Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) | 
Next up on audiobook. I listened to Furiously Happy earlier this year and laughed my ass off so decided to listen to Jenny Lawson's other books. The past couple of weeks have been rough mentally so I figured I need a few good laughs.
#manicmonday on friyay because it‘s been a week
#letterL
📚 tagged
🖋 Jenny Lawson
📺 Lucifer
🎤 LP
🎶 Lost on You (by LP)
When you're reading while supervising 2nd grade homework, and they ask you what your book is about ... (Sometimes it's not wrong to lie, or at least creatively edit the truth.)
pickI'll admit I spent a little more time horrified v. chortling as compared to when I read her 2nd memoir, but I love the framework: anecdotes moving through stages of author's life, struggles, victories and experience of mental illness. A special place in my heart for GPS/robot chapter. Fellow vegans might want to prep with a more thorough synopsis. 😬 Mentions of ED.
Today's WINNING chapter title. And Alternative ...TRUTH. 🤌🏻
When your friends haven‘t read any Jenny Lawson, you HAVE to go pick up copies of her whole collection at Half Price Books for them to share! I can‘t wait to laugh with them as they bask in the hilarity. Jenny can make me laugh til I cry.
This ebook is on sale. By Jenny Lawson who is practically my neighbor, or at least her bookstore, which is about 5 minutes from my house.
so-soThis was funny, but not as funny overall as I had hoped. As my friends informed me, there are many stories that sound like things that would happen to one member of our friend group, and those were the best but that‘s pretty specific 😆 I found her relationship with Victor very uncomfortable at the beginning—I‘m sure it was exaggerated for comic effect, but I didn‘t find it that comical. I liked their relationship more as the book went on, though.
pickI have finally read all three of Jenny‘s books! I think Broken remains my favorite. It‘s the most vulnerable but it also showcases how Jenny has evolved as a writer. This as her first book feels much less cohesive and focused than her later books. Her relationship with Victor is still my fave.
Didn‘t get pictures of my packages this time, but the #CreepyChristmasSwap and #WinterSolsticeSwap are on their merry way! Along with the first batch of #HolidayCardSwap cards. #CCS #WSS @teebe @sprainedbrain @Chrissyreadit @LibrarianRyan
“When other girls had tea parties on the playground, I brought out my secondhand Ouija board and attempted to raise the dead. While my classmates gave book reports on The Wind In The Willows or Charlotte‘s Web, I did mine on tattered, paperback copies of Stephen King novels that I‘d borrowed from my grandmother. Instead of Sweet Valley High, I read books about zombies and vampires.” #zombie #QuotsyOct21
“I assumed that Daddy had accidentally left a bobcat in the house, fallen asleep, realized his terrible mistake when he woke up and heard Victor‘s voice, and was now surreptitiously sneaking it out the back door so that Victor would never suspect that we were the type of family to keep live bobcats in the house. Unfortunately, that was not my father‘s intent at all...” #sneak #QuotsyOct21
pickI give this book five 🐁. Jenny Lawson has got to be one of the weirdest, funniest and most amazing people on the planet. Can‘t wait until she comes out with another book.
#curiouscovers #pets
Okay maybe not your traditional pet 😆
Love Jenny Lawson.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
pickReading Jenny‘s books in reverse order did me no favors because each newer book was better than the last. However, I still enjoyed her debut. Its more traditional memoir format gave context to the stories from Furiously Happy and Broken, especially those early in her life. The #audiobook bonus track about her working at the sno cone stand was actually a fav! (She‘s one I recommend listening to if you do audio at all!!)
Why didn't I think of that?! I was painfully shy growing, went to small agrarian school, and absorbed myself in books whenever possible...the Goth look may have been the perfect solution 🤔
I went to Jenny Lawson‘s bookstore last weekend. It was incredible and I got to meet her and chat a little. I love all her books, and it was very special. 😭😭😭
pickRandom Thoughts after finishing audio:
🔷Jenny Lawson is hilarious
🔶Everyone needs a Victor & Laura in their life
🔷Anxiety is a bitch
🔶Having a sense of humor is a blessing
🔷Taxidermy is more common than I thought
🔶Jenny Lawson is a super mom
🔷Wow, I recognize myself in some of Jenny‘s lunacy
🔶Living in the country sounds amazing
🔷Living in the country sounds horrifying
🔶We can all learn from Jenny
Current audiobook ❤️🎧I‘m really enjoying this one, even more than Furiously Happy.
