Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

58 reviews

somelatenightreading's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Grief

Moderate: Suicide and Death

Minor: Animal death

emilyd1123's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Ableism, and Car accident

Moderate: Drug use and Cancer

Minor: Suicide, Animal death, Grief, and Medical content

tracey1981's review against another edition

funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

4.5

Several of the sections of this graphic memoir had me laughing out loud…a LOT! Some were also very moving, and a couple were just ok. I appreciated the range of this book and Brosh’s sense of humour and her descriptions of grief and depression really worked for me. I don’t remember what made Brosh’s previous book only 3 stars for me so I’m not sure if this was just the right time and place for me to read this or if something about this one was better. Regardless, I look forward to more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Ableism

alyssasaurus's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness, Grief, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

kayschwe's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, Drug use, Cancer, Car accident, and Medical trauma

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous funny sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use

nmcannon's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

After witnessing the scrapped raw humor of Hyperbole and a Half, I was curious where Brosh would go with this sequel memoir. Also: a library shelf was left unattended in my vicinity. 

Like its predecessor, Solutions and Other Problems is a collection of comics. The memoir has no plot per se: only a journey. It took me a bit to figure out where Brosh was going. Hyperbole’s intense exposure and authorial vulnerability carries over this sequel. At first, these stories seemed like lone fragments with little connection. Then came the chapter where Brosh discusses her younger sister’s sudden, violent death and I went oh.

I have a brother. He is not dead. But, my God, I cannot imagine any greater, utter shattering of the self than the loss of him. I cannot imagine ever again feeling the earth’s spin the same way. Each of Brosh’s chapters were spokes on the crushing wheel of grief, and the central hub was the gaping wound of her sister’s absence. Stack that on top of Brosh’s own health problems, the pandemic, the 2016 USA Election, and damn. It’s a wonder Brosh can get out of bed. 

Solutions and Other Problems is funny—but the humor is bleak. Nihilism threads itself through each piece. Brosh’s “nothing matters, life’s not fair, and everything’s absurd, so we might as well have fun” philosophy seems to get her through the day, so kudos to her. Thankfully, the book ends on a hopeful note and urges the reader to befriend oneself in all one’s weird glory.

Overall, I’d recommend this comic to adults who need someone to be with them in a dark place. Check the content warnings, and best of luck out there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Chronic illness, Excrement, Stalking, Grief, Mental illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Death, Vomit, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident

The level and description of triggering content in Solutions and Other Problems is either similar or one notch above the previous memoir, Hyperbole and a Half.

for_esme_with_love's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

For lovers of Hyperbole and a Half,  all things funny, and a long cathartic cry!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, Medical content, and Suicide

Moderate: Car accident and Death

Brosh talks about their grief processing the death of their sister

ratxheart's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical trauma, Car accident, Grief, Drug use, Alcohol, Death, Excrement, Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Animal death, and Suicide

Moderate: Body horror and Cursing

laur_o's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

Brosh is brilliant, poignant, and laugh out loud funny 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death