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