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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

9 reviews

jenniferbbookdragon's review against another edition

funny medium-paced

3.75

Lawson is funny and brutally honest about living with mental illness and autoimmune disease. Her stream of consciousness style is best appreciated by listening to the audio book, which she narrates herself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Chronic illness, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcohol

kiwichill's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

The audiobook adds to the experience of reading this book as Jenny narrates it herself.  As someone who also suffers anxiety and depression,  and chronic health issues,  I found her book very relatable.   I laughed till I cried several times 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Classism, Excrement, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Stalking, Colonisation, Alcohol, Cannibalism, and Addiction

jordan_noel's review against another edition

dark funny reflective fast-paced

4.5

Furiously Happy is open and honest, hilarious and relatable. It’s about acknowledging when you can do nothing but simply exist and furiously celebrating when you can do more. I loved her shameless explanations of how she finds ways to make her life better and her use of sarcasm and confidence to fight off social pressures. Overall, I just had a very fun, very emotional time with this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Cursing and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Body shaming, Self harm, and Animal death

kristyderp's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

Listened to this on Libby. I won't rate it because it's a memoir.
It's similar to her more recent book, Broken. Silly chapters are mixed in with more serious chapters about mental illness and learning to survive and cope with it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.0

Jenny Lawson's writing has very similar energy to Mindy Kaling's, in the way that they're kooky and kind of unconcerned with social issues. There was a time that this would have been more appealing to me. I also don't love the "I'm too kooky for my husband and I just make him pinch the bridge of his nose all the time waah-waah." Maybe it's not just my thing anymore to find fun in constantly miscommunicating with your partner. Also does she drink kind of heavily?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Self harm, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Suicide attempt, Blood, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Stalking

qrschulte's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

If you’ve ever wondered what a friend or loved one might be experiencing when they go through bouts of depression and/or anxiety, look no further than this book. Lawson describes what it feels like to live with both of these conditions in such a funny and relatable way. The audiobook is perfection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Self harm, Animal death, Cursing, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, and Eating disorder

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

This book moves from humor to silliness to thoughtful discussions of the pains of mental illness with ease.  I laughed out loud at some of her descriptions but also had tears when she shared her thoughts on mental illness.  This is an excellent book for someone struggling with depression and anxiety and for anyone that cares for someone with a mental illness.  Be sure to check out the content warnings if you aren't comfortable with some types of adult humor.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Cursing, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

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prakriti_archit's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

This "book"  is written as a stream-of-consciousness that is meant to be on twitter, not printed on pages. There is no narrative, no lessons, no theme. It's painfully "quirky" and I don't understand where the 5 star reviews are coming from. I was hoping to find comfort and solace from a fellow human who also knows what mental illness is like, but instead I got a headache from Jenny Lawson's writing style (which is best compared to an elementary school girl's diary. Sorry if I insulted any elementary school girls.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, and Medical content

bookishprincess's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Suicide, and Mental illness