Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Courage to Be Happy
Ichiro Kishimi · 2019
🎙 Narrated by Graeme Malcolm, Noah Galvin, and January LaVoy (Simon & Schuster Audio)
72/100
👍 Worth It
This sequel keeps the same Socratic back-and-forth that made the first book click, and here it gets tested against real classroom and parenting frustration, which makes the ideas feel earned rather than preachy. It's not groundbreaking psychology and leans on you having read the original, but the practical takeaways on courage and self-acceptance hold up. The three-narrator dialogue format should make the listen easy to follow, though I couldn't confirm the actual pacing from a professional audio review.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: unknown Multi-narrator dialogue format (Malcolm, Galvin, LaVoy) matches the book's structure, but no dedicated professional review of the performance was located.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing72
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit85
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict72
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