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My thoughts

3.5/5stars I AM GOING TO BE FURIOUSLY HAPPY, OUT OF SHEER SPITE. This is the memoir of a blogger who has numerous health issues both physical and mental. From what I remember, she has described herself as having clinical depression, severe anxiety disorder and personality disorders which make her want to stay away from people. She also has rheumatoid arthritis, some auto-immune diseases, self harm issues and mild OCD. And she has decided to be Furiously Happy out of spite, because she is tired of being sad. Jenny Lawson is very funny. Like, in a very insane, bizarre, what the fuck did she just say kind of way and her blog is so so so amazing. I only recently got to know about her and her blog/books. This was my first ever book by her and let's just say I haven't laughed out loud so much in a while. I loved reading her random anecdotes about snakes and cats and koalas and sleeping on the floor. But was there a point of connection or coherence between all of these random anecdotes? I don't know. Don't get me wrong THEY WERE HELLA FUN TO READ INDIVIDUALLY but to club them all together in a book? I don't know where we were going with that. I wish someone had told me this simple but confusing truth: Even when everything’s going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can’t always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect. There were a lot of serious issues touched upon here, but none of them were discussed in any seriousness anywhere in the book. Whenever it came to it, the topic was deflected with pointless humour and never checked back again, which is kind of disappointing. If you're looking to learn something about any of these issues from this book, I don't think that it's going to work. But if you just want awkward stories to laugh on about and relate to, this is your pick. What I want you to know: Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. Clinical depression is no fucking picnic. One other thing, I would suggest anyone trying to read her books for the first tie, GO IN ORDER. there are some things mentioned here from her last book (which I did not read before this) and I didn't quite understand those references. CWs for the book: This whole book is a TW for all of the health issues Jenny has(mentioned earlier) and a lot of dead animals here and there, keep that in mind before going into it.