ONE GOOD DEED: 365 DAYS OF TRYING TO BE JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER

Book ID/图书代码： 13010511B46471

English Summary/英文概要： 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, and so she set out on her birthday 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.

In July 2010, Erin McHugh started a journey, hoping to change her own life (and the lives of others) by ‘doing good’ for someone every day for an entire year, and recording each experience. The entries are short, sometimes funny or surprising, but never cloying; they are followed by one-line, inspirational take-aways. McHugh also chronicled her good deeds online, blogging weekly at her website, onegooddeedbook.com

If you’ve ever lost a job and tried to treasure the newfound free time, recovered from something and promised yourself you’d live every day anew, gotten yourself out of trouble and vowed you’d cherish each dawn – and then found that life simply doesn’t work that way, ONE GOOD DEED is for you. Think of it as a combination of Gretchin Rubin’s bestselling THE HAPPINESS PROJECT and the daily reportage of JULIE AND JULIA. Although this book is not illustrated, like the surprisingly heartfelt pronouncements found in the POST SECRET series, ONE GOOD DEED effectively uses snippets of narrative to tell a big story. And by bringing you into another person’s world, it’s possible to affect your own. This book is a quest in which one year will help shine light on a simple question: Where Is The Goodness?

A number of bestselling nonfiction authors have agreed to contribute blurbs for the book, including Meg Wolitzer, Julie Klam, Dani Shapiro and Susan Orlean.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 持之以恆，滴水穿石。小小善舉，也會凝聚成天空中一道美麗的彩虹……

勿以善小而不為，偉大的事業皆從小事積累而來。
持之以恆，滴水穿石。小小善舉，也會凝聚成天空中一道美麗的彩虹……
2010年7月，Erin McHugh開始了一場名為「一件善舉」(One Good Deed)的旅程，期望在未來的一年內透過每天行一件善舉來改變自己（也包括他人）的生活。作者在書中記錄簡單明瞭，有時候幽默有趣，有時候又出其不意，但是從來不會令讀者倒胃口。而且這些故事後面通常會加上一句鼓舞人心的感言。

8月17日
我說：「我喜歡你的遮陽帽。」
他高興回說：「為什麼。謝謝！」
這是我第一次和他說話，儘管我已經見過他幾百次，他過去總是戴著一頂60年代BOB DLYAN戴的復古牛仔皮帽，現在則換成這頂草編的軟呢帽。
我不確定他是不是遊民，但今天我看他手上拿著杯子。我躡手躡腳靠近他，趁他不注意，瞄了他的杯子，發現裡有幾個硬幣。（我當然不想冒犯他如果他手上只是杯咖啡。）
老實說，我從來不認為他是個窮人，因為他看起來如此快樂。他在我心目中就像Paul Robeson的歌曲Old Man River，如果Paul Robeson和他在美國偶像歌唱節目中一決高下，我想Paul Robeson肯定會嚇出一身汗。
因為他的聲音會讓你佩服到五體投地，一種深刻、充滿情感、柔美的歌喉。我之所以會這樣說，因為他總是在唱歌，他的聲音像合唱團中的中高音，他常邊走邊唱，或是坐在公車站旁的牛奶箱上唱歌。當我還在街角的書店工作時，他也常在那唱歌，當時聽到他的聲音感覺就身處教堂裡一樣。
「我很懷念你在之前店裡唱歌的時光，真的。」「你知道嗎我們現在搬到這條街下去不遠的地方，但我從來沒看到你在那出現過。」
他語帶感傷的說：「我之前常到那用洗手間。」「但是現在那裡太多階梯了。」
「不管怎樣，無論在哪裡很高興能再聽到你的歌聲。」我不經意的投了一個硬幣在他的杯子了。
「我也很高興見到妳。祝福妳！」
然後，在那天剩下的時間裡，一個想法不斷的湧進我的腦中：為什麼我們會覺得對我們最不重要的人帶給我們的祝福最多？
算一算你收到的祝福，再仔細算算，因為我敢肯定你一定少算了三個！
作者同時也在網路建立一個專屬網站：onegooddeedbook.com，每週更新其行善的行程記錄。《小小善舉》活動經過了一年的運作，總是不斷的試圖回答了一個簡單的問題：善良在哪裡？(XMM & Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：Part-psychiatrist, part police detective, and part cocaine trafficker Joe Toricelli aka Joe Torento is a new breed of hero. And Dave Rosi is a new breed of detective writer. Look out Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard! --Steve, Amazon reviews

The lurid underbelly of the dark world of a twisted Park Avenue psychoanalyst is starkly revealed in this gripping novel of steaming sex, international intrigue, horrific mayhem, and cold-blooded murder. One can only imagine the mind of the author...perhaps the next Dash Hammett...with more than just a bit of Rod Serling or Stephen King. In One Good Deed, the venerable mystery-thriller becomes a device that tells more than a story; it is a manifesto for a new morality. One may predict that more than one master’s thesis will be written comparing this novel to Milton. Rosi has redefined the genre! --Sammy Peeps, London, Amazon reviews

About the Author/作者介绍： Erin McHugh休曾經是一位出版社經理，並發表過20多本作品，主題涉及日常瑣事，同性戀、歷史、兒童以及汽車旅行等。目前作者在紐約和南達特茅斯兩地定居。
Erin McHugh is a former publishing executive and author of more than twenty books of trivia, history, children’s stories, and more. She splits her time between New York City and South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

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