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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
How this book ended up on my TBR: Someone in one of my book clubs recommended Jenny Lawson's writing. Now that I'm poking around GR, I'm seeing that I actually listened to her first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, in 2012 and have no recollection of it. But I really liked it! I may want to listen to it again.
This was generally a delight to listen to. Not everyone will like Lawson's voice and writing style (especially if they speed up the audio speed), but I know I certainly did. Lawson's funnier chapters seem at times so over-the-top and utterly ridiculous, but what really sold this book for me are the chapters that are more serious, and it's in those chapters that she's talking about physical and mental health and the challenges she's experienced. They are genuine and heartfelt and honestly quite motivating. I think I'd like to buy her audiobooks and listen to them every few years; I doubt they will get old.
Lawson performs her own narration of her books and she is awesome. I think at some point she describes her voice as a scratchy Minnie Mouse, and that feels accurate. Still love it.
This was generally a delight to listen to. Not everyone will like Lawson's voice and writing style (especially if they speed up the audio speed), but I know I certainly did. Lawson's funnier chapters seem at times so over-the-top and utterly ridiculous, but what really sold this book for me are the chapters that are more serious, and it's in those chapters that she's talking about physical and mental health and the challenges she's experienced. They are genuine and heartfelt and honestly quite motivating. I think I'd like to buy her audiobooks and listen to them every few years; I doubt they will get old.
Lawson performs her own narration of her books and she is awesome. I think at some point she describes her voice as a scratchy Minnie Mouse, and that feels accurate. Still love it.
Jenny Lawson is an amazing person. I adore her, I adore this book and I appreciate her honesty, humor and bravery. Read this immediately.
3 ½ stars, probably because I went directly from her amazingly hilarious first book to this one, which, while also very, very funny in parts, spends more time dealing with her grown up mental health issues than funny stories from the past. That's an important book to be written, and it was written fairly well, but it wasn't what I was looking for and seemed slightly misleading.
The author is simultaneously trying to be the quirkiest and funniest girl in class while failing tremendously at the funny part. If I’m 1/3 of the way through the book and not enjoying it, I just have to put it down. And this book way one of these. The overly forced quirkiness and humor was far to annoying. There’s some genuinely funny things and good advice here in there. But it’s clouded by millennial humor I just couldn’t take it.
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Hilarious. Recommend.
My thoughts on this memoir are a bit of a rollercoaster. It's got some genuinely hilarious anecdotes that had me laughing out loud, but there were moments when it felt like it was trying too hard to be funny or even shock the reader.
I guess the author was aiming to connect with a broad audience, and maybe I just didn't fully connect with their style, but it did affect my overall rating. However, I must admit that, on the whole, it was an engaging read. I just wish the humor and quality were more consistent throughout.
I guess the author was aiming to connect with a broad audience, and maybe I just didn't fully connect with their style, but it did affect my overall rating. However, I must admit that, on the whole, it was an engaging read. I just wish the humor and quality were more consistent throughout.
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
The book is quite insightful into common and not so common mental disorders, as well as frequently being laugh-out-loud funny.
reflective
slow-paced
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced