Status Updates From This Is Where I Leave You

still wondering why i’m reading this book bc it’s so damn bad

Still really funny

Really funny already. Love the way this guy writes.

“If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we’d never leave our bedrooms.”

“You got married right out of college. You’re terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”

“I go to this place where I’m totally present, but I’m also thinking that forty minutes ago I was walking through an amusement park with Penny, holding her hand, kissing the cotton candy off her lips. I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.”

“Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you’ve lost.”

“That’s the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.”

“Even under the best of circumstances, there’s just something so damn tragic about growing up.”

“Mom is a shrink, obviously. But she’s more than that. 25 years ago, she wrote a book called “Cradle and All: A Mother’s Guide to Enlightened Parenting.” The book was a national phenomenon and turned my mother into something of a celebrity expert on parenting. Predictably, my siblings and I were all screwed up beyond repair.“

Not loving this so far… might become a DNF

“his balls caught fire”

DNF

298

“Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don’t share our thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered down versions of them.”

You but like, some stuff is definitely better than the movie, but with a few other things I'm glad they decided to tweak a few things (I'm looking at you, first scene with Judd, Jenn and Wade!).

love the movie so i’m excited to read this… already seems to be good

Very similar to the movie, but some key plot differences for sure. I feel like I’m getting an inside look at the minds of men and I’m not sure how I feel about it.

La trama familiale, c’est pour me buter 😭😭😭

Sibling book club no. 1

Một cuốn sách đủ hài hước để khiến mình bật cười nhiều đoạn, hơi nhiều sex và hơi tục đối với nhiều người, nhưng tổng thể ok. Tên sách hơi cú lừa một tẹo khi nội dung hướng tới gia đình, thật sự nhìn thấy bản thân rất nhiều trong đó, nên có lẽ có vài điểm ưu ái vì sự đồng cảm.

Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. You have to lol at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you’ve lost.

Phillip is by far the best character in this book and that’s saying a lot considering i hate people named phillip

Started 11/28/22

Not sure I'll keep reading this one. Three chapters in and I was oddly triggered into thinking about my ex-whatever-he-was.

So far, just about as heartbreaking as I thought it would be. But there's a bit of hope still shining through it yet.

Im on page 35 and I can already tell this will be a favorite author simply based on the flow and the talent in the story telling.

I need to finish this book

can not wait to finish this tomorrow just so i can review it lol

Five stars already