Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.
In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives.
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An absolute must-read for anyone who's ever had any sort of struggle with mental illness and just needs a good laugh. This book makes me feel like I'm not alone and that I can have humor about something so serious. Thank you Jenny Lawson for writing such an intelligently witty and comical book. Definitely a good book I'll be keeping on my bookshelf for easy access whenever I need a good laugh!
This book was hilarious! If you're easily offended, don't like cursing ( she says the "F" word a lot!) or have absolutely no sense of humor, this book is not for you. I enjoyed the absolutely open and honest insight into her life and the struggles she sought to overcome. She touches on a ton of subjects that may be too sensitive for some readers, such as her struggles with social anxiety, anorexia, depression, and miscarriages.
She was married to her husband Victor at a young age and at first, it seemed it wouldn't last but enjoyed her love story of their marriage and how Victor became her foothold, her safety, her calm in the storm (even if she did try to kill him by locking him out of the car to battle with a rattlesnake LOL).
Her ramblings while telling her stories is what makes everything so enjoyable and hilariously funny, and she does include picture evidence for some points of reference.
This book will help you learn and discover that you are not alone in your struggles, and to laugh at your own embarrassing life events, handle you're life's misgivings with humor, and love yourself.
âI can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.â "You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.â Jenny Lawson
She was married to her husband Victor at a young age and at first, it seemed it wouldn't last but enjoyed her love story of their marriage and how Victor became her foothold, her safety, her calm in the storm (even if she did try to kill him by locking him out of the car to battle with a rattlesnake LOL).
Her ramblings while telling her stories is what makes everything so enjoyable and hilariously funny, and she does include picture evidence for some points of reference.
This book will help you learn and discover that you are not alone in your struggles, and to laugh at your own embarrassing life events, handle you're life's misgivings with humor, and love yourself.
âI can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.â "You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.â Jenny Lawson
Okay. It started out kind of slow for me because it was really silly. And then I bit the hand that feeds me when I told that to the person who was kind enough to give me the book (Sorry, Khrissy). But I kept at it, and I have been laughing out loud ever since. Jenny Lawson is a combination of Jeanette Walls (Glass Houses) and David Sedaris -- crazy upbringing and a knack for writing about it in the most hilarious way. Her experiences working in an HR department are priceless; so is her impulse buy, Beyonce, the decorative chicken, on a shopping trip with a friend. Fun book!
Do you think you had a f*cked up childhood??? Oh, you've got nothin' on Jenny Lawson! I love giving books like these to my kids so they can see that other people actually had it worse than they did.
Lawson writes the way I think - which isn't necessarily a good thing for everyone, but it works for me! She's very silly, and she's bringing us all along on her wacky, loopy ride. She grew up in West Texas in a place called Wall (I swear we drove through there on our road trip...), with live animals running through their house, and dead ones being stuffed next door at her father's taxidermy shop. She couldn't wait to get out of crazy town. Now she's a mom herself and suddenly finds herself longing for those good ol' bad ol' days...
My favorite parts are when she runs out of clean dishes and her husband walks in to find her eating off of a Frisbee (not that I'D ever do anything like that - our Frisbees were pretty dirty too...) and trying to bake cookies in a never-used-before oven and almost burning the place down. I love this woman!
Lawson writes the way I think - which isn't necessarily a good thing for everyone, but it works for me! She's very silly, and she's bringing us all along on her wacky, loopy ride. She grew up in West Texas in a place called Wall (I swear we drove through there on our road trip...), with live animals running through their house, and dead ones being stuffed next door at her father's taxidermy shop. She couldn't wait to get out of crazy town. Now she's a mom herself and suddenly finds herself longing for those good ol' bad ol' days...
My favorite parts are when she runs out of clean dishes and her husband walks in to find her eating off of a Frisbee (not that I'D ever do anything like that - our Frisbees were pretty dirty too...) and trying to bake cookies in a never-used-before oven and almost burning the place down. I love this woman!
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