I wasn’t sure if I wanted to read this book. Nonfiction isn’t really my thing (unless it’s nonfiction about religious cults, but that’s a long story which doesn’t belong here.) Anyway, one day I was walking through Target after a dental appointment. My teeth were throbbing, and I had a massive heada...
If there were a book that I would recommend for mental illness, it would definitely be this one. Usually, many people are concerned with the fact that mental illness isn’t talked about enough, and how we don’t know a lot about it. And I feel that it’s true.So even if you don’t know anything about me...
There was a lot of great stuff in this book. Plenty of insightful discussions about mental illness, which is something that I've struggled with most of my life - not to the degree of the author but I could relate to some aspects of what she had to say. Most of the book is Lawson telling stories and ...
Jenny Lawson might be funny in person, but I don't really find this kind of humor written out in a book to be funny. It just comes off like it's trying way too hard. She also seems weirdly judgemental. And she'll be like "ohhhh my god I am SOOOO wacky you guys!!" and give an example, only the exampl...
I dreaded the day I had to take these CD’s back to the library. She had become one of my best friends for the past few weeks as I listened to her stories, sometimes up to three times before moving on to the next CD. Lawson had me in stitches: this girl was not shy about anything, if it happened to...
Initial reaction: My first read from Jenny Lawson and I loved it - I laughed and at the same time found Lawson's expansions on mental illness and her experiences to be very insightful. The story early on where she would lean Rory the Raccoon over her husband's shoulder to test whether people would m...
What strikes you about Jenny Lawson’s “Furiously Happy” first and foremost is the smiling raccoon adorning the cover of the book that just makes you want to pick it up and find out why it’s one there. However before Lawson explains about the smiling raccoon, she has succeeded in sucking you into he...
I just finished reading Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson, the book named for a new mantra about how to approach life in the face of depression, also about two ecstatic-looking taxidermied raccoons. (For more information about the existence of TWO such raccoons, read the book.)(Is the plural of raccoo...
I enjoyed Lawson’s first book, Let’s Pretend this Never Happened, and occasional visits to her blog have provided some good laughs. This one I didn’t enjoy as much. It is less a memoir than an essay collection, composed of disconnected pieces, most of which seem to be adapted or even taken directly ...
Back in October 2012, when I finally decided to see what all these Cannonballers were on about when they kept gushing about a strange-looking book with a taxidermied mouse on the cover, and gave in and read Let's Pretend This Never Happened, I didn't actually know who the Bloggess was. What a sad an...
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