
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.
In the irreverent Letâs Pretend This Never Happened, Lawsonâs long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human momentsâthe ones we want to pretend never happenedâare the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives.
Author:Â Jenny Lawson
Publisher:Â Berkley (April 17, 2012)
Chapters:Â Titled chapters that I am too lazy to count
Pages:Â 363

I was robbed of a sense of fulfillment and America has to answer this question, HOW DO YOU FIND THIS GARBAGE FUNNY? ARE YOU DEPRIVED OF LAUGHING GAS?
I have no idea who Jenny Lawson is and I donât intend to know her anyway, so there is no point (now) in me looking for her blog no matter how popular she might be in the blogosphere.
This memoir is overrated and the cursing was a huge turn-off. I canât take someone seriously when they curse⊠especially in a memoir⊠especially where it doesnât seem to fit! The curse bombs were there to give her a hip feeling, but it felt forced.

I tried to finish this book. I really did, but when I reached âIf You See My Liver, Youâve Gone Too Farâ I just had it!
HOW IN THE WORLD DID THIS OVERRATED MEMOIR GET RATED SO HIGH? HOW? HOW??? Why was this piece of junk made into print? I wouldn’t even use the pages of this book to go to the toilet if the world ran out of toilet paper!
The author was so wrapped up in trying to be funny, she succeeded in making her family sound like a bunch of sick individuals. I did not want to know how to clean a deer. Her father was a taxidermist and a psychopath. I mean, which sane person finds a dead squirrel and decides to stick their hand inside it and make a puppet out of it. And which father â taxidermist or not â throws a live bobcat at his daughterâs suitor? How is this acceptable by loving standards? And readers find this funny?

The book is not funny, it’s just overdramatic! I yawned throughout some chapters and when I fell asleep on the last one I was trying to read, it was the last straw. The book is pure drivel. Rambling drivel. The author was happy to focus on her so-call âcrazyâ childhood and âmental illnessâ making it seem extreme. Sister, please! It wasnât funny. You ainât funny. You arenât that messed up like you want people to think. No one cares about your vagina (I believe this is her favorite word. No, really! I must have seen it like a dozen times before she dedicated an entire chapter on it) You had/have it better than a lot of people and what do you do? You whine.

Nothing about her childhood was intriguing. Waste of time, waste of money (I am thankful that I didnât have to buy this garbage! Had I bought this book, I might have been kicking myself hard in the liver.) It was not funny and maybe these so-call reviewers need to stop kissing peopleâs behinds and be honest about their reviews for once. Thatâs right, Iâm talking to you, friends and acquaintances of the author and you too, People.

If you think something is wrong with my humor, itâs intact thank you very much. Lawson tried way too hard to present herself as this crazy wacky doodle (anything other than herself) and she believed it too.
Letâs Pretend I Never Attempted to Read This Drivel.

QUOTABLES:
Later that night I sat out on the porch, looking at the same stars Iâd stared at when I was ten and had longed to travel to places that existed only in mind. They were places like Egypt or France, but they were the Egypt and France of a childâs mind, filled with blurry visions of perfect pyramids, and warm sands, and Eiffel Towers, and something that people called âwine.â (Page 116)
The only best part of the book because I can relate. PLUS! Everyone knows how I feel about (Ancient) Egypt and France.
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