Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible ThingsBy Jenny Lawson

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In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.

But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.

As Jenny says:

"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.'"

Furiously Happy is about "taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they're the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. It's the difference between "surviving life" and "living life". It's the difference between "taking a shower" and "teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair." It's the difference between being "sane" and being "furiously happy."

Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. This is a book about embracing everything that makes us who we are - the beautiful and the flawed - and then using it to find joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Because as Jenny's mom says, "Maybe 'crazy' isn't so bad after all." Sometimes crazy is just right.

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible ThingsBy Jenny Lawson

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1231 in Books
• Brand: Lawson, Jenny
• Published on: 2015-09-22
• Released on: 2015-09-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.72" h x 1.10" w x 6.24" l,
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible ThingsBy Jenny Lawson

Amazon.com Review

An Amazon Best Book of September 2015: Jenny Lawson follows up her marvelous debut Let’s Pretend This Never Happened with her determination to be furiously happy: she will seize the strangest and most glorious moments of her life while she stares down her depression, severe anxiety, avoidant personality disorder, and much more—and dares it to stop her. Furiously Happy is not only a battle cry but a delirious seesaw of a memoir. One moment you swoop upward as Lawson relates her attempts to hold a koala in Australia while wearing a koala costume and explains her quirky love for taxidermied animals (who must be dead from natural causes only), and you’re giggling like a three-year-old. Then your stomach drops like an artillery shell when Lawson exposes the dark side of her mental illnesses: trying not to cut herself and holing up in her bedroom for days on end. The ups and downs make this a difficult book to read all in one go. However, Lawson uses both her hilarious and heartbreaking episodes to camouflage so many life lessons and biting observations. (A poignant example: when cancer victims don’t respond to medication, no one blames the cancer victim; people with mental illness don’t get the same respect.) This is a book you’ll want to savor. Whether or not you too suffer from depression, you’ll turn the last page fired up by Lawson’s conviction that you can be furiously happy no matter what life hurls at you.--Adrian Liang

Review

“Jenny made me laugh so hard I feared for my safety! I think that's how she was able to get past my defenses and make me feel more okay about myself.” ―Allie Brosh, author of Hyperbole and a Half

“You'll laugh, wince, writhe in discomfort, cry, then laugh again. You might even feel the need to buy a raccoon. But the two things you'll never do is doubt Jenny's brilliance or her fearlessness when it comes to having honest discussions about mental illness, shame, and the power of human resilience. She's changing the conversation one rented sloth at a time.” ―Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Daring Greatly

“I freaked strangers out by snort-laughing on the subway and in restaurants. I can't stop talking about this book to friends. I'll shut up now and let you resume your life but buy this book. It's AMAZING.” ―Paul Fischer, author of A Kim Jong-Il Production

“The Bloggess writes stuff that actually is laugh-out-loud, but you know that really you shouldn't be laughing and probably you'll go to hell for laughing, so maybe you shouldn't read it. That would be safer and wiser.” ―Neil Gaiman

“Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny.” ―Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors and This Is How

“Lawson's self-deprecating humor is not only gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate; it allows her to speak...in a real and raw way.” ―O, The Oprah Magazine

“[Lawson] writes with a rambling irreverence that makes you wish she were your best friend.” ―Entertainment Weekly

“Take one part David Sedaris and two parts Chelsea Handler and you'll have some inkling of the cockeyed humor of Jenny Lawson...[She] flaunts the sort of fearless comedic chops that will make you spurt Diet Coke through your nose.” ―Parade

About the Author JENNY LAWSON, The Bloggess, is an award-winning humor writer known for her great candor in sharing her struggle with depression and mental illness. Her first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.

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54 of 60 people found the following review helpful. " is one of my favorite books of all time--I recommend it to everyone (and ... By Amazon Customer Jenny ,Lawson's first book, "Let's Pretend This Never Happened," is one of my favorite books of all time--I recommend it to everyone (and I'm a bookseller, so I recommend it to a LOT of people) and so far no one has been disappointed. That book was hugely successful so there was a lot of pressure on Jenny (and anyone who follows her blog, The Bloggess, is on a first-name basis with her) to put out another similar book--a laugh-out-loud collection of stories involving her particularly unique set of adventures and somewhat bizarre sense of humor (and I mean that in the best way imaginable).It would have been completely understandable if she had caved to expectations and written another light-hearted collection of anecdotes. But Jenny is her own person and uniquely connected and attuned to her online audience so this book is a departure. In her latest book she shares quite openly the struggles she faces with various forms and degrees of mental illness and the world will be a better place for her stories. Anyone who struggles with their own demons will feel like someone finally "gets" them and that they've come home and found their tribe. Anyone who has a loved one facing similar struggles will gain a greater understanding of the pain and heartache experienced by those of us with brains wired in a slightly different way. This book is still a pee-your-pants belly laugh read--yet a treatise on understanding and living with mental illness in a world that is very slowly becoming more tolerant of those with beautiful minds.

445 of 540 people found the following review helpful. Funny, but... By Angie Hill Like Lawson's first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Furiously Happy is furiously funny. Since I share the author's outlandish sense of humor, I thought this book and its premise of coping with mental illness would be uplifting. However, reading this book made me feel that she is more than a bit disconnected from the average person's experience with anxiety/depression/chronic insomnia. Being too depressed to get out of bed is probably somewhat easier for a successful blogger/author who doesn't have a 9-5 job to go to each day. Being completely unmotivated to clean one's house due to depression is likely not that big of a problem for someone who casually mentions their maid service. Feelings of failure and loneliness/alienation maybe do not affect someone as sharply when they have a best-selling book under their belt and can text Neil Gaiman for advice when troubled. Hiding from the UPS man to avoid human contact seems like a breeze compared to forcing one's self to get up each day, drag into work, and interact with coworkers when all a person wants to do is become a hermit. Buying a house in an exclusive gated community to avoid a celebrity stalker doesn't garner much pity from someone as ordinary as myself.I am sure the author's life contains its own set of challenges and stresses that are especially hard to battle while suffering from mental illness, and I likely am too judgemental to think that she has it easier than the average person. Perhaps I should try to view this book in a more positive light, seeing it as an inspirational message of how someone can overcome their difficulties and succeed in life in spite of depression and anxiety. However, I feel that the author humble-bragged and name-dropped a bit too much for me feel any sense of kinship or connection to a fellow sufferer of mental illness.

46 of 55 people found the following review helpful. Furiously happy, but not funny By A. Johnson I adored "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" and enjoy her blog. I was very curious and excited to read "Furiously Happy." She described it as a funny book that dealt with mental illness. The tag line is "A Funny Book About Horrible Things." The back is full of endorsements from people saying "it's funny! it's funny! it's funny!"It's not very funny.Humor-wise, this book was a big step down from her last book. The humorous parts are greatly outweighed by the more serious parts. I was excited and relieved when I got to an essay that seemed like it was going to be humorous but they generally felt forced and very one note. Also, the essays were all over the place in terms of time. I like her rambling style but it worked better in her first book because she was following a general timeline of her life.All that said, I thought the essays and parts about her various struggles with mental illness were very good. I admire her honesty, desire to lessen the stigma associated with mental illness, and her commitment to find the best way to manage her mental health issues. But I would have preferred a book that was straight up about her mental illness. I had been so excited to see how has she made such a serious topic funny and am disappointed that the answer is: she didn't.

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