Written by Michelle Porter, a descendant in a long line of Métis storytellers, A Grandmother Begins the Storyfollows five generations of Indigenous women as they reach for the stories to remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook – With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee across Texas from outlaws bent on revenge, even as an unlikely love blossoms.

We didn't have a pool. We did have a rusted trailer that my dad lined with heavy duty hefty bags. So we had a mobile swimming pool, which was cooler than the stationary kind.I now realize nothing is funnier than hearing "VUH-JYE-NUH!" yelled in a raspy voice when you're not expecting it (or the Spanish Inquisition); I asked Victor and he said it was just a pun on “galactic” and I got that because I’m not an idiot, but clearly Vader is decomposing and possessed and it doesn’t seem like something Lucas Arts would approve unless maybe I’d missed this part of the story, but Victor was like, “ I don’t think that grocery store bag is canon” and we agreed to disagree. Likewise, "bonus" chapter titled "Balls" was a delight, and perfectly captures oddball humor and the even odder people around her. She balances the laughs created by her naivate, the ridiculous extrapolation of a situation (think tongue-on-ice and short-shorts) and compassionate (their vengeful Sno-cone fund-raiser).

Jenny lives the sort of life where... well... hmm... maybe you will just have to read this book yourself. Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.” I could not be more different from Jenny Lawson - taxidermied animals scare me, for one thing. Though not as bad as mannequins. not a perfect book, no, but a book i liked enough that i am going to buy the hardcover because this ARC has blurry pictures that you can barely read the funny captions on, and the hardcover has these amaaazing patterned endpapers with pictures of animals on them. i love it. and i am waiting for the second book.The Favorites by Rosemary Hennigan – This book was listed as “dark acadamia” and I thought that meant boarding school horror but turns out it was about the abuse of privilege and power and I liked it even though I kept waiting for the vampires who never showed up.

And that’s how I ended up shoulder-deep in a cow’s vagina, squishing out the semen baster as a bunch of teenage boys looked on. It was the closest I’d ever come to doing porn.Power Mom 50 – Nielson Online". Archived from the original on July 26, 2011 . Retrieved June 29, 2011. Five, for her sake and the sake of the millions living with mental health issues--because don't fool yourself, most people have a fissure that just takes the right experience to break it open--I hope she claims some political power and doesn't just settle for laughs. If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir)? Lawson’s mother was a great believer in the idea that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. She took this to the extreme by bathing her children in radon-poisoned well water. Although Lawson questioned her mother’s logic, she sees now that if she could survive these deadly baths, she can survive anything life throws at her. Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". www.audiopub.org. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016 . Retrieved November 15, 2021.

Long story short? Let's Pretend This Never Happened is everything I never knew I wanted, and I'm especially happy I went with the audio. I can't wait to start Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things.

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Put another way, Jenny Lawson is a very successful blogger. I think the terms have become interchangeable.