Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

19 reviews

libreroaming's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Alcohol

booksoversecondbreakfast's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

An amazing, beautiful, weird book. So encouraging and funny. Filled with so much wisdom and relatable reflections of mental illness all interspersed chaotically between hilarious and weird anecdotes, and yet it's done so gracefully and meaningfully. I love this book so much and bought a copy for myself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Drug use, Blood, Antisemitism, Cannibalism, Stalking, and Alcohol

asienerbrown's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Animal death and Body shaming

julieb3a's review against another edition

1.5

Her writing sounds like my 8th grade stream of consciousness. Maybe I would have liked it more if I didn’t do the audiobook. Laughed twice, but most of the time it was a no for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Self harm

madmadmaddymad's review against another edition

dark funny reflective slow-paced

5.0

A wacky and absurd book about suffering from depression.

My favorite part was the story about digging for her keys in the garbage can at the zoo, and then not knowing what she threw away when her husband came and told her he had her keys. Also, the story about visiting Australia. Easily the most chaotic road trip I’ve ever been on (and I wasn’t even there) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death

perytonne's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Chronic illness, and Cursing

kiwichill's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

The audiobook adds to the experience of reading this book as Jenny narrates it herself.  As someone who also suffers anxiety and depression,  and chronic health issues,  I found her book very relatable.   I laughed till I cried several times 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Blood, Excrement, Cannibalism, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

jordan_noel's review against another edition

dark funny reflective fast-paced

4.5

Furiously Happy is open and honest, hilarious and relatable. It’s about acknowledging when you can do nothing but simply exist and furiously celebrating when you can do more. I loved her shameless explanations of how she finds ways to make her life better and her use of sarcasm and confidence to fight off social pressures. Overall, I just had a very fun, very emotional time with this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Cursing and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

jordynkw's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

guinness74's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

5.0

As someone who is NEVER furiously happy and is ALWAYS mentally ill (diagnosed and medicated, y’all) there is so much truth in this book. Lawson writes without fear and the results are terrific, in most senses of that word. I identify with Jenny, I commiserate with Victor, and I hope my kids will grow up to be like Hailey. It’s exceedingly difficult to proudly broadcast one’s mental illness, and yet I find it more and more in the most unlikely places: bestselling authors (Lawson), comediennes (Taylor Tomlinson) and probably places I’ve forgotten, but the stigma is slowly eroding and the world is becoming a place that is still scary, but we can cope…usually. Anyway, even if you’re not mentally ill, or you think you might be, this book will be for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Self harm

Minor: Animal death and Suicidal thoughts