First of all I'd like to say that Jenny
Lawson had me on her book cover alone! Who doesn't love a white mouse
doing Shakespeare? Her memoir entitled “Let's pretend this never
happened made me laugh so hard that I cried. Even as I was laughing,
I was thinking, "Should I be laughing at this?”
Let's pretend starts out with hilarious
childhood stories that revolve around Jenny's unconventional taxidermist
father and kindhearted mother. Most of us did not grow up with dead
animal carcasses hanging around the house but Jenny Lawson did and it
served many humorous moments. She holds nothing back. She tells of
her struggles to get pregnant, of her marriage, of her patient
husband, and many other anecdotal incidents along the way. Though
this book is written as a humor novel, it is also a tale of a woman
who struggles with anxiety disorder which often inhibits her in
social situations while providing her a unique strange view of the
world.
I could relate to Jenny Lawson in that,
like me, she realizes that her experiences in life has made her the
unique individual she is and that she wouldn't trade it for anything
else. Plus, she also believes in the impending zombie apocalypse!
Definitely a woman after my own heart!
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