| Name | This is Happiness |
| Language | |
| Author | Niall Williams |
| Genre | Novel |
| Kind | |
| Reason | |
| Rating | excellent |
| Status | finished |
| Status Date | 20 December 2025 |
| Comment | A grandfather looks back on a stay with his grandparents in the West of Ireland when he was seventeen years old. |
| Quote | "We spend most of our lives guarding against washes of feeling. I'm guarding no more." p. 150. "Once standing, any decent story has a life of its own and can run whichever way it wants." p. 163 "realizing you can turn a corner and find your life waiting there for you, and that if you walked past it, it would come after you, tapping you on the shoulder." p. 314 |