Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

Jenny Lawson, a friend of Brene Brown, aka the Blogess, writes about her life with depression, anxiety, OCD and avoidant personality disorder in a furiously funny manner throughout the book. Her blog is what caught the attention of many it appears but then her first book 'Let's Pretend It Never Happened' became a bestseller and she became a bestselling author. 'Furiously Happy' is her second book. She has written more and doesn't look like she is stopping by the looks of it or by the way her life is going.

Jenny takes us on a wild rollercoaster of her thoughts and her free-flowing life where she does exactly what she pleases in her desire to be furiously happy and she pretty much achieves that while wearing koala costumes or having stuffed animals or many cats at home or several other such things. She definitely appears to be having a better life than most who are stuck up and are not attempting to be happy at all even went they have reason to (me for instance). It's a big lesson I learned from Jenny though, that there could be something to this being happy and furiously happy at that. I cannot attempt to review the book because it is so full of how her mind goes here and there. And then she suddenly makes a poignant point and it all sinks in. But she is so honest, so furiously happy, that many times I wondered if she actually did all those things she said she was doing and she puts a photograph to confirm that she actually did more crazier things than one can even imagine.

I liked her Folder of 24 - about 24 people who were on the verge of committing suicide but didn't because someone who read her blog talked them out of it. 

It was quite by accident that I picked up this book last week from Ranjan and even more that I am finishing it today, which apparently is the World Mental Health Day. Wonderful stuff Jenny Blogess, keep writing, keep inspiring and keep making people laugh. I am also now going into the make-people-laugh mode. No point being stuck up and I will owe it all to Jenny Bloggess.