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blicksam's review against another edition
5.0
I laughed out loud multiple times while reading this. Her imagination is immense and powerful, and she spins stories that are painfully, wonderfully relatable.
threegoodrats's review against another edition
4.0
Pretty heavy and sad compared to the first one, but still funny and relatable.
trin's review against another edition
5.0
I tried I tried I tried to pace out the reading of this, to savor it, but two days was the best I could do.
However, that's okay. There's so much here that I know I will be revisiting. Some chapters are so funny I was nearly crying. Others are so sad that I'm still sitting with the weight of them. Brosh writes about death, isolation, loneliness, pointlessness. This is, somehow, a very 2020 book, despite being seven years in the making.
I said in my review for a 2019 reread of Hyperbole and a Half that I just hoped Brosh was out there, that she was okay. Well, it turns out she wasn't always okay, but she kept going. She kept creating and what she's made is wonderful. I know I will be coming back to this book a lot as the year grinds on.
However, that's okay. There's so much here that I know I will be revisiting. Some chapters are so funny I was nearly crying. Others are so sad that I'm still sitting with the weight of them. Brosh writes about death, isolation, loneliness, pointlessness. This is, somehow, a very 2020 book, despite being seven years in the making.
I said in my review for a 2019 reread of Hyperbole and a Half that I just hoped Brosh was out there, that she was okay. Well, it turns out she wasn't always okay, but she kept going. She kept creating and what she's made is wonderful. I know I will be coming back to this book a lot as the year grinds on.
badatplants's review against another edition
4.0
Laugh out loud funny, surprisingly poignant. I want to mention that I started reading another book of hers that used the R slur and I DNF because I found that particularly abhorrent and I’m hesitant to read more by this essayist without further inspection.
priceliketag's review against another edition
dark
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
karpsy's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Made me both laugh and cry out loud in the best possible way. When I was done reading I hugged the book for a long while.
mplummer's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
5.0
13 yr old recommended me this book and it was perfect. It found me at the perfect time. It is truly a masterpiece. The amount of times I cried wheeze laughing was more than 5.