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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 25, 2016 Piepie | The Napping Bibliophile rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I think that if I had a mental illness or disorder or something, I would have enjoyed this book more. Not to say it wasn't funny, because it was, but I think I would have appreciated it more and gotten more out of it if I had a mental illness and could see where Jenny was coming from.

She's almost childlike in what she does, and at the beginning, her high-pitched Texan voice irritated me, but I grew used to it. Her sketches and vignettes from life made me snort, snicker, and laugh-- I love when ...more

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Feb 03, 2018 Isabel Jazmín rated it really liked it

Creo que el subtítulo del libro encierra una síntesis: "un libro gracioso acerca de cosas horribles". El estilo de Jenny es muy chistoso, logra hacer que te rías sobre temas tristes y agobiantes. Lo que más me gustó es la idea que le da título al libro: si una persona con depresión es capaz de entristecerse muchísimo por detalles muy pequeños, también debería ser posible que se pusiera muy feliz (furiosamente feliz) por los detalles más pequeños.
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