“But it wouldn’t be better.”Ī brief run through of some of the chapter titles tells you most of what you need to know about this book: But her love for him and his for her is touchingly shown when she tells him his life would be easier without her. The arguments she has with husband Victor are a highlight of the book, as Jenny often goes off on a tangent that Victor finds increasingly difficult and frustrating to follow.
She clearly adores her family, but they don’t escape her unusual sense of humour. Jenny writes about her struggles with disarming honesty, the effects it has had on her life, her career and her family. This book focuses more on mental illness than the first book, but is no less hilarious for that. As someone with OCD and as the mother of a (now adult) son with generalised anxiety disorder and OCD, I’ve read a lot of books about these issues, but never have I read an author as inspiring, as honest and open and as terribly, horribly funny as Jenny Lawson. She has crippling depression and anxiety, and, on top of this, also has to contend with problems with her physical health. Jenny is breathtakingly and beautifully honest about her mental health issues.
I also adored her first book ‘ Let’s Pretend This Never Happened’, so I was so excited to read her second book. I’m a huge fan of Jenny Lawson’s blog ‘ The Bloggess’ which has had me laughing and crying on many occasions. Furiously Happy is a book about mental illness, but under the surface it’s about embracing joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Jenny’s first book, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, was ostensibly about family, but deep down it was about celebrating your own weirdness.
And terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.Īs 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. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. In her new book, Furiously Happy, she explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. In Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. 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…
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