Musings on self-help books

One of the writers in my creative writing group published a book a couple of years ago on how to be happy, and I have found some of her tips quite useful. I’m not particularly into self-help books, although a quick glance around my bookshelves revealed a few more books in this genre than I’d realised – including titles like “When You Live With A Messie” (bought when I was a student sharing a house with someone who was very untidy) and “How To Make Anyone Like You” (still looking pristine which perhaps accounts for why I’m still not a people-magnet).