The Book Nook: “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir”

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“Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” cover | Jenny Lawson

We all have life experiences that we’d rather forget, or act like they never existed in the first place, but most people don’t feign ignorance while publishing an entire book on the subject. However, that’s what Jenny Lawson does for a living.

“Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir” is the first book from the now bestselling author and blogger, Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess). Lawson’s book is full of weird stories from throughout her childhood and life in Texas. Lawson brings a sense of humor to deathly embarrassing things (her father is an armadillo racing taxidermist) and situations that would leave you mortified for the rest of your life (such as ended up having to artificially inseminate a cow on a field trip). Her collection of funny and sometimes bizarre stories will leave you in stitches, wondering if perhaps you might have had the same thought before.

Lawson’s stories are an excellent way to wind down and try to de-stress from this insane year. Her writing is engaging; it makes you feel like an old friend is telling you a weird story from their past. Even if memoir is not typically a genre you read, “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” will have you searching for more like it.

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