'When I grow up, I want to be Joss Whedon. 'This book is a good book and you should buy this book and read this book.' It made me resolve to spend more time being furiously happy.' It made me feel like maybe I'm not a total human trainwreck.

'This Book made me laugh in a restaurant, it made me cry on an Airplane. While it's still fresh in my mind, here are some Potential Blurbs for your book.' 'Jenny, after a long delay, I've finally finished your book while flying. I finished reading the book on an airplane, and I was so happy and weepy and amazed that I sent Jenny the following series of text messages: I want to encourage people to read the book so that your lives will be dramatically embettered. And when I love a book this much, I want to talk about it. She's got Gaiman, Allie Brosh, and all manner of other fancy folk singing her praises.) (Not that she particularly needed one from me. The bad news is that my life is such a bloody shambles that I didn't get back to her in time for a gushy blurb to make it onto the back of her book. I loved it even more than her first book, which I enjoyed so much that I bought multiple copies to give away as Christmas presents. Furiously Happy is about depression and mental illness, but deep down it's about joy-and who doesn't want a bit more of that?Įarlier this year, I was one of the lucky people Jenny sent an Advance Reading Copy of her newest book to. Let's Pretend This Never Happened ostensibly was about embracing your own weirdness, but deep down it was about family. There are so many people out there struggling with depression and mental illness, either themselves or someone in their family-and in Furiously Happy they will find a member of their tribe offering up an uplifting message (via a taxidermied roadkill raccoon). Furiously Happy appeals to Jenny's core fan base but also transcends it. Jenny’s readings are standing room only, with fans lining up to have Jenny sign their bottles of Xanax or Prozac as often as they are to have her sign their books. And that's what Furiously Happy is all about.' 'I've often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people' also might never understand.

In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:

Furiously happy by jenny lawson