Thanks for the recommendation @britt_brooke 😁
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lawson‘s excellent new memoir has me rereading her first two. I cannot stress enough that she must be consumed on audio! Her humor comes across SO much clearer. In these essays, we get a bit of family history, some insight to her eccentricities and numerous health battles. Lawson is a natural storyteller and just so damned funny. Btw, if you have issues with taxidermy, maybe skip this ... 😅 #reread
Jenny Lawson has opened her own indie bookstore in San Antonio, and offers online orders! Including personalized signed books by Jenny! They‘re still not offering personalization for Broken as its brand spanking new, but they do have signed copies of that as well! #bookmail
Link: https://www.nowherebookshop.com/signed-books-jenny-lawson
Jenny Lawson is keeping me company in the vaccine line. 🚗🛻🚙 First dose coming up! 💪🏻
#reread
#wondrouswednesday
1. Tagged
2. I think there are several fantasy master writers. It‘s hard to name just one. But a few names that come to mind are Terry Pratchett, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, and Robin Hobb
3. Jenny Lawson and Samantha Irby
Have you played? @TheSpineView @Klou @Mitch
pickI laughed so hard at this book that the bed shook and my wife was subjected to repeated readings of the stories which I know were barely intelligible because I was laughing so hard I could barely get the words out. But at least the bed was shaking on both sides at that point. ❤😂
12-29-20: My 113th finished book of 2020! This was a re-read for me. I decided to buy both of her books for myself for Christmas this year and re-read them to lift my spirits. This book talks about her upbringing in rural Texas, her marriage, the birth of her daughter and her love of taxidermy to name just a few things. Very funny stories and very honest account of her anxiety. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #letspretendthisneverhappened #jennylawson 📖#️⃣1️⃣1️⃣3️⃣
so-soLawson recounts tales of her youth and then as an adult in rural Texas, which happen to include a lot of taxidermy and dead animals in general.
Read December 18-22
Rated 2.5/5 ⭐️
Book 56/60
“if you try to make a shrimp boil, but the bag of spices bursts, and so you just toss it in along with whatever spices you can find in the pantry—you can make homemade pepper spray. Unintentionally. And everyone at your dinner party will run outside for the next hour, coughing & tearing up...I remind my gasping dinner guests that even if I did mace them, I did it in an old fashioned, #homemade, Martha Stewart sort of way. With love.” #QuotsyNov20
#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz
1. I believe it‘s the first memoir I‘ve read/listened to. I enjoyed listening to it on audio. Any recommendations?
2. It would be nice if Leonardo DiCaprio could write a memoir.
3. Not a chance! 😂 My life is the epitome of boring.
pick#Scarathlon2020 #TeamSlaughter
5⭐️
Loved this book! A re-read (audiobook this time) of Furiosly Happy may be in order😉
6🔪
1. My first time voting was back in 2016 (I voted for Trump and regret it 100%). I do plan on voting this year (And I plan on voting for the Green Party from now on). It's important to me because every vote counts in getting Trump and these career politicians out of office.
2. I'm thankful that we are inching closer to voting Trump out of office.
#ThankfulThursday
@Cosmos_Moon @AnneCecilie @blondie @Birdsong28 @TheNeverendingTBR @Blueberry
pickA hilarious read about family, individuality, and mental illness. It‘s easy to identify with her, even though our experiences are vastly different. She had me laughing till I cried and crying till I laughed. It was impossible to resist reading excerpts to my husband, who enjoyed it as much as I did.
#3books that made me laugh
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@OriginalCyn620
1. Oh, gosh! Dahlia? No, wait, AZ coneflower. Scratch that, sunflowers 🌻 Aaah!🤦🏽♀️😅
2. I‘m kinda into “brusque” right now 🤷🏽♀️
3. All things mountain bike, especially enduro and downhill
#wonderouswednesday
Thanks @Eggs @JennyM
So needed something funny! Only 10% of the book and I‘ve already laughed till I cried. I figure if I read it in public, people will leave me alone, 😂
I just love her- this might be my new favorite signed book.
bailedI really, really have tried to like this book, but I am just finding Lawson‘s ramblings too exhausting and pointless. I love humorous memoirs (Sedaris, for example), but this just didn‘t work for me. It was like listening to a little kid making up a story. You‘re trying to follow along, but the child keeps getting distracted and adding to a now endless run-on sentence.
#75 because I could use a good, dark humored, laugh.
pickThis is the first book that made me laugh out loud. It's a memoir of Jenny's life; which was pretty interesting if I must say. I found it kind of funny that she sang the titles of the chapters. I highly recommend you listen to this on audio!
📚 Tagged. Not the first book that's made me laugh, obviously not the last, but it's the one that's made me laugh very loudly to myself on the train to the point that other passengers were getting worried. It's always the one I think of first.
📚 So, here's the thing, I'm not a cryer. So in all honesty, I don't remember what was the last book that made me cry.
@thespineview #two4tuesday
Tag, you're it! @rabbitprincess @vivastory @megabooks
I managed to read 29 books in May, which is definitely more than I thought it was. May felt very slow and it was my first month of classes so I was busy, but I‘m quite happy I read as many as I did! I‘m hoping to get these 9 off my TBR shelf in June!
