I’m throwing my hands up, wondering just why a professional writer would blather on like this. She starts slow and then builds toward most of her best material, leaving me smiling as the book concludes.īut let’s go back to the material at the start, which I find to be random in a way that yearns for the hand of a high profile editor. In contrast, the earliest part of this memoir is good, but it’s not great. The trend is to make the first three chapters-most likely what sells the book-sterling, and then fill the rest with mediocre, highly missable prose. Lawson bucks a somewhat disquieting trend, and I am so glad. My thanks go to Net Galley and Henry Holt for the review copy. Jenny Lawson, AKA The Bloggess, has a new book out, and I do believe it’s my favorite.
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