A picture of a slightly unhinged looking crocheted toy bear in a striped onesie where the stuffing is coming out of it vertically at the neck, on a blue background with confetti.

I received this as an eARC from NetGalley. I’ve enjoyed several of her other books, so when I saw a new one was coming, I snagged it immediately and plowed through it. Preorder link.

I grew up on the Muppets, and it warped/shaped enough of my personality and sense of humor that when I find a Muppet in human form who writes, I’m going to read the shit out of it. When my brain is not cooperating, I will liken it to three over-caffeinated squirrels in a trench coat. It won’t shut the fuck up, no matter how much I need it to. Jenny’s prose style frames that feeling like a superpower rather than a drawback. This book made me feel better just by being willing to be that weirdo friend that will sit with me when I am also feeling like I am that weirdo friend. The thing about that weirdo friend is that I can be that weirdo friend for myself, too.

Not every tip and trick will work for me, and that is FINE. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that for the length of this book, I felt like I wasn’t alone in my weirdness, my struggles to function some days, and in the attempts to motivate myself that only make sense in my own brain and no one else’s.

If you, too, have a brain that never shuts the fuck up, Jenny’s work is for you. At the very least, you will find new and inventive ways to convince yourself that you’re allowed to occasionally win the arguments, try something new, or just chill for once.

Highly recommended.