She looked a bit embarrassed, but also pleased and happy to see that a large contingent of her loyal and extremely enthusiastic following had turned out in force, just to see her. The store was so packed that there was a line winding out the door and through the parking lot (PSB had put speakers outside so that those who couldn’t get inside could hear), and when the Town Car with Jenny pulled up and she got out, she was greeted with the kind of cheering and screaming that I hadn’t heard since, well, my last Nine Inch Nails show. For those who don’t mind frequent and enthusiastic profanity, onward!)Ī couple of years later, the followup, Furiously Happy, was released, and Porter Square Books was fortunate enough to be a stop on Jenny’s book tour, so I bought tickets to the reading for myself and my best friend Pauline, so she could come bombing down from upstate NH, and we both could meet our heroine.
(A small word of warning: Jenny swears, a lot, so if that kind of thing bothers you, you should probably stop right here, because she’s not the writer for you. As soon as I finished reading it (which, fortunately, was at home, because people on the T get very nervous seeing a middle-aged woman hysterically laughing so hard that she’s crying, especially when she’s sitting across from them on the Red Line), I immediately jumped online, first to bookmark Jenny’s blog at, and secondly to start messaging all of my most twisted friends and raving, “YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK!!! THIS WOMAN IS A GENIUS!!!” I’ve been following Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess for nearly 10 years, after stumbling across a copy of her first book, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, at Porter Square Books one day.
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