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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
funny
reflective
medium-paced
medium-paced
emotional
funny
medium-paced
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
I don't think I laughed out loud quite as much as when I read her first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, but I still really enjoyed this one, read by the author on audio. She delves into more about her mental illness in this book, and I found it helpful to learn more about that from her perspective. Most of the book, though, is all the things I liked about the first one — bizarre adventures, embarrassing situations, taxidermy, and hilarious conversations with her very patient husband. My one real complaint is that, despite her own multitude of diagnoses, she was very negative toward people who experience psychoses and implied (wrongly) that they were inherently violent. That was just in one chapter, but it stuck out to me.
If you haven't read Lawson's first book yet, I suggest starting with that. If you like it, then definitely give this one a read.
If you haven't read Lawson's first book yet, I suggest starting with that. If you like it, then definitely give this one a read.
Admittedly it's not for me. It was a bit all over the place, gave off early 2000s "RaWr is how I say I l0ve u in din0saurrr" vibes which became slowly insufferable.
I do this chaotic thing where I will get both the physical version and the audio book, and the audio book also wasn't easy to have on in the background by any stretch. Think the most annoying person you know getting their own podcast and you ask them what it's about and even they can't tell you, it's just their own ranting and musings. No plot, just stream of consciousness.
It didn't have enough of a hook in the first half to get me to want to keep reading. I put it down a few different times only to pick it up again and within 15 minutes realize why I put it down in the first place.
I do this chaotic thing where I will get both the physical version and the audio book, and the audio book also wasn't easy to have on in the background by any stretch. Think the most annoying person you know getting their own podcast and you ask them what it's about and even they can't tell you, it's just their own ranting and musings. No plot, just stream of consciousness.
It didn't have enough of a hook in the first half to get me to want to keep reading. I put it down a few different times only to pick it up again and within 15 minutes realize why I put it down in the first place.
Of all the books I have read, this is definitely one of them.
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Suicide
Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts
I wanted this to be uplifting, to show triumph over difficulty. Mostly I just didn't want to be around the person I was reading about.