Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, 318 pages

Jenny Lawson, proprietor of TheBlogess.com, weaves an unholy tapestry of her childhood: squirrel puppets, deer pockets, bobcats in the house, bread bag shoes.  She also takes readers on a brief tour of her courtship with her husband, her struggles with domesticity and motherhood, and coping with unstable health. Eventually there's a taxidermied Hamlet mouse in a cape.

​I expected to be entertained by this (mostly true) memoir and I was not disappointed. There's something about Lawson's weirdness and the way she recounts the strange tales of her life thusfar that is raw and peculiar and bizarre and beautiful all at once.

 

Let's Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson

Let's Pretend this Never Happened - Jenny Lawson - 384 pages

Even if your father isn't making you puppets out of half-squirrels in the middle of the night and dropping uncounted ducklings on your children in the living room at more reasonable hours, the stories Lawson shares are so relatable you'll almost agree that it's totally normal to wear koala footie pajamas to meet koalas in Australia.

Funny, tragic, and utterly magical, this romp through the everyday adventures of The Bloggess will make you feel awesome about all the beautiful little quirks that make up your crazy life.