Furiously Happy
Buy Now
By using these links, you support READO. We receive an affiliate commission without any additional costs to you.
Description
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.
Book Information
Posts
"this has got to be the funniest book ever, depending on how often you chuckle and laugh out loud everytime I see you reading this." -my wife And it is definetly one of the most funniest books I've ever read. Jenny Lawson writes in a standup Comedian way, in which she nails every Punchline. She comes up with things of her everyday life leaving you with "nah I don't believe this" but then you turn the page and see a photo of the whole Situation. The racoon on the cover? That's a bad taxidermy she owns. She even has two of them! And That's all you need to know about Jenny Lawson and her Humor. It took me a year to read this book, not because it's bad written or boring or hard to read. No, it's because I never wanted it to end and just snacked some chapters here and there of it to brighten my days.
I laughed, I cried, I laughed again. Stayed up one night because that the chapter I read was a terrible trigger and brought up so many emotions reminding me that there are lots of people who are just as broken as me, so I just have to remember that I am enough. I randomly giggled at some of the ridiculousness of what I just read. Woke my husband up to read the same thing knowing if I explained it he wouldn’t believe me. Most of all I just loved the book. Thank you Jenny Lawson 😘
Description
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.
Book Information
Posts
"this has got to be the funniest book ever, depending on how often you chuckle and laugh out loud everytime I see you reading this." -my wife And it is definetly one of the most funniest books I've ever read. Jenny Lawson writes in a standup Comedian way, in which she nails every Punchline. She comes up with things of her everyday life leaving you with "nah I don't believe this" but then you turn the page and see a photo of the whole Situation. The racoon on the cover? That's a bad taxidermy she owns. She even has two of them! And That's all you need to know about Jenny Lawson and her Humor. It took me a year to read this book, not because it's bad written or boring or hard to read. No, it's because I never wanted it to end and just snacked some chapters here and there of it to brighten my days.
I laughed, I cried, I laughed again. Stayed up one night because that the chapter I read was a terrible trigger and brought up so many emotions reminding me that there are lots of people who are just as broken as me, so I just have to remember that I am enough. I randomly giggled at some of the ridiculousness of what I just read. Woke my husband up to read the same thing knowing if I explained it he wouldn’t believe me. Most of all I just loved the book. Thank you Jenny Lawson 😘