Murder by Death

I'm calling it quits on this one - I've been seeing-not-seeing it on my piles for months now with not even a semi-serious impulse to pick it back up.

It's not a bad book, really.  But whereas similar books like The Little Book of Hygge gave at least a glancing nod toward legitimate, statistical studies and analysis, offering read world case studies and intriguing anecdotal stories of the strategies people take to achieve a better quality of life, The Atlas of Happiness is pretty much just a chapter by chapter brag fest about why each country thinks its so great at personal happiness.  It's entirely anecdotal and appears to be sourced from, at least in part, the author's online solicitations for responses.  This is not a criticism in any sense, except that it wasn't what I was looking for when I picked this book up.  I was hoping for something from a slightly more anthropological view and ended up with something more akin to a rah-rah ode to each country, very attractively packaged.

Because this is a case of unmet expectations of an impulse purchase, I'm not rating it.