I Choose Darkness
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I Choose Darkness: A Holiday Essay is a brief comedic memoir by Jenny Lawson published on 2022-09-29.
In the essay, Lawson describes how her family celebrated the holidays while growing up in rural Texas, focusing mostly on Halloween, and how these events helped shape her love of all things macabre as she grew into adulthood.
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Personal
| Own? | No. |
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| Read? | Audiobook read by Jenny Lawson. |
| Finished | 2022-12-15. |
I saw an audiobook of this and thought it sounded interesting, so I listened to it.
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The essay has a few funny moments, but a lot of the humor didn't land for me. It was an okay read, but, if I didn't know from the beginning that it was only a half hour long, I would have stopped listening.
Quotes
- "But, to me, there is only one holiday that reigns supreme. The glorious, dark queen of the year, Halloween."
- "Looking back now, it seems strange that I spent so much of my childhood on alert for roving satanists and unmarked quicksand, neither of which ended up being nearly as much of a problem in my real life as I had been led to believe."
- "I am one of the small group of people who go to Halloween stores not for temporary plastic decorations but for actual interior design ideas."
- "Nowadays it's not necessary because my parents borrow goats, which are basically Mother Nature's lawn mower — a lawn mower that shits all over the place and would ram you with its head if you got too fucking close."
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