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Sometimes We Fly

October 7, 2015 by ModernLove 1 Comment

There are books that make you laugh out loud (or, in my case, bite my lip to try and silence my laughter at work) and there are books that make you cry ears of genuine understanding and relief and thanks that you’re not the only one. Jenny Lawson writes books that do both. And they speak to you. It’s like she’s crawling around my head, listening to my thoughts and spitting them back at me, which is good and bad. It’s good with the hilarious stuff […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson, modernlove, the Bloggess

ModernLove's CBR7 Review No:48 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson, modernlove, the Bloggess ·
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“Benedict Cumberbatch is like Alan Rickman Benjamin Buttoning”

September 29, 2015 by Malin 4 Comments

Back in October 2012, when I finally decided to see what all these Cannonballers were on about when they kept gushing about a strange-looking book with a taxidermied mouse on the cover, and gave in and read Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, I didn’t actually know who the Bloggess was. What a sad and empty place my life was up until that point. Once I actually read her first book, I also went out and bought it in audio book (She sings the chapter titles […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: autobiography, CBR7, Depression, funny, Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson, Malin, mental illness, the Bloggess

Malin's CBR7 Review No:100 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: autobiography, CBR7, Depression, funny, Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson, Malin, mental illness, the Bloggess ·
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