Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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Audie Award, Humor, 2016

In Furiously Happy, number-one New York Times best-selling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.

But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.

As Jenny says:

"Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he's never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos.

"Most of my favorite people are dangerously f--ked-up but you'd never guess because we've learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new normal. Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, 'We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.' Except go back and cross out the word 'hiding.'"

Furiously Happy is about "taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they're the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. It's the difference between 'surviving life' and 'living life'. It's the difference between 'taking a shower' and 'teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair'. It's the difference between being 'sane' and being 'furiously happy.'"

Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. This is a book about embracing everything that makes us who we are - the beautiful and the flawed - and then using it to find joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Because as Jenny's mom says, "Maybe 'crazy' isn't so bad after all." Sometimes crazy is just right.

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Jenny Lawson
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Jenny Lawson
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September 22, 2015
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Macmillan Audio
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Listening Length	8 hours and 28 minutes
Author	Jenny Lawson
Narrator	Jenny Lawson
Audible.com Release Date	September 22, 2015
Publisher	Macmillan Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00VAVPQKC
Best Sellers Rank	#4,380 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #12 in Mood Disorders (Audible Books & Originals) #18 in Anxiety Disorders (Audible Books & Originals) #30 in Depression (Books)

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MountainMama

Pointless Flight of Ideas.

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2018

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Ever get stuck in a conversation with someone that thinks they're hilarious and original but really they're just immature and likely exaggerating every tale they tell? And you can't get a word in between their ramblings to end the conversation? and they're incapable of reading your body language and are oblivious to how uncomfortable you are?

If you'd pay for that experience then this book is for you. Otherwise save your money.

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Angela Leck

This book changed my life.

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2019

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Do your self a favor and read this book.
All I can really say is this book changed the way I view my mental health. Jenny is the most down to earth writer I have ever read. I have the book through Audibles and she narrates it. Listening to it, you feel like you are listening to your friend telling you hysterical stories that you know you are not alone and that it is totally okay to laugh at the crazy that is your life. Not to mention, when I went to see her on her book tour she could not have been nicer. I tried super hard not to geek out, but I failed. Not to mention my 18 month old son pulled her hair which was mortifying but she laughed and I relaxed and eventually laughed as well. She signed my books and then topped it all off by signing my Rory pillow that my husband had given me to take to the hospital when I receive chemo.
There is no praise high enough for Jenny and this book.
Read it. You will be a better person once you do.

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Theresa G

Best read in years

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2016

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I loved this book. I'm not one who readily laughs out loud, but this had me giggling helplessly. Not once or twice, but a LOT. And I'm mentally ill, too, so this book was a wonderful vacation for me from having to deal with stuff I don't have enough spoons for. I never encountered anyone who thinks in tangential, progressively absurd streams of consciousness before, JUST LIME ME!!

And I need to respond to reviews that were bitchy about the author's "luxury" of not being able to get out of bed, and what was perceived as name-dropping: Mental illness is not all created equal. I only say that because my FIRST impulse was to scold those idiots for judging a sick person by well-person rules, but then I thought that was mean. Maybe they are just less unwell. Personally, I've had days when I couldn't leave my cocoon, and there's nothing luxurious about it. It's hell. And hey, wow, a famous person knows some other famous people, who were so cool they helped her! That's name-dropping?

Maybe if you're healthy, or if you're in denial, or you're just a judgmental boob, this book won't be funny or work at all for you. I feel sorry for you, because Jenny (I feel like we're on a first-name basis now), is a kick-ass, genuine, smart, hilarious survivor you'd be blessed by if you had any sense.

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K. Robinson

Truly Awful.

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2018

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Save your money. The author tries desperately to be funny and falls short about 98% of the time. Her insistence that “crazy is cute” is at best annoying, and at worst really very offensive to all the people who don’t get to make fun of their mental illnesses. We chose this book for book club and every person, to the person, hated it.

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erin Brumbley

best. book. ever.

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2016

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CAUTION - do not read this on an airplane when people are trying to sleep around you. do not drink water while reading. you will laugh out loud and wake people up and/or (probably both) spit out your water onto your kindle! happened to me. just a warning!

Jenny Lawson's second book does not disappoint. If you are a fan of funny things, or if you have suffered from mental illnesses (or know someone who does) this will hit you in all the right places. it will tickle your funnybone, and at times it might make you tear up. i had quite a range of emotions just in the first few chapters. in fact, i haven't even finished it yet but i am confident that it deserves more than 5 stars. i am going to write a note to Amazon, picketing for more than 5 stars! - this is at least 6 stars worth of funny!!!!

you do not need to read Jenny's first book to jump into this one, in case you were wondering, however, i strongly suggest reading it to get a lot of references that she discusses and to get a better background on her family and upbringing. it will give you the back story on Beyonce the chicken, and also taxidermy. you may even want to head over to her blog (thebloggess.com) for a little taste of her humor and insight.

i also suggest to read the entire book including the preface and such that you might normally skip over. this book is great, and i cannot wait for her next one!!!! i also suggest getting the hard copy over kindle because i am a little mad that i don't have the cute Rory cover to look at!

