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Furiously HappyIn Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson ("the Bloggess") explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny says she does best. O, The Oprah Magazine says "Lawson's self-deprecating humor is not only gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate; it allows her to speak...in a real and raw way." In 2012, she published the wildly popular Let's Pretend This Didn't Happen: A Mostly True Memoir.

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Cry me a river, tardy goblins

You just may be a Halloween hater if: • Seeing your neighbors' houses dripping in orange lights, life-sized scarecrows and inflatable witches, you give in to the pressure and plunk a half-price, festering pumpkin on your front step on Oct. 30. And you deeply resent spending the buck fifty. • Your kids' store-bought, lead-based, choking hazard, 100% artificially-dyed, plastic costumes come with a personalized lecture from David Suzuki. And you don't flinch. • On Halloween nig ...
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Refrigerator door carriesthe story of our lives

If you ever want to find out what's going on in my life on any given day, just look on my refrigerator door. It will tell you everything you want to know about me, my family and even people we don't know. With a single glance, the door tells you who is doing what, where, when and the stages of life of every family member. Forget Facebook, our lives are an open book hanging out for everyone to read on a kitchen appliance. The refrigerator door has become the family bible and scrapbook of c ...
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