Sally Monaghan's Reviews > The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

I love Paula Poundstone. Love her!!!! This book is not what I expected. It was not just a laugh out loud exploration of goofy experiments. It mixes her search for moments of happiness (measured in heps and balous after two of her cats) with a sort of memoir about raising her children and her own struggles. I would say at least 85% of it was laugh out loud (camping with her daughter, meditation with the other daughter), but some of it was quite serious, and at times sad. She really just puts it all out there. It says a lot about her that the experiment that gave her the most happiness was volunteering in a nursing home, despite her initial discomfort around older people. Anyway, loved the book and anyone who loves her humor should read it.