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I thought this was very funny in parts, and actually laughed aloud a few times. That being said, except for maybe the first and last couple chapters, it wasn’t about her philosophy or how to deal with mental illness. It was more a stream of consciousness glimpse of the author’s life and what’s in her head, which was entertaining but maybe not helpful? I dunno. I still enjoyed it and would recommend.
[b:Furiously Happy|23848559|Furiously Happy A Funny Book About Horrible Things|Jenny Lawson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1429101901s/23848559.jpg|43075476] on kirja, joka varmasti jakaa mielipiteitä. The Bloggess -blogin kirjoittajana tunnetun [a:Jenny Lawsonin|5272674|Jenny Lawson|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1325188029p2/5272674.jpg] kirjoitustyyliä joko vihaa tai rakastaa, joten ymmärrän täysin, miksi kaikki eivät pidä kirjasta, vaikka itse pidin siitä ihan hulluna. Joidenkin kirjojen huumori vain menee yli. Tämän kirjan huumorikin on välillä niin mustaa, että vaikka nauroin jatkuvasti, en silti juurikaan piristynyt kirjan lukemisesta.
Voisin kirjoittaa enemmänkin siitä, mitä ajattelen kirjasta, mutta monet sen käsittelemät aiheet koskettavat minua niin henkilökohtaisesti, että on ehkä parasta, että lopetan tähän. Sen kuitenkin sanon, että mielestäni kirja on helmi muistelmateokseksi ja että sen lukemista kannattaa ainakin kokeilla varsinkin, jos pitää muistelmista tai käsittämättömästä kohellushuumorista.
Voisin kirjoittaa enemmänkin siitä, mitä ajattelen kirjasta, mutta monet sen käsittelemät aiheet koskettavat minua niin henkilökohtaisesti, että on ehkä parasta, että lopetan tähän. Sen kuitenkin sanon, että mielestäni kirja on helmi muistelmateokseksi ja että sen lukemista kannattaa ainakin kokeilla varsinkin, jos pitää muistelmista tai käsittämättömästä kohellushuumorista.
Interesting, funny and insightful book about mental illness. I am absolutely stunned ... and slightly terrified ... by the multiple directions of Jenny Lawson's mind. I don't know if I would be frustrated or excited to be seated next to her on a long flight. Of course, maybe by then she'd have her service pony.
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I think I read too many reviews and was overhyped about this book because to be honest I liked it but I didn’t love it.
Let’s start by saying Jenny should totally be friends with Lorelai Gilmore, and I would definitely watch that spinoff.
I was expecting the book to be a sequence of events and it is more of a compilation of situation with no apparent timeline that holds them together. I. Hate. That. I don’t know if it’s my OCD but I need things to be organized even in books I need a proper timeline to like them.
Also she must be a doll but that excessive amount of what I consider lack of responsibility of ones life stresses me out. Maybe I’m jealous because she can go through life that happily and having such fun thoughts all the time, but me, I need to worry 24/7 or I feel the world stops spinning.
All in all I consider this was a fun light read until I started noticing the details fore mentioned, but if those things don’t stress you out or annoy you. This is a read for you.
Let’s start by saying Jenny should totally be friends with Lorelai Gilmore, and I would definitely watch that spinoff.
I was expecting the book to be a sequence of events and it is more of a compilation of situation with no apparent timeline that holds them together. I. Hate. That. I don’t know if it’s my OCD but I need things to be organized even in books I need a proper timeline to like them.
Also she must be a doll but that excessive amount of what I consider lack of responsibility of ones life stresses me out. Maybe I’m jealous because she can go through life that happily and having such fun thoughts all the time, but me, I need to worry 24/7 or I feel the world stops spinning.
All in all I consider this was a fun light read until I started noticing the details fore mentioned, but if those things don’t stress you out or annoy you. This is a read for you.
My only takeaway from this book is that I shouldn't worry about coming off a certain "way" with my personality, because there will always be people that love that way, as is evident by how many people love Jenny, including PAST ME (more on that in a sec). But there will also be people that don't love it at all. Confirming that everyone just needs to be authentically themselves all of the time.
This book was enjoyable for me for the first 25% or so. I was having fun with the style of humour and even laughed out loud a few times. Choosing to do this in audiobook format helped because Jenny could naturally talk in the exact tone and inflections that she intended through her words. But then after that it started to become painful to get through the book because it just ended up being more of the same and a lot of things felt repeated to me. The out loud laughing turned into eyerolls.
But I refused to DNF this book! And in the end, I'm glad that I didn't because there were a handful of really great moments where Jenny talked about mental health in a wonderful way that resonated with me and I think would resonate with most people.
Unfortunately, most of the book is not like that at all. This book is a lot like binge-reading someone's personal blog. Which makes sense after finding out after reading it that Jenny Lawson is behind The Bloggess, which came as a big surprise to me! I remember reading The Bloggess here and there regularly back in the early 2010s, when I read various blogs all the time. I just went back to some of her posts from that time and the writing style and humour is exactly the same as it is in this book.
This just proves to me that I have changed as a person! Jenny's style of humour and writing is no longer my cup of tea, but I am glad that she is a lot of people's cup of tea.
This book was enjoyable for me for the first 25% or so. I was having fun with the style of humour and even laughed out loud a few times. Choosing to do this in audiobook format helped because Jenny could naturally talk in the exact tone and inflections that she intended through her words. But then after that it started to become painful to get through the book because it just ended up being more of the same and a lot of things felt repeated to me. The out loud laughing turned into eyerolls.
But I refused to DNF this book! And in the end, I'm glad that I didn't because there were a handful of really great moments where Jenny talked about mental health in a wonderful way that resonated with me and I think would resonate with most people.
Unfortunately, most of the book is not like that at all. This book is a lot like binge-reading someone's personal blog. Which makes sense after finding out after reading it that Jenny Lawson is behind The Bloggess, which came as a big surprise to me! I remember reading The Bloggess here and there regularly back in the early 2010s, when I read various blogs all the time. I just went back to some of her posts from that time and the writing style and humour is exactly the same as it is in this book.
This just proves to me that I have changed as a person! Jenny's style of humour and writing is no longer my cup of tea, but I am glad that she is a lot of people's cup of tea.
3.5
Hilarious, insightful, and surprisingly piercing book but Jenny Lawson's tangents just don't work for me. She will go on for a VERY long time about something I'm just not interested in, but I can see how others might be.
Her experiences and honesty about her mental health issues were so well-written though. So many favourite passages and quotes!
Hilarious, insightful, and surprisingly piercing book but Jenny Lawson's tangents just don't work for me. She will go on for a VERY long time about something I'm just not interested in, but I can see how others might be.
Her experiences and honesty about her mental health issues were so well-written though. So many favourite passages and quotes!
That raccoon is my goddam role model. He is the worst and the best Patronus ever, and I want to be just like him when I grow up.
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Fue ESPECTACULAR. Loleí escuché porque me encantó la portada allá por el 2015, porque fan de los mapaches siempre. La verdad es que no sabía de qué trataba y me enteré cuando encontré el audiolibro. Este es la primer memoir que leo escucho y me gustó mucho. Jenny tiene una escritura muy fluida y divertida, y haberla escuchado hizo que la experiencia fuera genial y mucho más entretenida que si la hubiera leído. En fin, me encantó.
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