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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
by Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author)
by Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author)
Highly entertaining, laugh out loud funny, with some teary and honest moments that gave me pause for thought. Let's Pretend This Never Happened moves straight to the top of my list of all-time favorite memoirs. Why? BECAUSE IT IS A FUCKING GREAT BOOK, YOU ASSHOLE!
Jenny Lawson first novel is as brilliantly written as her blog. She makes ample use of her signature writing style, with lots of italics, footnotes, postscripts, notes about her vagina, and sentences written entirely in upper case letters. It's like she's sitting right in the room reading to you, and *that's fucking awesome*.
Favorite chapters?
Stabbed by a Chicken because it was the first post I read on her blog. I was at work that day and I laughed so hard that I started to cry. People thought there was something wrong with me that day, because every time I thought about that giant five-foot chicken, it sent me into gales of laughter all over again.
If You Need an Arm Condom, It Might Be Time to Reevaluate Some of Your Life Choices because it's impossible to believe that a person can get her hand stuck in a cow's vagina.
A Series of Helpful Post-It Notes I Left Around the House for My Husband This Week. Just hilarious.
I considered adding up all the vagina references and then realized it would be an impossible job, so I'm just going to say that I think her second book should be called The Vagina Memoirs, or something to that effect. This probably isn't a new idea for Jenny. In fact, I'm pretty sure she referred to it somewhere in her book.
Her description of her battle with rheumatoid arthritis was as accurate as it can get. I felt like I was reading about myself and my own struggles with arthritis, and that made me love her even more. Here is a woman who has lived an unusual life and has been dealt a bit of an unfair hand, but she chooses to look at the beauty of her life and not focus on the negative. In fact, she sums things up perfectly in her epilogue by writing, "...you are not defined by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. Because there is joy in embracing -rather than running from-the absurdity of life. Remember that, y'all.
Jenny Lawson first novel is as brilliantly written as her blog. She makes ample use of her signature writing style, with lots of italics, footnotes, postscripts, notes about her vagina, and sentences written entirely in upper case letters. It's like she's sitting right in the room reading to you, and *that's fucking awesome*.
Favorite chapters?
Stabbed by a Chicken because it was the first post I read on her blog. I was at work that day and I laughed so hard that I started to cry. People thought there was something wrong with me that day, because every time I thought about that giant five-foot chicken, it sent me into gales of laughter all over again.
If You Need an Arm Condom, It Might Be Time to Reevaluate Some of Your Life Choices because it's impossible to believe that a person can get her hand stuck in a cow's vagina.
A Series of Helpful Post-It Notes I Left Around the House for My Husband This Week. Just hilarious.
I considered adding up all the vagina references and then realized it would be an impossible job, so I'm just going to say that I think her second book should be called The Vagina Memoirs, or something to that effect. This probably isn't a new idea for Jenny. In fact, I'm pretty sure she referred to it somewhere in her book.
Her description of her battle with rheumatoid arthritis was as accurate as it can get. I felt like I was reading about myself and my own struggles with arthritis, and that made me love her even more. Here is a woman who has lived an unusual life and has been dealt a bit of an unfair hand, but she chooses to look at the beauty of her life and not focus on the negative. In fact, she sums things up perfectly in her epilogue by writing, "...you are not defined by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. Because there is joy in embracing -rather than running from-the absurdity of life. Remember that, y'all.
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