Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

Furiously Happy

by Jenny Lawson

For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened...

In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. In her new book, Furiously Happy, she explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. And terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.

As Jenny says: 'You can't experience pain without also experiencing the baffling and ridiculous moments of being fiercely, unapologetically, intensely and (above all) furiously happy.' It's a philosophy that has - quite literally - saved her life.

Jenny's first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, was ostensibly about family, but deep down it was about celebrating your own weirdness. Furiously Happy is a book about mental illness, but under the surface it's about embracing joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. And who doesn't need a bit more of that?

Reviewed by Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews on

5 of 5 stars

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Three things I learned from Furiously Happy



  • Judge time based on before and after Kirk Cameron went crazy

  • You can never have too much cowbell

  • Normal is boring.  Weird is better.  Goats are awesome.

  • Choose to live furiously happy


 

No one is prepared for their first time nor do they ever forget it. That is how I felt listening to Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. I devoured this book in two days and was laughing out loud through most of it. Jenny has a unique, honest sense of humor that I took to immediately. Her frank, from-the-heart words on mental illness she encourages others to you do you and wave your crazy flag. Furiously Happy was enhanced by the author narrating the book, she has a great delivery which was probably in part, why I was laughing out loud. Furiously Happy is hilarious, inappropriate and real. Overall, it is brilliant.

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