A review by candilaria
Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

4.0

My library just recently acquired this book, and when it came down on the display I couldn't help but pick it up. I thought it would quickly be placed in my "Ever-growing List of Must Reads," but to my surprise, it was unexpectedly catapulted to the top of my reading list and was complete in short order. I have no idea what was so captivating about this book other than my desire to get to how Jane Lynch captured her role as Sue Sylvester in Glee, one of my favorite shows that I rarely get to watch. And my initial impression pretty much stuck with me throughout the entire book. Though Lynch has led an interesting life (it never even occurred to me that my library purchased the book because it was in celebration of LGBT Month), the book as written didn't describe any cataclysmic spiral--what we've come to expect from these memoirs--a fact of which Lynch is keenly aware of, even as she relates her experiences in AA. The great testimony to Lynch's book, her character, and her life is that one should not give up on one's dreams and more importantly, that sometimes our dreams find us.