This book was so much fun!

This book is, well, awesome! It's funny and, like the title says, full of simple things that are brilliant!

A fun, rainy day read to remind you of all the really great things in life.

Love this book - it's not really a story, but rather the folks who write the blog putting it all together to find truly cool things in life. I work out with a group of friends and we lovingly call ourselves "Team Awesome." This was a gift to the other 3 members of our group right before a half marathon.

Perfect bathroom read, or something to store in your car if you're waiting for a few moments. Really just makes you feel, well AWESOME and happy to read it!

LOVE this book! It made me laugh and reminded me to appreciate the little things that make life enjoyable. I used to keep a list of little things that make me happy (some general like Pasricha's list, plus specific things that had happened to me). I haven't done that in a few years, but this book inspired me to start again. The only thing I didn't like was that each section ends with "AWESOME!" and that got old pretty quickly. Otherwise, wonderful!

4.5 stars.

Sitting down and reading this over a couple of days made this an "awesomely" quick read. I laughed out loud a few times "aww'd" at others and took time to look at all the awesome things around me.

The only reason I docked this half a star is somethings dragged on for me, and I felt they could've been handled with one or two paragraphs, instead they were stretched over a few pages, which is never nice.

Overall, I would recommend this for someone. It's a great mood booster and draws your attention, even if for a second, to something that is sure to make you smile... at least a little!

Something fascinating happened while I was reading this book.

I started out just reading a few chapters in between the other books I was reading. It's hard to read a book like this straight through, cover to cover, so I was giving myself room, to keep from getting bored or having it feel monotonous.

Then I finished the book I was reading, and decided to try reading straight through, starting Friday morning. Sitting outside with my coffee, the dog running around and rolling in the sun. Being unemployed as long as I have been, sitting outside and reading and smoking and watching my animals has become an every day, multiple times a day thing.

And I looked up from my book, and saw my big galoof of a dog basking in the sunlight, and I just thought, "Man, it is so wonderful to see a dog enjoying the sunshine. They're just so happy."

Then I set the book down and went inside to get my tortoise's lunch, and put it down for her. As she trundled over and started devouring her lettuce and tomatoes, I sat for a second and grinned, watching how much she ate with gusto.

And the wind blew, and despite the super Louisiana humidity, it felt nice, and the breeze smelled good.

And everything...was awesome.

And a few hours after all of this happened, I got a phone call. I got the job I interviewed for last week. The job I wanted very much.

That is awesome.

This book gave me such a positive lift. Even the chapters I have absolutely no idea about (snow, bowling) were fun.

Certainly, some of the chapters could've done without the explanation. I mean, Popping bubble wrap? 'Nuff said. But then he added in there that bubble wrap was originally intended to be a textured wallpaper.

And salary is derived from Salarium, meaning money paid to soldiers to buy salt.

And Egyptians used to worship onions.

You know how I feel about completely useless trivia?

That's right. It's awesome.

I really really liked this book. It is awesome.

Like a hot dog.

My strategy with this book was to read the different awesome things before bed until I found one where I was like "yes! That IS awesome!" and then go to sleep. I would recommend this strategy to friends. Also, that's why it took me almost a month to read this. There's lots of awesome out there!