Pre-Owned Let's Pretend This Never Happened : A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover) 9780399159015

from LauraBrook

I really liked this book. I've been reading her blog (thebloggess.com) for years, and while she's warped and crazy and curses like a sailor, she's also honest and funny and heartwarming and sincere - she's totally her own person. Reading the book helped me to understand her life (her stories of g...

from arielfl

The book started out very strong for me. Having grown up in the 70's and being about the same age as Lawson there was a lot I found funny or could outright identify with. The story of Jenkins, the homicidal turkey was so funny that I had to read it out loud to my daughter. I could relate to Jenny...

from beserene

This memoir is the product of The Bloggess. If you have never read her blog, you really should. If you have read her blog, you will find this book to be exactly like it, only book-shaped. The same random, stream-of-consciousness hilarity, the same chaotic leaps from topic to topic, the same cheek...

from mirrani

I loved this book so much that I ended up reading parts of it to everyone who would listen to it, just so that we could laugh together until we cried. It is just so very well done that there simply aren't any words to explain just how entertaining this read is. I can guarantee that you will laugh...

from lovestampmom

The poise is a 3, but her style is definitely higher. She's one of the funniest persons I've read and Imlaughed out loud so many times in the beginning 1/2 of the book. However, her style gets old after a while and the later chapters feel overly manufactured.