One thing I can always count on Jenny Lawson for is a good laugh! This book was a bit surprising to me as this time she mixed a good laugh with some very real discussions surrounding mental health. I really appreciated her approach in tackling both of these topics together.

One scene from this book that I will always remember is how she is notorious for losing shoes. I would be a liar if I didn't say that this also happens to me often so I felt myself nodding, "yep, me too girl, me too."

I highly recommend listening in via audio as well as Jenny herself reads the book to you.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Henry Holt & Company for allowing me to read a copy of this book!

Jenny Lawson writes about a lot of things in her latest release. Such as:

Holes in her brain
Fucked up feet
Dog’s vagina
Getting stuck
Non sequiturs
Truisms
Insurance
Convos with Victor and Lisa and Hailey
Being an introvert
Doctors and dentists
Pets
Marriage
Vagina lasers
Cooking and cleaning
Buttons
Bags of dicks
Pets (but sadly none of the undead variety)

And depression/anxiety/mental illness. I appreciate that Lawson has become a spokesperson of sorts for subject matter that has been NOT discussed openly pretty much ever, but I am here for the funny. I battle my own inner demons on the regular so I pick up books like this as an escape. It doesn’t help that Lawson comes off as a real one percenter sometimes either. Being able to afford treatment at all is a luxury for many. Feeling better enough to tackle a trip to Europe is nothing but a dream for most - financially if not emotionally. While Lawson still comes off very authentic, unfortunately she’s not always very relatable. I think maybe I need an entire book filled with mortifying moments. Here's one of my own …

I’m going to go ahead and tell y’all a little story about how I came to find @thebloggess because we are obviously kindred spirits with our affinity for dead critters and also because my favorite part of this latest release was hands down the public shaming of ourselves on the interwebs. Okay so about a billion and a half years ago this really not newfangled invention known as the interwebs was finally rolled out for staff at the company I worked for. While it was given to us in order to conduct any legal research that may have been requested, obviously we did not use it for work at all. I got the bright idea to do look for some sportsball paraphernalia that the children needed and typed in what any normal sporting goods store patron in the Midwest would – “dicks.com.” Now as I mentioned above, this World Wide Web was a new thang for our law firm and therefore no firewalls had been implemented. Spam blockers weren’t being utilized either. So when I say I absolutely DID NOT get the correct Dicks – I mean to tell you I. ABSOLUTELY. DID. NOT. and thanks to zero dollars having been spent on reducing pop-up advertising I did not get one site containing the wrong dicks, I got about 147 of them simultaneously. And then I couldn’t figure out how to turn down the sound because speakers had literally never been necessary in the history of ever before that moment. Oh and I worked directly across from Human Resources. #employeeoftheyear

Mitchell says I need to stop being such a crybaby bitch and most people probably can’t relate to collecting dead shit and yet somehow I do so I should STFU and give this 5 Stars. That Mitchell, always a helper.

ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you, NetGalley!

I love Jenny Lawson's books and this was no exception. She brings humor and a voice to mental health that people need to hear. She makes you want to be her friend and just hang out thru all her good times and bad. Plus there is almost always 1 story that makes you say, oh yeah! that happened to me too!!

I love Jenny Lawson so much and I can't say enough good things about her writing. She somehow manages to be actually-laugh-out-loud funny one moment and real-tears-crying the next. She gets it. The pieces that stick most in my memory a few months after reading this collection are her story about all the different times and ways she has lost a single shoe (I cackled), and her open letter to her insurance company (I raged). If you have mental and/or chronic illness, you will likely feel very seen. I highly, highly recommend this book, along with Lawson's previous two, if you haven't read them: Let's Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy.

I’ve been familiar with Jenny (aka The Bloggess) since WAY back in the day… I think we were in the 20-Something Bloggers group together? As with any book of essays, some are laugh-out-loud funny, some are poignant, some aren’t particularly memorable. I enjoyed the mix of off-the-wall stories and more serious ones, like her experience getting a magnetic brain stimulation treatment for depression. Reading a few of her blog posts should give you a good idea of if you’ll enjoy the book or not, since it’s basically the same writing style.

Jenny Lawson is back at her absurd antics in Broken. This time around she opens the curtain a bit more on her brokenness, the depths of her depression and anxiety and her everyday struggles to control them including imaginary fights with insurance companies, experimental brain treatments, and the waxing/waning nature of recovery. You'll cringe, you'll feel intense empathy, you'll awkwardly guffaw, and under it all, you'll feel an intense empathy and you'll be thankful that neither you nor Lawson is alone in the struggle.

Another fantastic title from the amazing Jenny Lawson. Same sardonic wit, clever turn of phrases and bitingly kind insights into the human experience.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this book. All opinions are my own.
Recommended for fans of David Sedaris.
Jenny Lawson is well known to be hilarious. Her personal life includes wild occurances on a regular basis that would put the rest of us on hospital bed rest for exhaustion. Highly recommended for anyone looking for solidarity with their mental health struggles, or who have a strong interest in taxidermied animals.

