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This. Book. Is. Insane. I loved it. It was like listening to your crazy best friend tell weird stories for hours and hours. Jenny's misadventures include a bathtub of raccoons, getting her hand stuck up a cow's vagina, the day her family's pet turkeys followed her to school and got in the cafeteria, having her father throw a bobcat at her boyfriend as a joke, and hundreds more stories you have to read to believe. All of them are highly entertaining.
It sometimes goes off the rails. She has argume ...more
It sometimes goes off the rails. She has argume ...more
Wish I didn't pick this as my library's book club selection! Everyone is scandalized by the book (people who've read it will know why) even before our meeting and I have now sent an email out to the club telling them to bring their own ideas for books for the book club so all of the blame doesn't fall to me anymore. I liked the very end of the audiobook which I think is the author just rambling and not reading the book anymore. This might be my favorite part. She even acknowledges her frequent u
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Laughed out loud on the beach, watched Max borrow it and laugh out loud on the beach, then laughed out loud on Amtrak on the way home. I can't explain why Jenny Lawson is so much funnier than other writers, but she is.
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I don't follow Lawson's blog, but some of my friends do and everyone seemed to be enjoying this book, so at some point I picked it up when it was on sale on B&N. I enjoyed this, though it took me quite a while to really get into her style. Very reminiscent of David Sedaris - she's telling stories of her own life and in the process exposing all kinds of neuroses and things about herself. There are definitely some laugh out loud moments, and I particularly enjoyed the chapter about a retreat she t
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Really quite hilarious and absurd. A good read for a long car-trip - I had my carmates laughing to some of the more outrageous passages. I will also never look at taxidermy the same way again.
Apr 23, 2012
Ayla
marked it as to-read
Oct 11, 2012
Emilie
rated it
really liked it
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