CURRENTLY LISTENING TO (#4): FURIOUSLY HAPPY by JENNY LAWSON

"What I want you to know: Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. Clinical depression is no fucking picnic."

"Like my grandmother always said, “Your opinions are valid and important. Unless it’s some stupid bullshit you’re being shitty about, in which case you can just go fuck yourself."

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Facts:

Title: Furiously Happy

Author: Jenny Lawson

Narrator: Jenny Lawson

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Publication Year: 2015

Format: Audiobook

Time: 8 hrs 20 mins

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor, Memoir...

"Don’t sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free."

Summary: 

In LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED,Jenny Lawson baffled readers with stories about growing up the daughter of a taxidermist. In her new book, FURIOUSLY HAPPY, Jenny 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.

According to Jenny: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he's never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos."

"Most of my favorite people are dangerously fucked-up but you'd never guess because we've learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new normal. Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, 'We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.' Except go back and cross out the word 'hiding.'"

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?

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