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I should confess that this was the first book ever that made me feel something unusual towards the author. This time after finishing the last page I felt incredibly…grateful. The most unexpected feeling after putting down your read. The truth is I almost never take a book from a shelf just because I like the cover. This time the light-hearted picture of a paper plane made me open a copy; I immediately changed my mind about what I thought of the content a second before.

Measuring happiness, grasping the true meaning of it is definitely a tricky business. For example, we can’t even be sure that the word happiness means the same feeling, the same state of mind, in various cultures. We may think that there’s got to be a universal recipe for feeling good, but as it turns out every country has a slightly different approach toward defining bliss. I am very grateful for “the grump” who consulted the world’s happiness experts and then took the trouble to search for the happiest place, spinning out a whole new story of finding yourself. The discoveries along the way turned out to be quite unexpected, but invariably moving, funny, bizarre: they constantly made you reconsider your personal attitude toward happiness. This is a truly meaningful book.

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Nastia was born in Russia, and probably that's the reason why she is so inexplicably attracted to the coldest parts of the world, such as Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Alaska and Canada. The more it snows out there - the better. Although would she be even thinking about all that cold if she hadn't first enjoyed Turkey, Bulgaria and Ukraine?

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