The ups and downs make this a difficult book to read all in one go.

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. 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. Furiously Happy is not only a battle cry but a delirious seesaw of a memoir. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Īn 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. Because as Jenny's mom says, 'Maybe 'crazy' isn't so bad after all.' Sometimes crazy is just right. 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. Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. 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.' It's the difference between 'surviving life' and 'living life'. Some of us are just better at hiding it.' Except go back and cross out the word 'hiding.''įuriously 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. Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, 'We're all pretty bizarre. '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. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos.

My husband says that none is the new limit. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. '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. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.īut terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness.

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