Jenny Lawson

Every teenager wants to fit in and be just like everybody else. So imagine how hard that is when your father runs a taxidermy business out of the family home, your mother runs the student cafeteria, and your sister has just been elected high school mascot, which means she walks the halls in a giant bird costume. But as Jenny Lawson grows up, falls in love, gets engaged – in a way that is as disastrous as it is romantic – and starts a family of her own, she learns that life’s most absurd and humiliating moments, the ones we wish we could pretend had never happened, are the very same moments that make us who we are. This is an often poignant, sometimes disturbing, but always hilarious book from a writer that dares to say your deepest and strangest thoughts out loud. Like laughter at a funeral, it is both highly irreverent and impossible to stop once you’ve started . . .

(A Mostly True Memoir)

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

A go-to recommendation for anyone needing a laugh and to feel less alone in life’s quirks and mental health adventures. 

Cerys Goodall

In an illustrated memoir, the creator of the Bloggess web log shares humorous stories from her life, including her awkward upbringing in Texas and her relationship with her husband. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.

(a Mostly True Memoir)

Let's Pretend this Never Happened

Lara Engle

One evening when I was home alone, I was reading this book on the couch. My man-friend, roommate, domestic partner, whatever (I feel too old to have a boyfriend) came home and quietly went about his just-got-home tasks. I figured he would say hi after he'd set down his keys, emptied his pockets, etc. He'd already walked by me twice. Just as he re-entered the room, I laughed out loud at something in the book. He yelled in alarm and startled so largely that I thought he might hurt himself. It took a few minutes for him to get his heart rate back to normal. He hadn't seen me on the couch and figured I was upstairs.

So, here's your recommendation: a book so entertaining that it may kill your boyfriend.

Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny' Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors Have you ever embarrassed yourself so badly you thought you'd never get over it? Have you ever wished your family could be just like everyone else's? Have you ever been followed to school by your father's herd of turkeys, mistaken a marriage proposal for an attempted murder or got your arm stuck inside a cow? OK, maybe that's just Jenny Lawson . . . The bestselling memoir from one of America's most outlandishly hilarious writers.

Melody Izard

She rambles and cusses and speaks with a mouthful of cliches - but somehow she wins you over and you have to laugh out loud. There are a lot of stuffed animals and way too many vagina jokes but it's still a chuckle.

Emir Andrés Ibañez

Un libro para reírte sin parar. En serio, dénle una hojeada, se llevarán una gran sorpresa.

Анастасия Розова

I liked this a little bit less than Furiously Happy, but I enjoyed it anyway. I can't even say why I enjoyed this book less, I think it was just as good as the first one (well, technically, the second one). But something was off, can't say what exactly. Maybe it was, after all, a bit weaker. 

It's a fun and funny memoir of a woman who suffers from generalized anxiety, depression and arthritis. And she. Is. Amazing. Such a strong woman. I honestly admire her and think she's a bit crazy, but in a good way. I find her jokes and storied to be hilarious, if not always laugh out loud funny.

I also immensely enjoyed the end where Jenny just talked nonsense into the microphone, pretty sure it wasn't in the physical book (I might be wrong, I don't own it).

Overall a great experience. I'll be waiting for more books by Jenny.

The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside

Allyson Marrs

Oh, boo. This book...imagine that girl you know who always has a better story to tell, at least she thinks so. She's like, "You'll NEVER believe what happened to me!" And then she goes on and on, and turns a tangent into an exhausting series of tangents, all with language that makes you want to strangle her. Look, I'm not saying this was a terrible read (or audio book, in my case), but I am saying it could have been edited a million times over so it sounded less like a long-winded blog post written by a teenager and more like a humorous memoir written by a...writer.

Perhaps the audio book was particularly terrible because it was read by the author. I felt like I was stuck at a party with that annoying, weird guest everyone is trying to escape. I stopped listening with one disc left because it was really just exhausting. Guess I'm part of the minority on this one!

b.andherbooks

Blogger Jenny Lawson's life is pretty crazy, as she will often tell you. Most of her stories are rather hilarious, my favorites including the bobcat throwing at her fiancee or the "large Wisconsin grouse."

I definitely enjoyed her narration (really cute voice and accent) but sometimes grew fatigued of the wild heights some of her tales took. Many were played out as exagerated dialogue which led me to doubt how true some of her vignets really were.

Enjoyable over all, but may have been better as a print read so I could take breaks and come back whenever I needed a giggle.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir)

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