRDeckOfCards read... There is definitely something to be said for removing decision making from myself!!

If you have a Danish fantasy, read this. All that you probably think is true, but this book may change how you think about it. https://www.facebook.com/1082882538/posts/10221771262365775/

I picked up the tagged book on a whim, and loved it so much that I decided to dive straight into all things Scandi, and arrive at the #hygge party three years too late. I'm really looking forward to spending a quiet December with all of these books, thanks to Russell's investigation on why the Danes are "the happiest people on earth". Highly recommended, especially to my fellow Americans. The contrasts between our nations are sobering indeed.

What fun to read about this happy culture during a pandemic with our virtual book club, while travel is impossible! The author was so comedically refreshing and I loved her take on her plunge into Danish Living.

A British woman moves to Denmark for a year when her husband is hired by LEGO. She researches their claim to be the happiest nation on earth. She delves into a fascinating mix of maternity leave, hobbies, alcohol, strict rules, holiday traditions, and trust. I appreciated her skepticism as she uncovered “the Danish way” and revealed a much different culture than I‘m accustomed to. It was written with such wit and humor that it‘s a fun read.

Saturday night

Littens, I‘ve found my new mantra!

Coronastyle

Trying to survive this pandemic

Did I mention my current read?

This one caught my eye because my godson and his wife moved last autumn from San Diego to Veijle (he works for LEGO), because I‘m studying Danish, and because one of my current YouTube buddies is Anglo-Danish writer and actor Sandi Toksvig (check our her “Tox Vox” series there). IMHO, I think the Danes are on to something.

Fun, quick read that makes sense. When you have a good social welfare network, less income inequality, and trust in each other, society functions really well. Having traditions, adult clubs, reasonable work hours, and open minds helps, too.

Is it possible to have this in a more populous, less homogeneous country, I don‘t know, but I do know it‘s worth trying. 4⭐️

#readingeurope2020 #denmark @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle

I really enjoyed this. Yes, she‘s very privileged and it‘s all middle class problems. She reminded me of Carrie Bradshaw! But I really enjoyed learning about how the Danish live, esp when compared with Britain, and I soooo want to move to Denmark now!! #Denmark #ReadingEurope2020

A book which details Helen Russell‘s year in Denmark and her attempts to discover the secret behind the Danish‘s happiness. A fun and frivolous read.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. I loved this little book. Highly recommend this to all.

Such an entertaining book!

Still in a slump and not able to handle much new content. Re-reading/listening to this one as I was thoroughly entertained the first time round #reread #hygge

Now I wanna move to Denmark! But seriously, I really enjoyed this book and information in it. Kinda made me sit back and think, sure if the government was different we might be happier, but there are a lot of things in our own every day lives we could change ourselves...and be happier for it.

I asked the followers of my blog to help me choose my first read of the new year. Here it is, along with one of my most #Hygge bookmarks.

When her husband gets a job with Lego, journalist Helen leaves her London job to accompany him to Jutland and freelance while investigating what it is that makes Denmark the happiest country in the world. This book is basically a series of lifestyle pieces on life in Denmark tied together with the story of the couple's first year in their new country. #Fascination would describe how I've felt about reading it while in Denmark. #SeptemberDanes

Somehow, we have made it to the middle of September already! Time is flying 💨

Here are the prompts for #SeptemberDanes for everyone who needs a refresher or are joining in now. I‘m enjoying all your posts, so keep it up awesome littens 👏

I can‘t believe we are this close to September, and the end of Summer! And while I can‘t offer you all a year of living Danishly, I can offer you a month of Danish music! 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

I have teamed up with the lovely @Cinfhen and are bringing some #SeptemberDanes for all of you creative littens! So join us in the September photo challenge, and make sure to tag both of us in your posts, and dance along to some Danish tunes! 💃

The title was intriguing and the book was full of trivia and anecdotes about living in rural Denmark. Since her husband worked for Lego headquarters, there were little snippets of info about working there as well. The couple learned to adapt to the local lifestyle with humorous trial and error, and managed to have a baby, a dream they‘d been losing hope on.

#lego #movingishard #denmark

Thoroughly recommend this book. It could be read in chunks or one go. It's a humorous yet informative account of her year, with lots of statistics and anecdotes. It also made me think about happiness and life :)

Love this!
Not too smarmy and great in its delivery of the Danish culture.
Plus it's a country I'd love to visit.

Can you get hygge in June? Yes! I found this to be an entertaining memoir with a sprinkling of more serious nonfiction. As a spoiler for page 5, the author actually does move to Denmark, and somehow that surprised me 🤷🏼‍♀️ 😂
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Really enjoyed this one. The author is a writer from England who moves with her husband to Denmark. She tells the story of their year while looking for all the reasons why the Danes are the happiest people in the world. Along the way she learns some lessons that any of us can apply to our lives.

1. Tagged book
2. Amsterdam
3. A cabin, in the woods, on a mountain, alone 💙
4. I prefer to drive but there are just some places you just can‘t reach that way
5. BOTH!

#Manicmonday

Nope nope nope! Just a book about getting “free” stuff and not understanding the value of work or money. 🙅🏼‍♀️😡🙅🏼‍♀️😡🙅🏼‍♀️😡🙅🏼‍♀️😡

Helen Russell is fresh, funny, and honest in her review of the happiest country on Earth. I loved the month to month review of her adventures in trying to figure out the Danish way of living and what makes the Danes just so darn happy all the time. I left the book feeling warm and fuzzy inside and really wanting to visit Denmark as soon as the bank account allows 😊❤️

# 4....... TRUTH!! As a person from the US that is living in Spain I can tell you it‘s not easy 😂

Fun and an insight into my friend in Denmark's life. Time to hygge things up....

I‘m listening to this one and it‘s so fun. I‘ve always been a Hygge kind of person without knowing the word for it. I‘m a little obsessed with the lighting of my spaces and we have an inordinate number of lamps in our house, or at least my husband thinks so. I need my pools of light.

It‘s fun to hear about Denmark from an outsider.

An interesting insight into life in Denmark.

Listening to this while making bookmarks. Don‘t know how I feel about it. Keep going? https://bookmarkloves.etsy.com/

Just hanging out at the airport, diving into a new book.

This seemed right up my alley but I just didn‘t care for it enough to push through to the end. I love travel memoirs, but I just didn‘t warm up to Russell or care for her voice. The beginning was promising, but she juxtaposes facts about Denmark with really fluffy anecdotes that didn‘t seem cohesive or flow well. And her commitment to asking every Danish person she met how happy they are on a scale of 1 to 10 was really annoying and repetitive.

Overall, I enjoyed this light and breezy travel memoir. The author, a stressed-out magazine editor from the U.K., writes about her year of living in Jutland, Denmark after her husband takes a job with the LEGO headquarters.

Russell is oddly naive about certain things.

Even if you can‘t (or would rather not) pack up and move to Denmark, you might pick up a few tips to living a happier life wherever you are.

#AudibleDailyDeal