How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay by Jenny Lawson

I've enjoyed Lawson's books since the first one came out and started reading her blog soon after. She lays bare a lot of her life but this book is a little different. Instead of essays, thes are more like fleeting thoughts. Some are a little sad but most are philosophical and many feel like a warm hug of understanding. 

If you've ever thought that no one in the world can understand you, I think you will find at least one essay that speaks to you. But probably more.

Some of the essays were a little TOO short (which sounds weird), but I could only read this book as chunks at a time. 

Four stars

This book comes out March 31, 2026

ARC kindly provided by Viking Penguin and Netgalley

Opinions are my own

Broken (in the best possible way) Jenny Lawson

 

If you haven't read Jenny Lawson before, you may want to start with her other books but only because they are so amazingly awesome and worth reading as well. This book had me laughing out loud so hard it hurt my throat. It also had me crying. 

Lawson tells stories from her own life that cross topics from her childhood to her marriage to her mental illness. And it is really the last that has garnered her the most attention. She honestly describes her (at times crippling) depression. She doesn't whitewash the pain it has caused her or her family. But she also highlights the hysterical parts of life (the Twitter thread she accidentally started about people's most embarrassing moments makes me feel better about how I people) as well as those parts that are amazingly poignant (her grandmother's dementia.) 

Four and a half stars

This book comes out April 6th

ARC kindly provided by Macmillan and Edelweiss

Opinions are my own