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This book is fabulous and to anyone who didn't like it, boo! jk:)
Heartfelt, funny and random. Loved it. Favorite line "not everyone can be a good ninja"
I don't read Jenny Lawson's blog. I have had her first book on my to-read list for years. I was leaving the library after finishing a paper (three cheers for procrastinating!) and saw Furiously Happy on the "MOST WANTED" shelf and grabbed it. I devoured this book. Not literally, obviously. That would result in surgery because it was a hardback version and is a pretty thick stack of paper.
I thought it was charming and funny and honest and just what I needed to read.
I was JUST telling a coworker the other day about my irrational (but is it really irrational?) fear of seeing a garbage bag on the side of the road and seeing that there is a body (or body parts) in it as I drive passed. And then I have stop and double check that I actually saw a body or body parts because what if my mind is playing a really cruel joke on me because I sometimes binge watch Law & Order: SVU? And then I have to call the cops and make a statement and then and then and then. My coworker looked at me like I was crazy. Maybe I am a little crazy. BUT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT IF IT HAPPENED?!
So then I was thinking "Am I actually fucked up and crazy for having this (irrational) fear?" And then I finished procrastinating and started writing a paper and then I checked out this book and SURE ENOUGH, Jenny Lawson also has that (irrational) fear and wrote about it. Which made me feel less crazy. Because of she has this (irrational) fear, who else does? Maybe everyone else and just not my fucking coworker. Maybe my judgmental coworker is the crazy one for not being afraid of finding a bag of body parts on the side of the road...
I thought it was charming and funny and honest and just what I needed to read.
I was JUST telling a coworker the other day about my irrational (but is it really irrational?) fear of seeing a garbage bag on the side of the road and seeing that there is a body (or body parts) in it as I drive passed. And then I have stop and double check that I actually saw a body or body parts because what if my mind is playing a really cruel joke on me because I sometimes binge watch Law & Order: SVU? And then I have to call the cops and make a statement and then and then and then. My coworker looked at me like I was crazy. Maybe I am a little crazy. BUT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT IF IT HAPPENED?!
So then I was thinking "Am I actually fucked up and crazy for having this (irrational) fear?" And then I finished procrastinating and started writing a paper and then I checked out this book and SURE ENOUGH, Jenny Lawson also has that (irrational) fear and wrote about it. Which made me feel less crazy. Because of she has this (irrational) fear, who else does? Maybe everyone else and just not my fucking coworker. Maybe my judgmental coworker is the crazy one for not being afraid of finding a bag of body parts on the side of the road...
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Jenny Lawson could either be my BFF or we’d be too caught up in our own issues to notice each other. Either way, I appreciate her self-deprecating humor. I picked this up after a heavy nonfiction read, and it was exactly the lighthearted break I needed.
That said, I didn’t love Furiously Happy as much as Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, but it was still worth the listen. And you have to listen—Lawson narrates her own audiobooks, and her delivery makes the sarcasm land even better.
Lawson put my own feelings into words. As someone with RA struggling with the emotions of being a burden & feeling worthwhile, it means the world to know it’s not just me. Hilariously wonderful, painfully poignant, and always clever.
You wouldn't think a book about depression and anxiety would be funny. If you think that, you've obviously never read anything by Jenny Lawson. She has such a twisted view on the world, and honestly, half the time she says something outrageous I think "Holy crap!! Someone gets me!" The chapter on insomnia is spot on. And that raccoon on the cover? Yeah, that's a real taxidermed raccoon, and it's HILARIOUS.
Another entertaining read by Jenny Lawson. I enjoyed her 2nd book of essays, but I have to say, if I'm rating it by how many I wanted to read out loud to my family, this one only had 1 like that. It was one of the first ones, so I spent the rest of the book waiting for another seriously funny anecdote. I still enjoyed the rest of the book, but I wasn't doubled over with uncontrollable laughter like I was with the 1st book. She is unflinchingly honest about her mental health issues and I did appreciate her candor regarding those topics.
Manages to be hilariously funny while also sharing serious information about mental illness.