Anyone who hasn’t read anything from The Bloggess is truly missing out. She is one of the funniest bloggers in the blogosphere.
The Bloggess is actually a woman named Jenny Lawson. She recently had a book published, a memoir of sorts, that I just finished reading. One of the funniest books I have read… ever… and I highly recommend it.
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
I’m not much of a book reviewer, so I’m just gonna tell you what I liked (and didn’t like) about the book. I like Jenny. She’s freaking nuts… literally. She has some phobias that seem so “out there” that it is easy to laugh along with her and her story. Her upbringing made her unique, and contributed to her being absolutely insane. I actually laughed out loud while reading this. It’s always nice to be able to laugh at someone with deeper issues than the ones roaming the inside of your head, isn’t it? Well, that is, until you realize that your own phobias and issues might be a little different than Jenny’s, but are they really any less bizarre? Of course they aren’t! We’re all freaking nuts; Jenny just captures it better with words than most of us can.
I’m going to be honest, I bought Jenny’s book because, in the furthest recesses of my mind, I have hoped that this little blog of mine will somehow turn into an actual career writing for a living… somehow. I don’t know how, but somehow. And here is one of my favorite bloggers, and she has done it. She has reached a pinnacle that I think many people who blog hope to obtain.
I bought Jenny’s book to support a fellow blogger. There seems to be a community, a sense of fellowship, amongst bloggers. Of course, this is another community that I don’t quite fit in with. In fact, I don’t even know how one gets to that community. There are all kinds of bloggers who recommend each other and comment on each other’s blogs. I have commented on several, and I have never had that action reciprocated. So, I just keep doing my thing… you know, bitching and whatnot…
Jenny, in her book, writes of her circle of blogging friends. She writes about rich women, and how she thought that she would never be able to fit in with them… and how she ends up kind of fitting in with them. That was one part of the book I didn’t care for. I, too, hate the rich… but I don’t imagine finding myself on a golf course with a bunch of doctors or lawyers having a gay old time. That, in my mind, would be… uh… gay?
After reading Jenny’s book, I decided that I should maybe try to follow her style a little. I feel like she has a very similar sense of humor to mine, she’s just a hell of a lot funnier. And she writes “f**k” a lot… and “vagina”. Maybe I’d be funnier if I wrote “f**k” and “vagina” more — or at all.
Anyway, you should really check out her book
I would love to support fellow bloggers, except Im not a blogger. However, I would still like to read the book, so why not just send it my way?
Well, I can’t access the Bloggess’s website due to it being blocked (work), but I was able to read an excerpt from the book on Amazon & laughed so hard I cried within one minute! I won’t spend any money on it, but if you send it to Lee, he can let me read it & I’ll get it back to you next time I come for a visit (in a few years)! OR I could see if my local library has it. I will have to read it quickly & mentally skip over all the f*** words. Oh, BTW, please leave the vagina word to people who actually have them, otherwise it’s just wrong (smells like vagina?!).
I will send the book. Books are precious to me, so I hope it is well taken care of and returns in the same condition as which it is when it is sent… or something. You know what I mean. I’ll send it to Lee and he can then share it with Judy.
I know, after I wrote that, I realized why I never use the word “vagina”. I was going to write that it “looks like a vagina”, but I didn’t think that would be appropriate. Then “feels” and “tastes” popped into my head, but I knew I was getting way out of line, so I stuck with the least pornographic sense (“sounds like vagina” doesn’t even make sense).
Hey, thanks. I look forward to recieving it. And dont worry, If I mess it up, I will then buy you a new one. Not for the purpose of suppoting a blogger, just the simple fact that if somebody loans me something I will stand behind the unspoken rules of loanage (loanage?) which require the loany to return the item in original condition or better and in the case of books (hard to return them in better condition) just buy a new one. However, the fact that Judy will have the book after me, and be in charge of returning it, things may get complicated. Not to say that my sis is absentminded and very capable of misplacing certain items (keys, cell phones, purse, and possibly BOOKS, etc, etc) but more that females in general seem to loose track of nonessential (and sometimes essential) items. In any case, I will replace the book in any event of damage or loss, be it from I or my sibling. Just one quick question for all you readers out there. Is a comment on a blog site legally binding? And if so, do you know any good lawyers?
Lee, it’s a first edition, which means it could very improbably be worth a quadrillion dollars some day. Just sayin’…
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