The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World by Kim DinanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I love to travel so I thought this book would be a perfect fit, and while I loved the ideas in it, I found the story frustrating at times. The author shares her personal experience of her husband and her quitting their jobs, selling their house and beginning an adventure to travel around the world. Her good friends decide to give them an envelope of cash to give away while they are on their journey. All of this sounds wonderful, but the majority of the book the author chooses to describe her own internal struggles with finding meaning and purpose and her marital struggles, rather than focus on all of the incredible travel experiences. Overall I felt disappointed in this book. I wanted the story to be much more than it was. I wanted the author to quit telling us about all of her epiphanies about her search for meaning and to actually share the amazing cultures and people that she was meeting on her travels.
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