{"id":3511,"date":"2015-02-25T07:21:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2015-02-25T07:21:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T15:21:51","slug":"the-peanuts-guide-to-happiness-take-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/the-peanuts-guide-to-happiness-take-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peanuts Guide to Happiness, take one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Peanuts Guide to Happiness<\/em> by Charles M. Schulz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first thing I noticed about the UK-only book The Peanuts Guide to Happiness<\/b><\/a> is that they made the same strange cover design choice that I’ve seen on very few other occasions – they left the Peanuts characters off of the cover. You’d think if you were paying good money for a Peanuts licenses, you’d use that recognizable element right up front, but no; some designer felt that his imagery was more important than Schulz’s.<\/p>\n

The second thing I noticed is that their disrespect for Schulz went even further – they had misspelled his name. And not in one of the usual ways, dropping the C or adding a\u00a0T. No, they had misspelled it “Atul Gawande”.<\/p>\n

It was about this time that it awned on me that my UK book provider had sent me the wrong book, something that flipping through the pages and seeing a shocking lack of Snoopy confirmed for me. I contacted the bookstore, letting them know of the error, and they let me know that they would send the correct book, and that the erroneous one was mine to keep.<\/p>\n

When Dr. Mrs. AAUGH Blogger came home today, I said in mock excitement “I got a book in the mail today!” (The actual occurrence of my getting a book in the mail is quite frequent.) “Was it a\u00a0Peanuts<\/em> book?” she asked (for it usually is, and almost always if I’m feigning excitement over getting a book in the mail.) “NO!” shouted I, violating the normal rhythm. “It was supposed to be, but instead, they sent me something called\u00a0The Checklist Manifesto<\/em>, by someone called ‘Atul Gawande’.”<\/p>\n

“Oh?” she said, with a degree of genuine surprise. “I’ve been meaning to read that!”<\/p>\n

So it’s a win all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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