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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
Jenny Lawson's memoir Furiously Happy is truly funny. Her book sheds light on mental health as well as depression. Although the book is mostly about mental health she also describes issues with her marriage and children. While reading this book, I was constantly bursting out with laughter over some of the things she went through. I recommend this to people or family with loved ones struggling with mental health issues as well as people who just want a book that will give them a laugh.
5 of 5 stars!!!!!!
5 of 5 stars!!!!!!
self deprecating-ish humor while talking about depression and anxiety
As much as I read from friends an my followed folks I wasn't prepared for this book. I should have been in retrospect. I mean look at the cover....look at the title. I should have braced myself. I didn't. I laughed, I was sad, I was furiously happy and maybe just maybe found an inner love of crazy taxidermy. Thank you Jenny, I am both humbled, educated and maybe even a bit more understanding of my own issues thanks to this book.
Hm. So I got to page 36 and it dawned on me that this is a 300 page book. And I thought, huh. There’s really 264 more pages of this shit, isn’t there?
Jenny Lawson isn’t relatable. She seems like an exhausting leech of a person and it comes across with every trite, try-hard run-on sentence.
You know that absolute Chandler type of person who you can never have a real heart-to-heart with because they just refuse to BE SERIOUS for one fucking second? That’s who I felt like I was dealing with when reading this. And really, if I wanted to be frustrated and pissed off by that type of person, I wouldn’t read about it in a book. I’d just call my dad.
This book isn’t a comedy. It’s more of a cruel joke. But maybe also a perfect metaphor for our day and age. Aren’t we all just mentally ill memoirists?
Jenny Lawson isn’t relatable. She seems like an exhausting leech of a person and it comes across with every trite, try-hard run-on sentence.
You know that absolute Chandler type of person who you can never have a real heart-to-heart with because they just refuse to BE SERIOUS for one fucking second? That’s who I felt like I was dealing with when reading this. And really, if I wanted to be frustrated and pissed off by that type of person, I wouldn’t read about it in a book. I’d just call my dad.
This book isn’t a comedy. It’s more of a cruel joke. But maybe also a perfect metaphor for our day and age. Aren’t we all just mentally ill memoirists?
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
This was a great mix of hilarious and heartfelt. I appreciated learning more about mental illness, but I also laughed out loud a lot throughout. Great to hear the author read the book herself, as well.
Admiro a Jenny por ter esta capacidade de tornar os momentos horríveis da vida em momentos repletos de gargalhadas e sarcasmo!
No entanto, ao longo que a leitura fluía eu não consegui acompanhar com a mesma fluidez. Tornou-se enfadonho, repetitivo e extremamente forçado na criação de histórias e ultra exageradas com picos de sarcasmo desnecessários.
Recomendo a quem gosta de livros deste género, com o relato na primeira pessoa, como se tratasse de um diário. E para quem queria saber mais sobre a temática da depressão ou esteja a passar por momentos difíceis!
No entanto, ao longo que a leitura fluía eu não consegui acompanhar com a mesma fluidez. Tornou-se enfadonho, repetitivo e extremamente forçado na criação de histórias e ultra exageradas com picos de sarcasmo desnecessários.
Recomendo a quem gosta de livros deste género, com o relato na primeira pessoa, como se tratasse de um diário. E para quem queria saber mais sobre a temática da depressão ou esteja a passar por momentos difíceis!
lighthearted
fast-paced
Oof, I did not vibe with this book. I probably would have liked it more reading it when it first came out and I was younger, but it felt so dated and millennial, or straight up just someone's Tumblr. (I kid you not the line 'Bacon is my spirit animal' features to give you an idea of the vibe)
I also just feel a little cheated by the blurb this book is 2% Depression and Anxiety and 98% Tangents about taxidermy or arguments she's had with her husband.
Was good in the few places it dug deep but the rest was a waste of time.
I also just feel a little cheated by the blurb this book is 2% Depression and Anxiety and 98% Tangents about taxidermy or arguments she's had with her husband.
Was good in the few places it dug deep but the rest was a waste of time.
Is this book funny? Yes. But it never really went anywhere. If you like listening to funny people rant. This is the book for you. I could not make it past the third chapter. But I would absolutely have dinner with the author. Granted she would never accept after reading this.