This week's book:
I Choose Darkness
By Jenny Lawson
This week's blog is an essay instead of an actual book, but it deserves a blog post. I love Jenny Lawson so much. She finds humor at times that could crumble others. I have written about some of Lawson's other books so if you aren't familiar with her work, please check them out because they are amazing.
Jenny Lawson suffers from a plethora of mental and physical health issues, which has lead to a wicked sense of humor. I was able to meet her via a Zoom chat with a book group I'm in. She is hilarious and everything you would hope she is.
In this essay, Lawson explains that her house is filled with odd dead animals that have been stuffed and positioned into weird poses and wearing weird clothes. Her office is also filled with creepy dolls and other odd things. This whole essay is about how amazing Halloween is. Lawson's portrait of what being a kid in the 1980's while enjoying the best holiday of the year is so dead on. Everything from the weird plastic costumes (which my mom only did once the year I was born, six days before Halloween and she was too tired to make my sister a costume), or how everyone was terrified of the mythical satanic worshiper that would be roaming the streets filling your candy with razor blades.
This quick read is just what I needed. I would definitely recommend this great read.
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