This book made me laugh right out loud so often that my husband kept running into the bedroom to see what was so funny. If you are looking for a book that is simultaneously delightfully whimsical and terrifyingly relatable, this is a great one.
It is all about the author, Jenny Lawson (known on the Internet as "The Blogess") and how she decided to be as happy as she possibly could for the sole purpose of spiting her social anxiety and depression diagnoses.
Much profanity, watch out for that.
My rating: * * * * *
I love books that can be real as well as entertaining. So often we are used to seeing what people sometimes refer to as the "highlight reel", or the Facebook version, of their lives--meaning, we only see the filtered, perfect-hair-and-makeup, right-lighting, posed version of people's lives, we don't often see the down-and-dirty, uglier-than-crap parts. But this book not only reveals those moments of the author's life, but begins to teach us to not only not be ashamed of those moments in our own lives but to celebrate them--we might even find our tribe that way.
