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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Jenny Lawson

Start date: November 10, 2015

Finish date: November 13, 2015

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Jan 11, 2018 Danielle rated it liked it

Shelves: short-story-collection, nonfiction, 2018

I don't always follow along with Jenny's stories or obsessions or phobias, but then she ends the book with something like this and I'm glad I read it anyway. "Ground zero is where the normal people live their lives, but not us. We live in the negatives so often that we begin to understand that life when the sun shines should be lived full throttle, soaring. The invisible tether that binds the normal people on their steady course doesn’t hold us in the same way. Sometimes we walk in sunlight with ...more

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Jul 07, 2017 Una rated it it was ok

I tried listening to this until the end but I was done by chapter 20. I am not really sure what this book is really supposed to be about. She goes on and on on so many tangents and it's just not interesting. So many people said how funny this book is and how much they loved it but I didn't feel that way about it at all. I rarely give up on a book and I gave up on this one.. ...more

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Jul 13, 2015 Julianne Dunn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I've never listened to a book that I wanted to buy in its paper version so badly. In fact, I will be. I need to put little post-its in all the places where she spoke so deeply to me. ...more

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