Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

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

5 reviews

asienerbrown's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Animal death and Body shaming

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

spellygirl's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

I did like decent chunks of this book, though I didn't find it nearly as funny as some others. As someone with both anxiety and depression I recognized a lot of the topics at hand. 

Read this a few years ago as an ebook, and gave it 2⭐. The audiobook is definitely better. Would have liked it better without all the taxidermied/dead animals.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

Minor: Blood

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