Let's Pretend This Never Happened

A Mostly True Memoir

De: Jenny Lawson

Narrado por: Jenny Lawson

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Furiously Happy.

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 Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are 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.

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"Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny." —Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors and This is How

“There’s something wrong with Jenny Lawson—magnificently wrong. I defy you to read her work and not hurt yourself laughing.” —Jen Lancaster


“The Bloggess writes stuff that actually is laugh-out-loud, but you know that really you shouldn’t be laughing and probably you’ll go to hell for laughing, so maybe you shouldn’t read it. That would be safer and wiser.” —Neil Gaiman

“Jenny Lawson is hilarious, snarky, witty, totally inappropriate, and ‘Like Mother Teresa, Only Better.’” —Marie Claire magazine

“Jenny Lawson’s writing is nothing less than revolutionary. . . . I say this without a hint of exaggeration: She may be one of the most progressive women’s voices of our time.” —Karen Walrond, author of The Beauty of Different

less swearing than I thought there would be.

Would you listen to Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) again? Why?

I've been reading her blog since the Accidental Christmas miracle of St. James Garfield and have been looking forward to this book for a long time.(check it out on her blog, it's not in the book.)

What other book might you compare Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) to and why?

Tina Fey, Winston Churchill

Which scene was your favorite?

The extra chapter (not in the book) about her job as a snowcone barrista.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

the origin of the "vagina" drinking game.

Made me laugh AND cry

This is one of the best memoirs I have ever read (or listened to). I can't even begin to describe this woman's life -- just read the book.
I have two quibbles. I am neither a prude nor the grammer police, but if Ms. Lawson would have cut the use of the f-bomb by half and the number of "totallys" by three-quarters, it would have been a five-star book. Basically, those f-in words just get to be like totally boring after a while, basically. :)

Shoot urself now.

The ramblings of a normal white woman, that wants to believe she is a square peg in a round hole...
I did enjoy her ramblings... I bought 2 of her audiobooks so far... I hate myself for being a fan.

The print/e-book is better

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Jennie Lawson is an amazing writer of the humorous strange things of her life. I read the print book at had to put it down at times because I was laughing so hard. Content-wise, this book is a winner~

What other book might you compare Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) to and why?

BossyPants

How could the performance have been better?

Authors reading their own material can find it tricky. Lawson is not a polished speaker - I attended a live reading and book-signing, and she both spoke too quickly and swallowed her words - all the marks of someone who could use a bit of training and be fabulous.

The book suffers the same problems. I didn't find her accent an issue at all, but the speed of her speech, the slides of words means that she sometimes just stomps past her punchlines.

And one enormously distracting performance issue is the singing of the chapter titles - they are WAY TOO LOUD (hey Audible, I CAN HEAR HER!), and therefore even more annoying. Next time, just say the title normally.

Funniest thing I've ever listened to!

Great stories. Great narration. Absolutely couldn't put it down. I love this author's sense of humor.