The Power of Fun by Catherine Price

What is fun and why is it important?  How can we make more fun in our lives?  These are the questions Ms Price tries to answer in this fairly new self-help.  She talks about the difference between real fun and fake fun, and dwells (and dwells, and dwells) on how our modern addition to our electronic devices is antithetical to experiencing more fun.  She give several exercises to enable the reader to discover their "fun magnets" and maximize their chances of having more real fun.  

It is totally ironic that I didn't find reading this very fun.  I actually started the book, read a different book, tried again, read a different book again, and then finally finished this book.  I liked her suggestions for analyzing what each person considers to be fun, and I have even tried some of her suggestions for adding more fun into my life. On the other hand, I really got tired on her hammering on how bad and addictive cell phones are and how evil Facebook is.  I basically agree with her assertions, but the problem is that she makes them over and over and over.  If I wanted a rant about cell phones I would have read her other book, How to Break up with your Phone. In full disclosure, I got to the point that when I saw that she was jumping on the "cell phones are evil" bandwagon again, I just skipped to the end of the chapter.  That was the only way I could get through.  I skipped about 1 1/2 hours of the recorded book and I don't think I missed any of her main points. (2021, 352 p)