--- product_id: 55846579 title: "Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things" brand: "jenny lawson" price: "B/.44" currency: PAB in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.com.pa/products/55846579-furiously-happy-a-funny-book-about-horrible-things store_origin: PA region: Panama --- # Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things **Brand:** jenny lawson **Price:** B/.44 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by jenny lawson - **How much does it cost?** B/.44 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.pa](https://www.desertcart.com.pa/products/55846579-furiously-happy-a-funny-book-about-horrible-things) ## Best For - jenny lawson enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted jenny lawson brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things ## Images ![Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1j5V7Kn53L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Just wonderful *by A***W on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 July 2016* I’m a huge fan of Jenny Lawson’s blog ‘The Bloggess’ which has had me laughing and crying on many occasions. I also adored her first book ‘Let’s Pretend This Never Happened’, so I was so excited to read her second book.Jenny is breathtakingly and beautifully honest about her mental health issues. She has crippling depression and anxiety, and, on top of this, also has to contend with problems with her physical health. As someone with OCD and as the mother of a (now adult) son with generalised anxiety disorder and OCD, I’ve read a lot of books about these issues, but never have I read an author as inspiring, as honest and open and as terribly, horribly funny as Jenny Lawson.This book focuses more on mental illness than the first book, but is no less hilarious for that. Jenny writes about her struggles with disarming honesty, the effects it has had on her life, her career and her family. She clearly adores her family, but they don’t escape her unusual sense of humour. The arguments she has with husband Victor are a highlight of the book, as Jenny often goes off on a tangent that Victor finds increasingly difficult and frustrating to follow. But her love for him and his for her is touchingly shown when she tells him his life would be easier without her.“It might be easier,” he replies. “But it wouldn’t be better.”A brief run through of some of the chapter titles tells you most of what you need to know about this book:‘George Washington’s Dildo’‘LOOK AT THIS GIRAFFE’‘Death by Swans Is Not as Glamorous as You’d Expect’and‘Cat Lamination’are a few of my particular favourites.While the book is very, very funny, it’s also very, very emotional to read, at least it was for me. Jenny’s mental health issues mean that she often can’t function, that she hides in hotel rooms when she’s supposed to be promoting her work, that she often feels like a failure because she can’t cope with the things other mothers seem to excel at, like PTA meetings. But she’s determined that when she feels fine, that when she can face life, that she will really live, that she will be ‘furiously happy’. She understands that there’s a flip side to the extreme emotions that depression brings – that she has the ability to also experience extreme joy, and she’s determined that she will have a storeroom of memories for those dark times, filled with moments‘of tightrope walking, snorkelling in long-forgotten caves, and running barefoot through cemeteries with a red ball gown trailing behind me.’As she says, it’s not just about saving her life, it’s about making her life.Despite great breakthroughs in recent years, mental illness still carries a stigma. But sufferers are no more to blame for their illness than people with cancer, or MS or anything. Jenny’s writing humanises mental illness. She isn’t ashamed, and neither should anyone else be. The epilogue, ‘Deep in the Trenches’ made me cry. It’s the most touching, insightful, compassionate and beautiful piece of writing I’ve ever read about living with mental illness, or helping someone you love to live and to live fully.And I’ll always be grateful for the very clever, but characteristically quirky, ‘spoons’ analogy. I read this part of the book at exactly the right time, and it really helped with a situation where someone I love really didn’t have enough spoons. Read it – you’ll get it, and it might help you too.I love this book, and if I could give it more stars I would. Yes, it’s incredibly funny, but it also says something extremely important. If you have mental health issues, or care for someone who does, please, please read this. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars Came speedily and well packed. *by C***G on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2018* Very funny book, read a quarter of it very quickly, and made me laugh out loud. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Feeling Seen *by C***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2023* This book is incredible. I will be forever grateful for Jenny Lawson for writing it, my friend Vicki for suggesting I read it and for the lunch hours at work I spent reading it. It has made me laugh until tears fall down my cheeks. It's twisted my heart until breathing got difficult. I've heard the lies she talks about her brain telling her. I'm going to buy a physical copy of this book so I can make my parents read it. And perhaps another one so I can annotate it and record the memories, feelings and comfort it brought in the moment. Thank you Jenny. 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