Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

I am soooo glad I read this book... it was great!  Here is the goodreads description:

For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York Times bestseller, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. Chapters include: “Stanley the Magical, Talking Squirrel”; “A Series of Angry Post-It Notes to My Husband”; “My Vagina Is Fine. Thanks for Asking”; “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane.” Pictures with captions (no one would believe these things without proof) accompany the text

First off I do NOT read non-fiction. I just don't enjoy it.  Typically it is boring to me... I feel bad for saying that.  I want to like non-fiction because I think it would make me a more informed and educated person.  I think the last non-fiction I read was Dewey the Library Cat and I didn't even finish it.  But THIS book here... WOW.  I only put it on hold at the library because I had seen some bloggers review it and then I heard Jenny the author was coming to Denver for a book signing (which I didn't go to after all).  So when the book came in, I glanced at her blog.  I thought the blog was pretty cool, I hadn't visited it before shockingly.  And then I glanced through the book and went ahead and read chapter one and I was HOOKED.

I will admit towards the end I start to get bored.  Not because of the book but just because non-fiction does that to me.  But otherwise this book is hilarious.  The author has such a great way of writing that makes her life seem like fiction.  I am a little confused though as to what was fiction and what was non-fiction.  So not sure if that is a good thing in a non-fiction book.  I had also heard before I started reading that Jenny has anxiety.  I also have anxiety so I was looking forward to the parts in her book that were about this.  There was a little bit in there but not as much as I would've like on the subject.

I can say I now follow her blog.  I am also looking forward to her next book.  I am assuming there will be a next book.  Jenny just writes with such ease, it's like she's sitting on the couch next to me telling me some great stories.  Read this book.. even if you don't like non-fiction like myself!

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