Book review (for those of you who still read)

I recently just finished up Jenny Lawson AKA The Bloggess book called Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir). This book has been by far one of the most entertaining I have read within the past few years. Jenny has an uncanny sense of humor that some would call offensive but I call it amazing. She spent the past 11 years collecting her life stories and put them all together in this 300 page memoir. Some of the stories documented in her book are horribly twisted and probably wont be funny or entertaining for the average person but for those who have a sick outlook on life should definitely read this. The book ranges from Jenny's childhood up until the present and all the moments that make up ones life. We all have moments in our childhood that have scarred us or humiliated us but the normal person will never have such stories as her. You can catch tales of her being inside a dead deer, living with raccoons (who happen to wear MC Hammer pants....no joke!), artificially inseminating a cow as a school course and much much more.....and that's just her childhood. Once you start reading this book it will having you laughing over the most outlandish things one could write but be warned- you will probably go to hell for doing so. Later in the book you are introduced to her husband Victor, this is where a majority of the hilarity ensues. Victor and Jenny are complete opposites but they have this love that one could only dream of. Victor often shoots down her crazy ideas and theories such as how she has finger cancer or that they live on top of an Indian burial ground even though she may have valid points. However throughout the book you not only see the funny side you also read about more sensitive and touching areas of her life. You may get a bit emotional over such talks about miscarriages, animals passing away and just growing as a person in general.

On top of the entertaining, horrifying, embarrassing and sometimes sweet stories unfold you come to appreciate her style of writing. She isn't writing to write she is having a conversation with the reader and has a sharp tongue with her delivery. She comes across as a snarky and sometimes bitchy person in her writing but it is what makes her more relatable (well at least for me). I feel confident in saying she will become a strong woman figure in writing and blogging. I strongly recommend reading this book, especially if you're into wildly inappropriate topics. As one reviewer put it "There's something wrong with Jenny Lawson--magnificently wrong. I defy you to read her work and not hurt yourself laughing."

You can find her book on Amazon or at most Barnes and Noble. Also you can check her out while she is on her book tour.

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