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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

Jenny Lawson

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Books Recommended But Not Read Part I - Leftovers from 2nd Bk Choice
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last updated Jun 28, 2012 05:44PM

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Apr 11, 2018 J.A. McLachlan rated it it was amazing

Funny, charming, sad and endearing. But mostly funny, in a way we can all relate to. We've all had those awkward moments when we put our foot in our mouth and lost direction, desperately trying to pull it out while actually pushing it in further. Or times when we got frantically upset over something that didn't quite warrant that degree of reaction -- a tempest in a teacup, my mother would say.
Jenny lets us laugh at our own foibles while commiserating with hers, and we are heartened by her happy ...more

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Apr 30, 2012 Esther Bradley-detally rated it it was amazing

So, you are ambling along in the library, and you check into your books on hold. Did I mention, I'm a memoir addict? Yep, I ordered a book based on the cover, and of course that it's a memoir. A white rat who looks in need of dental work, with a black velvet cape, and it's red silk on the inside, and his rat feet look like a DSW size 10? He has a white ruffled tutu type collar, the kind used in medieval days, which if you want to know seem just like yesterday.

Okay, okay, the author? She's called So, you are ambling along in the library, and you check into your books on hold. Did I mention, I'm a memoir addict? Yep, I ordered a book based on the cover, and of course that it's a memoir. A white rat who looks in need of dental work, with a black velvet cape, and it's red silk on the inside, and his rat feet look like a DSW size 10? He has a white ruffled tutu type collar, the kind used in medieval days, which if you want to know seem just like yesterday.

Okay, okay, the author? She's called "The Bloggess," and did I meet her in my My Name is Not blog April challenge, MNINB, an exchanting challenge which caused a loose knot in the sky, a gnarled rotting elbow on a tree to fall on my neck and pressure stress liquids into my brain? I don't know where I discovered her, but Reader, I read this book while slammed with the process of April Challenged which Not Bob gave to us bloggers, and I laughed, and chuckled, and snuffled and snorted at midnight, in the quiet ambiance of our 2-room pool house of the high ceilings and spillage of computer material, books, whatever.

Okay, sorry for the hotdogging, but The Blogess, aka Jenny Lawson, wrote "A Mostly True Memoir," and that works for me. She had me on the rat cover. I love the abandoned warrens of her mind, picture Kafka jokes as her thoughts trot ahead of us readers, twisting, turning, always into belly laughing and chortles. She is snarky indeeed, and she got me on "folded vagina," and claimed my heart and soul when I discovered she had a Pug, Barnaby Jones.

The book is filled with huge metal chickens, small creatures of the stuffed kind (her father was a crazy Taxidermist).

Reader, what is one to do with chapter titles like, "Stabbed by Chicken," "Hairless Rats Free for Kids Only," and an enchanting view of detachment from a bizarro childhood, and intersticial laughter and views of a marriage with an wonderfully funny man.

I read the first few pages, and thought, maybe I'm too old for this contemporary writing, but when I finished this book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson's writing claimed me.

My brother--in-law called me "The Bro-ess," and now I the Broess am on the devotee path of one Bloggess. Kudos to all who write. ...more

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Jul 12, 2012 Carol rated it really liked it

This book has lots of laugh out loud moments. The pace is fast and random. It reads like a conversation with your foul mouthed friend. A conversation that roams across the subject matter. Okay, maybe a conversation while you are drinking and your mind just moves around a subject. Somewhere near the end I was getting a bit tired but then it perked back up. I enjoyed the book and even read parts out loud to my husband. Yea, he thought I was nuts.

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May 06, 2012 Diana rated it really liked it

This is a hilarious romp through the famed internet blogger, the Bloggess's world. I enjoyed every hilarious page. If you don't mind occasional profanity and some gross scenes with dead animals, this is the book for you. If you want a taste of her style before reading, checkout her blog at: thebloggess.com If nothing else, you will never forget the experience. ...more

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Feb 27, 2012 Sarah Turnbull rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Jul 06, 2019 Jeannine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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