PS- tip- when Jenny travels to do book signings and such, she often stops in the airport bookstores and signs copies! follow her on instagram to see where she is doing mystery signings to get yourself a backup copy!

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Not Organized But I loved It!

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2022

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I have ADHD and Depressiosn like Jenny Lawson and I see myself in her book. The big difference is that I am only 5% snarky. The author is I have to hold my stomach while I roar loud. This book is a little more difficulat to follow but I love that she has come to many of the same conclusions that I did. If you feel really bad and want to stop your life, you have to remember that life will not stay the way that is now, it will definitely get better in the future. And you need to do things that make you happy, I read books, maybe too many but I always checked out enough books at the library when I was younger that I could bearly carry all of them. I have to have one 12 ounce diet coke every day or I will feel deprived.

Jenny Lawson writes notes to herself when she wakes up in the middle of the night. Wse both have terrible insomnia. At two a.m., she thought that they were brillant when she wrote them. But she finds out later that they were not. I gave up on writing down my wonderful thoughts because I cannot figure out what I wrote later.

I enjoyed her sleep study experience, I have had five of them and hated them so much that I never did aother one. I enjoyed her trip to Austraila and decided to never to go there but I might have a similiar experience.

The author gives all of us the knowledge that someone else besides us has ADHD and Depression and that is the healing property of this book.

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littlebookworm78

Funny but lacking structure...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2019

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I discovered Jenny Lawson through her blog ‘The Bloggess’ and was instantly drawn to her wit and humour in the face of A LOT of adversity. Jenny suffers with a myriad of mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, panic attacks and self-harm, as well as physical illnesses and chronic pain, but through all this she still manages to find the humour in situations others would find incapacitating.

‘Furiously Happy’ was born from one such incident, where everything in the universe seemed to be stacked against her. But instead of giving up and giving in, Jenny made the bold (and some might say foolish) decision to face it head-on by being ‘furiously happy, out of sheer spite’. Within hours #FURIOUSLYHAPPY was trending worldwide on Twitter as people chose to join Jenny and fight to take back their lives from the black dog of depression.

This is the point at which the book starts. However, if you’re expecting some kind of a self-help guide or memoir about Jenny’s life after the movement took hold, you’ll be disappointed. It’s less of a memoir and more a collection of essays, composed of disconnected occurrences and encounters which seem to have been lifted directly from Lawson’s blog and then expanded upon for the purposes of the book.

That’s not to say ‘Furiously Happy’ isn’t good, it’s just a bit… random. There’s anecdotes from Jenny’s everyday life, tales of trips she goes on despite feeling crippled by social anxiety, conversations with her husband (who is patient to a fault, incredibly understanding and VERY funny) and many, many stories involving her pets. It’s just not a memoir, at least not in the traditional sense and sometimes that makes it difficult to read, mainly because you’re never quite sure what’s coming next or what tone the next chapter should be read in.

If you’ve ever experienced crippling anxiety and/or depression, or know someone who has/is, then there are certainly chapters of this book which will resonate. The same goes with anyone suffering with a chronic physical illness. That said, there are also some parts which might leave you scratching your head in confusion and wondering whether Lawson has made them up or exaggerated for comedic effect. It’s definitely worth a read, but don’t expect to come away with any insightful revelations or self-help tips, just a smile or two along the way.

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LJBentley

Funny

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2020

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In Jenny Lawson’s book, Furiously Happy we learn about daily struggle with her mental health. This kind of subject is hardly new but what is refreshing is Lawson’s unashamedness about her condition. There is so much negativity surrounding the discussion of mental health that here Lawson is saying ‘hello, look at me and my stonking issues’ and I personally feel we need more literature like this.

Furiously Happy helps to take away the stigma and the sting of mental health and provides a fresh perspective on mental health and how personal acceptance can be very helpful. Besides being really enlightening, Furiously Happy is just damn funny. The situations that Lawson finds herself in had me chuckling aloud and getting some funny looks because I couldn’t keep the laughter inside.

A very funny look at a very serious subject.

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson is available now.

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AlisonW

Just wonderful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2016

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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 people found this helpful

Bubster

Funniest book of the century!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2017

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I think Jenny Lawson writes the funniest books I've ever read! I follow her Blog on Facebook and she has me falling about with laughter.
Without giving too much away, she has a very warped sense of humour, she speaks her mind and holds nothing back. She has highs and lows, but even at her lowest ebb, she is hilarious. I laughed until I cried, then when I read parts out loud to my husband, he fell about laughing too!
Once you have read her books, you will be a loyal follower of hers on Facebook and Twitter, I can't recommend this book enough, she the funniest author of the century! I adore her!

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Nettlefairy

Silly book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2021

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This book is less about mental health and more about the author herself, conversations with her husband, jokes with friends, trips she’s been on, moving house.. basically just all about her and how funny she thinks she is. I find it rather silly!

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