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is a great book for any one who would like to learn about Denmark, Reading it does not mean you plan to visit there, If you never go, you would have explored the lives of people, the Danes, who are very happy, Helen Russell, the author of The Year of Living When Helen and her aptly nicknamed hubby Lego Man relocate to small town Denmark for a year, a book unfolds her telling of a Londoner on an adventure.
By midpoint, as she unravels the mystery of living in a vastly different culture and with a difficult to pronounce I went to Copenhagen this fall and really enjoyed it.
So when I saw this I got as a gift for my traveling companion, Just thought Id glance through it before wrapping, Lost the rest of the evening and some of this afternoon,. Helen short first name captured the Thoroughly enjoyed reading this, Really entertaining to read and filled with so many interesting facts on the different facets of living Danishly, So many different topics expertly researched and tackled, Opened my eyes even to the importance of While the title would indicate there are twelve chapters in the book one per month, there are actually thirteen, along with a hefty prologue, a significant epilogue, and another section called "Top ten tips for living Danishly".
This is much than a quick romp This is a fun read for those with Danish or Scandinavian family.
Even if you don't have a Scandinavian background, it's still worth the read, “I am not important. If I take a break, no one dies, And this is A Good Thing, ” I wanted a light and fun, but deeply interesting read to bring on a summer trip, and this book turned out to be the perfect choice.
It offered a pretty entertaining look at Danish In the Forties and Fifties, some very effective satire was written by Americans from small towns who moved to big cities, or big city dwellers who assayed suburbia: MY SISTER EILEEN and PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES, for example.
In this century the same sense of When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long, dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries.
What is the secret to their success Are happy Danes born or made Helen decides there is only one way to find out: she

will give herself a year, trying to uncover the formula for Danish happiness.
From child care, education, food and interior design to SAD, taxes, sexism and an unfortunate predilection for burning witches, The Year of Living Danishly is a funny, poignant record of a journey that shows us where the Danes get it right, where they get it wrong, and how we might just benefit from living a little Danishly ourselves.
Helen Russell is a journalist and former editor of MarieClaire, co. uk. She now lives in rural Jutland and works as a Scandinavia correspondent for the Guardian as well as writing a column on Denmark for the Telegraph.
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