by Danielle Christopher

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir)

By Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess)

This is not going to be a long book review.

Known for either her dry wit on Twitter or her popular blog (TheBloggess.com) Jenny has made many readers laugh. This mostly-true memoir is a disturbingly dark yet funny book that she dares to say out loud about life askewed.  She does not hold anything back, except material for the second book.

When she tells people that her father is a lunatic, a lot of people can relate. Although Jenny’s  father runs a taxidermy business out of their home and has bobcats for pets, she doesn’t consider it a weird childhood.

Pages are filled with childhood moments peppered with pictures.  She scribes the moment she met the illusive Victor, through their courtship, to a conversation about GPS, to becoming parents.

The footnotes are almost as hilarious as the stories themselves. I do not want to give out any more stories from this book that originally began on her blog.  It is a fantastically funny memoir about coming of age.

Once you start reading this book, you will find it impossible to put down. When you finish,  it will leave you wanting to call your parents to apologize for your teenagehood.

Danielle Christopher is a stay-at-home mom of two daughters and a freelance writer.   Her teen story is in the collection “Parent/Teen Stories: Without Judgement”.  She lives with her husband of seventeen years and her girls in Langley, B.C..   Follow her on Twitter.