FURIOUSLY HAPPY

By Jenny Lawson

Reasons you should read this book:

It will make you laugh. I’m a firm believer that the more you laugh, the better your life is. Jenny Lawson makes me laugh out loud, shake my head at strangers and mutter, “Kitten Mittens!” while trying to compose myself. There is no better way to embarrass your significant other then to break out into an uncontrollable fit of laughter in the middle of a quiet waiting room, plane or place of worship. Bonus points if you try to explain the scene in the book and get a horrified response, because you didn’t do much justice in explaining a stuffed raccoon that spent a weekend of debauchery in Vegas.

It will make you uncomfortable. Why is that a good thing? Because we grow from learning about things we don’t know about, especially things that are outside our comfort zone. If you are already an expert on fish, learning the scale count on a trout isn’t going to enlighten you. But getting a more personal insider's perspective on mental illness or problems from being a woman could make you a better person.

I didn’t know there were so many jokes to be made out of inappropriate source material. I’ll save the surprises for you, dear reader, but believe me there are quite a few curveballs I was not expecting, but was delighted to be blindsided by.

If you find yourself loving this book as much as I did, fear not, there is another by Jenny Lawson that is also wonderful and magical. Let’s Pretend this Never Happened has more childhood trauma, less insight to pharmacists eating dog biscuits. More Magical Squirrels and less about the crushing effects of depression. She also has a blog, which I’ll link for you.

http://thebloggess.com/ 

Please read these magical novels, the world owes you nothing but Jenny Lawson turns that nothing into a big bowl of medicated possibilities.