Another perfect book by Jenny! I think she is such a fun person and her worting is simply en pointe! I will be gifting this one to my friends!

I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Thank you NetGalley!

I love the cover art and coloring!

The book is well-written. Jenny Lawson has a great talent with words, that's for sure. She's able to put a humerous spin on difficult topics.

I'd definitely recommend this to my friends.

Jenny Lawson has the wonderful talent of being able to talk about mental and physical struggles with refreshing humor. It didn't always work for me, but that's okay! It's nice to see another woman, who is an introvert, speak her story.

I also really enjoyed the story about the cover art!

If you are familiar with The Bloggess (Jenny Lawson’s online presence), you know what to expect with her book “Broken (in the best possible way).”

Shenanigans, crazy situations, lots of humor, a fun outlook on life, and the hilarious way she says “Victor” at the end of a sentence.

You also get a large dose of kindness from Lawson. She talks about her physical and mental health in such a vulnerable, authentic way, that I see how it goes toward helping to banish the stigma that is associated with mental health, wellness and chronic illness.

Reading and/or listening to Lawson’s books is like listening to a friend during a really great gab session. She is a champion of waving your freak flag high and loving one’s self, even though it’s hard to sometimes.

Her heart and compassion really shines through in this book. Five stars. I believe this book will help people and that’s beautiful.

Did I cry when I received this book? Yes, yes I did. Did I then cry again once I started reading it? Yes, yes I did.

Jenny Lawson is such an important author for me. In reading her books and stories, I find pieces of myself that I've never been able to quite vocalize to those around me. The way she describes her brain and processing of events and ideas and thoughts just hits me right in the heart and funny bone.

Broken was no exception to this. I read and highlighted and tried to stifle my laughter while my husband slept besides me as I read it.

My favs are "Awkwarding Brings Us Together", "All the Reasons I'm Not Coming to Your Party", and "No One Wnats Your Handwritten 'Good for One Free Massage' Coupons, Darryl".
and the ones I felt most in my anxious heart are "Rainbow Fire", and "Anxiety Is a Lost Watch I Never Saw".

I so appreciate that Jenny allows us into her battle with her insurance company and trying TMS treatments.

I love Jenny Lawson and was excited for this book. Her others seemed much more playful and maybe dramatic. This one, I would consider much darker and I had to step away from it a few times for my own very anxious/depressive self. But, I still loved it and recommended it to others because of how realistic it was to how battles with mental illness can be.

Jenny is an author where every book she writes I will listen! (I will be a hearer of her words in my ear holes and my mind will piece all those words together in a way that will alight my face and eyes so that others driving next to me will wonder why I am so happy or wiping away tears from laughing so very hard.) I appreciate her so very much for being a wonderful advocate for mental health and sharing her experiences with all issues dealing with insurance and that headache. She brings me such joy so every book will be an automatic much enjoy as soon as possible!

Jenny Lawson is back with a new collection of stories to tell everyone.

If you've read Jenny before and liked her style, you'll love this one as well. Jenny is a solid, if a little off the wall, storyteller, and I always have fun coming along for the ride. My only suggestion to people who maybe can't get into her writing style--get the audiobook. For me, audio is her medium.

Jenny Lawson has done it again. Just like in her book Furiously Happy, Lawson talks openly about her quirks and her mental illnesses in a way that people can easily relate.

When I read/listen to her books I no longer feel ashamed or disappointed in my self as I did before reading her books. She talks about the silly things that she does to keep herself happy and how its okay to acknowledge your feelings whether it be anxiety or depression or really anything.

I hope she continues to write books like these because I will happily read them all.

Laugh out Loud funny and heartbreaking at the same time, Jenny Lawson has done it again with Broken (in the best possible way) I was laughing, with tears rolling down my face and my kids came in and asked what was going on so we read aloud from Jenny's book and all had the best evening of our entire quarantine. Thank you Ms. Lawson for continuing to be so real and raw and amazing and hilarious.

Jenny Lawson does it again. Her look at her less than perfect life with the honesty and authenticity that is often missing in memoirs makes this a must read. The way she describes her struggles while leaning on her sense of humor helps the reader better understand mental illness and the toll it takes not just on the individual, but the family of those individuals as well. This unflinching look at her life was a great read.

I was provided an advanced copy of this book by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is the third book of essays by Jenny Lawson, and if you enjoyed the first two, this one follows the same feel.

She writes about her experience with mental illness with a sense of incomparable humor that makes you feel like you could instantly be best friends if you were just given a chance. She writes as if someone gave her notes about all of the secrets and insecurities about yourself that you don't tell anyone, and she does it endearingly.

Mostly, she writes so you don't feel so alone. I can't recommend any of her books highly enough.