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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
by Jenny Lawson
This book was quite a ride.
When Lawson is funny, she is REALLY funny. There were multiple stories in here that made me laugh aloud, and some that I even saved to read to my boyfriend later on. I also appreciated her brutal honesty about all the not-so-funny parts of her life: her crippling social anxiety, her struggles with infertility, her imperfect marriage, and even her musings at the end about how she never knew if she’d really be able to put her child’s life ahead of her own. I found a lot of comfort in here.
Buttttt, as an anxious person myself, I found Lawson’s chaotic writing to be particularly anxiety-inducing at certain points throughout, prompting me to have to set it aside for a few days at a time. She repeatedly makes reference to an editor who I’m certain doesn’t exist. The timeline is all over the place, the ramblings often have no point, and there’s just no structure whatsoever. I suspect that these are some of the qualities that draw people to this book, though.
Overall, not a good memoir. But the hilarious stories make it worth the read, and Lawson is undeniably lovable.
When Lawson is funny, she is REALLY funny. There were multiple stories in here that made me laugh aloud, and some that I even saved to read to my boyfriend later on. I also appreciated her brutal honesty about all the not-so-funny parts of her life: her crippling social anxiety, her struggles with infertility, her imperfect marriage, and even her musings at the end about how she never knew if she’d really be able to put her child’s life ahead of her own. I found a lot of comfort in here.
Buttttt, as an anxious person myself, I found Lawson’s chaotic writing to be particularly anxiety-inducing at certain points throughout, prompting me to have to set it aside for a few days at a time. She repeatedly makes reference to an editor who I’m certain doesn’t exist. The timeline is all over the place, the ramblings often have no point, and there’s just no structure whatsoever. I suspect that these are some of the qualities that draw people to this book, though.
Overall, not a good memoir. But the hilarious stories make it worth the read, and Lawson is undeniably lovable.