Broken

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety. Having read all her others, this one is a mixed bag and I was tempted to rate it 3 stars. She goes to great lengths to discuss her battle with anxiety and depression, while adding stories of her dysfunctional family and odd adventures in town and abroad. While her depression tends to dampen the humor, its difficult not to like. Chapters range from hilarious to depressing and a few that are just plain dull.

Jenny's books do good by helping others who suffer from mental illness. Jenny writes about being on a book tour and meeting wonderful people who dealt with some of the same issues she had. Many folks shakily told her that it was the first time they'd left their house in weeks. Jenny was proud to be able to talk to each person, though it was VERY draining for HER, because she gets anxious being around people. A difficult conundrum indeed. Broken: In the Best Way Possible is the third collection of comical, every-day-life essays by Jenny Lawson (also known as The Bloggess). Ms. Lawson is one of the few people on this planet willing to share self-deprecating stories, not just for a laugh; but to show those who feel alone that they really aren’t. L’ultimo è ambientato sulla frontiera Texas-Messico. Questa volta il traffico contempla una merce diversa dalla droga: esseri umani. Migranti. Broken is one of those rare books offering something for every crime fiction fan thanks to the way the six novellas in it vary in topic and tone.Some chapters surprised me with anxieties and odd decisions so very similar to mine. Finally, someone else who waffles between answering the door when the mail-carrier requires a signature or just ignoring it and driving to the post office on another day. Hoping to feel up to face-to-face communication in the future. Most children go through stages of refusing to eat lima beans or brussels sprouts, but we drew the line at eating anything we’d watched get a booze enema.”

It isn’t just about Winslow’s past though because we also get a couple of great homages to crime writing legends Elmore Leonard and Raymond Chandler. The San Diego Zoo is dedicated to Leonard and most definitely feels like one of his novels while Sunset is kind of a surfer based remake of Chandler’s The Long Goodbye.BROKEN: SIX SHORT NOVELS, as the title suggests is 6 novellas, all of them excellent. The only one that didn't quite fill the bill for me was the Hawaiian one, but that's most likely because I haven't read the original book in which these characters were featured, (SAVAGES). Not yet, anyway. I also want to ask if they do the scopes at the same time, because if so I would literally be a shish kebab for a few seconds.”

Paradise is a tweener. It follows characters Ben, Chon, and O between the events of the two books in which their story is told. It's told in the same style as well which is fun. It's a damn good story, it's fun. It involves some characters from Bobby Z and Frankie Machine as well. I loved this story, but I feel like this one only works for people who have read The Winter of Frankie Machine. If you haven't, the end of this story--which is really good--would seem kind of out of left field. It makes perfect sense and you see it coming if you've read Machine though (which you should anyway).Las seis novelas cortas son magníficas y, además, nos sorprende dando vida a tantos de sus personajes, tan queridos, protagonizando, sufriendo y emocionando de nuevo. Jenny: Can I just leave a poop emoticon to say sorry for being shitty at words. Editor: The poop image is an "emoji." An emoticon is a typographical display of facial representation using text only. Jenny: Jesus, I can't even use poop correctly. As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. Una buona storia: che sarebbe anche migliore se Winslow evitasse di flirtare col lettore e non si ostinasse a voler fare motti di spirito, che gli vengono così così, non c’è nulla da fare.