Let's Pretend This Never Happened

7 sound discs (8 hr., 30 min.)

Published April 17, 2012 by Penguin Audio.

ISBN:
978-1-61176-085-9
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Overview: 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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I wish Goodreads let us give books half-stars; 3 stars feels like not enough, and 4 stars feels like way too many. So pretend that I gave this book 3.5 stars.

In short: the start of this book is 4 out of 5, the middle bits are 5 out of 5, and the end is about 3 out of 5.

I'll start with the good things. Once you get used to her, Jenny Lawson is extremely funny. The start of the book kind of feels like she's trying too hard, but as you keep reading, you start to realize it isn't the case; I'm pretty sure that's just who she is in real life.

Surprisingly, Jenny is at her best when writing about more serious issues like friendship, sickness, and the babies she lost. She manages to handle these issues in her trademark style, without getting extraordinarily depressing, or being …