Published: 2012
Genre: Non-fiction
Rating: 3
Summary
Erin McHugh had spent the better part of her adult life doing community work; but in more recent years, the minutiae of life and working as a bookseller kept her busy and away from those higher impulses. Then one day she learned a distant relative was actually going to be canonized. Was this a sign? What followed next was McHugh’s sincere urge to recapture a sense of charity.
So she set out--on her birthda--to do one good deed every day for an entire year. Maybe she wouldn’t be saving orphans from burning buildings; but she wanted to take one small, daily detour and make someone else’s life just a little bit better. One Good Deed is the inspiring, smart, and frequently funny chronicle of that year, in which each page represents a day in McHugh’s journey to reclaim the better part of herself, inspiring readers to do the same.
Review
| I liked the concept of trying to be a bit better through performing good deeds every day. But sometimes I think the author needed to step back and search for a situation in need before determining what the good deed was. Occassionally she impossed her predetermined good deed on someone who had no need for or interest in it. In these instances, the deed appeared more self-serving than charitable. I also did not enjoy her soapboxing about gay rights. |
