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How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
Written by Jacqueline Novak
Narrated by Jacqueline Novak
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
In her hilarious memoir-meets-guide-to-life, comedian (and professional depressive) Jacqueline Novak
reveals the hidden pleasures of depression, advises readers on how to make the most of a cat hair–covered life,
and helps them summon the strength to shed that bathrobe and face the world.
Exhausted? Run down? Filled with a vague sense of ennui, an occasional twinge of regret, or a hell of a lot of
mood stabilizers?
Then this is the book for you.
How to Weep in Public is both a tongue-in-cheek advice guide (from a person who has no business giving advice to
anyone!) and one woman’s breathless journey to consistently put on pants, or at least get out of bed in the morning.
Beginning with her earliest blue moments of infancy and hopscotching through her exploration of the world of
pharmaceuticals before bounding right back to her parents’ couch, Jacqueline Novak will introduce you to the ABCs
(Adderall! Benzos! Catatonia!) of depression and reveal, funnily enough, that a lot can happen even when you’re
standing still.
Or, as it happens, lying down.
Whether you’re coping with the occasional down day or thrive fully in Picasso’s Blue Period, How to Weep in Public
is the perfect place to regroup between those nagging Tony Robbins tapes and that exhausting amount of “leaning in.”
So sit back, relax, and let Jacqueline Novak teach you how to carpe depressem with the rest of them.
reveals the hidden pleasures of depression, advises readers on how to make the most of a cat hair–covered life,
and helps them summon the strength to shed that bathrobe and face the world.
Exhausted? Run down? Filled with a vague sense of ennui, an occasional twinge of regret, or a hell of a lot of
mood stabilizers?
Then this is the book for you.
How to Weep in Public is both a tongue-in-cheek advice guide (from a person who has no business giving advice to
anyone!) and one woman’s breathless journey to consistently put on pants, or at least get out of bed in the morning.
Beginning with her earliest blue moments of infancy and hopscotching through her exploration of the world of
pharmaceuticals before bounding right back to her parents’ couch, Jacqueline Novak will introduce you to the ABCs
(Adderall! Benzos! Catatonia!) of depression and reveal, funnily enough, that a lot can happen even when you’re
standing still.
Or, as it happens, lying down.
Whether you’re coping with the occasional down day or thrive fully in Picasso’s Blue Period, How to Weep in Public
is the perfect place to regroup between those nagging Tony Robbins tapes and that exhausting amount of “leaning in.”
So sit back, relax, and let Jacqueline Novak teach you how to carpe depressem with the rest of them.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Where to start? On pg 2 Novak is already telling us,“I definitely won’t try to cure you… No false promises of a life free of depression here …”Isn’t that refreshing?This memoir? guide is so sarcastically witty that it’s difficult to put down. Be warned, there are plenty of sexual references as well as some cursing, so this book is not for the faint of heart (or the easily offended).The chapter names and section titles are very creative, as well. Instead of just introducing ‘chapter 1’, ‘chapter 2’, and so forth, we see them instead labeled as things like: “Babyhood: Early Practice in Crying While Making Eye Contact with Strangers”. There were times in this book when I laughed out loud, and then barged in on my husband (or caught his attention) to read the section to him. Other times, How to Weep in Public was painfully easy to relate to. Stories – about an awful therapist and strange experiments to lose weight, ‘tips’ on how to make things easier to handle and thus be a better ‘depresso’ – flooded the pages. We can’t forget the lists, either. There are lists in this book on everything from: “A Few Good Books for the Depressed” to the “Top Five Tips for Crying in the Shower”. Novak’s writing is so intensely satirical that you can practically hear the words in her voice – even without having heard her speak before. There’s just so much personality in this book.If you like a humorous read that still keeps things real, pick up How to Weep in Public. You will be glad you did!Disclaimer: I received this book for free from Blogging for Books in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.