Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir - Hardcover

Lawson, Jenny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399159010 ISBN 13: 9780399159015

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2012

Synopsis

For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.

Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York Times bestseller, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. Chapters include: “Stanley the Magical, Talking Squirrel”; “A Series of Angry Post-It Notes to My Husband”; “My Vagina Is Fine. Thanks for Asking”; “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane.” Pictures with captions (no one would believe these things without proof) accompany the text.

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Review:

"There's something wrong with Jenny Lawson-magnificently wrong. I defy you to read her work and not hurt yourself laughing."
-Jen Lancaster

"The Bloggess writes stuff that actually is laugh-out-loud, but you know that really you shouldn't be laughing and probably you'll go to hell for laughing, so maybe you shouldn't read it. That would be safer and wiser."
-Neil Gaiman

"Jenny Lawson is hilarious, snarky, witty, totally inappropriate, and 'Like Mother Teresa, Only Better.'"
-"Marie Claire" magazine

"Jenny Lawson's writing is nothing less than revolutionary. . . . I say this without a hint of exaggeration: She may be one of the most progressive women's voices of our time."
-Karen Walrond, author of "The Beauty of Different"

"Jenny Lawson is hilarious, snarky, witty, totally inappropriate, and 'Like Mother Teresa, Only Better.'" --"Marie Claire" magazine

"Jenny Lawson's writing is nothing less than revolutionary. . . . I say this without a hint of exaggeration: She may be one of the most progressive women's voices of our time." --Karen Walrond, author of "The Beauty of Different"

"The Bloggess writes stuff that actually is laugh-out-loud, but you know that really you shouldn't be laughing and probably you'll go to hell for laughing, so maybe you shouldn't read it. That would be safer and wiser." --Neil Gaiman

"There's something wrong with Jenny Lawson--magnificently wrong. I defy you to read her work and not hurt yourself laughing." --Jen Lancaster

"Even when I was funny, I wasn''t this funny." --Augusten Burroughs, author of "Running With Scissors" and "This is How"

"There's something wrong with Jenny Lawson--magnificently wrong. I defy you to read her work and not hurt yourself laughing." --Jen Lancaster
"Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny." --Augusten Burroughs, author of "Running With Scissors" and "This is How"

"There's something wrong with Jenny Lawson--magnificently wrong. I defy you to read her work and not hurt yourself laughing." --Jen Lancaster
"Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny."--Augusten Burroughs, author of "Running with Scissors" and "This Is How"

"Lawson's self-deprecating humor is not only gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate; it allows her to speak...in a real and raw way."--"O, The Oprah Magazine "

"Fucked up in the best possible way. Adorably offensive."--Jesus*

"Jenny Lawson is hilarious, snarky, witty, totally inappropriate, and 'Like Mother Teresa, Only Better.'"--"Marie Claire"

"[Lawson] writes with a rambling irreverence that makes you wish she were your best friend."--"Entertainment Weekly
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"The funniest memoir ever about a talking squirrel, anxiety disorder, couch etiquette, and more. Believe us, Lawson is hilarious." --"Ladies' Home Journal "

"GET READY. Jenny has such a disturbing, ill-mannered, rich sense of humor you will wonder, 'Am I the sick one for laughing?' Everyone I gave the book to confirmed: We must all be sick, because this book IS HYSTERICAL...and yet it was also strangely touching at times. It's one of my favorite books in the past five years."--Kathryn Stockett, # 1 "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Help"

"Funny, raunchy, and unexpectedly uplifting..."Let's Pretend "will leave you hoping that Lawson's next book happens and soon."--"People "

"Take one part David Sedaris and two parts Chelsea Handler and you'll have some inkling of the cockeyed humor of Jenny Lawson...[She] flaunts the sort of fearless comedic chops that will make you spurt Diet Coke through your nose."--"Parade"

*Jesus is the author's hairdresser. You can tell him apart from that other Jesus because they pronounce their names differently.

"Really funny."--Reese Witherspoon

"Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny."--Augusten Burroughs, author of "Running with Scissors" and "This Is How"

"Lawson's self-deprecating humor is not only gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate; it allows her to speak...in a real and raw way."--"O, The Oprah Magazine "

"Fucked up in the best possible way. Adorably offensive."--Jesus*

"Jenny Lawson is hilarious, snarky, witty, totally inappropriate, and 'Like Mother Teresa, Only Better.'"--"Marie Claire"

"[Lawson] writes with a rambling irreverence that makes you wish she were your best friend."--"Entertainment Weekly"

"The funniest memoir ever about a talking squirrel, anxiety disorder, couch etiquette, and more. Believe us, Lawson is hilarious." --"Ladies' Home Journal "

"GET READY. Jenny has such a disturbing, ill-mannered, rich sense of humor you will wonder, 'Am I the sick one for laughing?' Everyone I gave the book to confirmed: We must all be sick, because this book IS HYSTERICAL...and yet it was also strangely touching at times. It's one of my favorite books in the past five years."--Kathryn Stockett, # 1 "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Help"

"Funny, raunchy, and unexpectedly uplifting..."Let's Pretend "will leave you hoping that Lawson's next book happens and soon."--"People "

"Take one part David Sedaris and two parts Chelsea Handler and you'll have some inkling of the cockeyed humor of Jenny Lawson...[She] flaunts the sort of fearless comedic chops that will make you spurt Diet Coke through your nose."--"Parade"

*Jesus is the author's hairdresser. You can tell him apart from that other Jesus because they pronounce their names differently.

"Really funny."--Reese Witherspoon
"Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny."--Augusten Burroughs, author of "Running with Scissors" and "This Is How"
"Lawson's self-deprecating humor is not only gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate; it allows her to speak...in a real and raw way."--"O, The Oprah Magazine "
"Fucked up in the best possible way. Adorably offensive."--Jesus*
"Jenny Lawson is hilarious, snarky, witty, totally inappropriate, and 'Like Mother Teresa, Only Better.'"--"Marie Claire"
"[Lawson] writes with a rambling irreverence that makes you wish she were your best friend."--"Entertainment Weekly"
"The funniest memoir ever about a talking squirrel, anxiety disorder, couch etiquette, and more. Believe us, Lawson is hilarious." --"Ladies' Home Journal "
"GET READY. Jenny has such a disturbing, ill-mannered, rich sense of humor you will wonder, 'Am I the sick one for laughing?' Everyone I gave the book to confirmed: We must all be sick, because this book IS HYSTERICAL...and yet it was also strangely touching at times. It's one of my favorite books in the past five years."--Kathryn Stockett, # 1 "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Help"
"Funny, raunchy, and unexpectedly uplifting..."Let's Pretend "will leave you hoping that Lawson's next book happens and soon."--"People "
"Take one part David Sedaris and two parts Chelsea Handler and you'll have some inkling of the cockeyed humor of Jenny Lawson...[She] flaunts the sort of fearless comedic chops that will make you spurt Diet Coke through your nose."--"Parade"
*Jesus is the author's hairdresser. You can tell him apart from that other Jesus because they pronounce their names differently.

Book Description:

The hysterically funny and mostly true memoir from Internet sensation Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0399159010
• ISBN 13: 9780399159015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318