As I believe I've mentioned here before, I listen to audiobooks as I fall asleep to help keep the creeping anxiety at bay. It works wonders! Not only does it mean getting a little extra reading time in at the end of the day, it also means having something to focus on other than my own varied and myriad shortcomings as I try to lose consciousness. Win win! 
 This book did not work. 
 I knew I was in trouble as soon as Lawson's first joke had me laughing at loud. Her voice (the audiobook is narrated by its author) is upbeat, and she tends to begin each chapter with a (rather loud) song.One of these woke my spouse and, after about 20 minutes of the bed shaking because we were both laughing so hard, I realised that this was not going to work as a bedtime book. Instead, it became my doing-the-dishes book. 
 I'm not sure that I've ever laughed so hard while doing the dishes. 
 Lawson's reading style is very casual - she sounds like someone rather excitable telling anecdotes at a party. She gets caught up in her stories, occasionally even adding asides that I'm pretty sure aren't in the text, and she is always careful to put the appropriate emphasis on words like "vagina." 
 As much as I enjoyed the book, the narrative style was uneven. The stories of Lawson's childhood - mostly found in the first half of the book - were great, but then a number of chapters in the second half sounded as though she had just reproduced posts from her blog without much editing. So while the book begins as a memoir, it then becomes a random assortment of vignettes - having a sleepover with friends, a collection of post-it notes left for her husband, that sort of thing. Each of these chapters is a whole unto itself, with a kind of thesis that is explained and resolved by the end, but that doesn't fit with the larger themes of the book. Most of these chapters were absolutely fine, and I enjoyed them, but they felt out of place. Honestly, they read like filler - like Lawson wrote this book about her family, realised that it was too short, and padded it with blog posts. 
 Despite this one flaw, I really enjoyed the book. It's not something that I would read again, but it was funny and entertaining and it made doing the dishes a whole lot of fun.