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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
As always a delight
Hilarious and heartbreaking. She provides the best description of loneliness and a great guide to self acceptance and support. So glad she is back.
Hilarious and heartbreaking. She provides the best description of loneliness and a great guide to self acceptance and support. So glad she is back.
Man this book was good. Part hilarious and part devastating, and some parts a mix of both. I would recommend this and her first book (Hyperbole and a Half) to most any adult.
I also really like the mix of drawing (even terrible drawing) and paragraph writing for story telling.
I also really like the mix of drawing (even terrible drawing) and paragraph writing for story telling.
After a 7 year hiatus Allie Brosh returns with a double-length tome full of shenanigans, proto-memes, and deeply personal introspection. All told, as before, through the beautiful medium of MS paint.
I'm not exactly sure why but Solutions and Other Problems doesn't feel as fresh to me as Hyperbole and a Half did. I think part of that is when the first book came out I had already read about 60% of it on her blog at 18 and that I was a sophomore in college (2nd year undergrad). There's something about being barely out of your teens that makes shit like this unfathomably funny and I couldn't get enough of it. Now, it's still funny, but I feel like I've already made my peace with a lot of it. Have I grown out of Brosh??
Not entirely at least. Her artwork is still absolutely bananas and she really excels at gormless animals. The standout stories for me were: Richard, Losing, The Pile-Dog, and the one where she tries to remove all her fears with a figurative immersion therapy.
She's also still really good at explaining how cruel our minds can be to ourselves. I would have liked more of that but given how tough a time she went through on her hiatus it makes sense she mostly wants to keep it light.
So overall, I think this is great, a case of it's-me-and-not-you that I didn't love this as much as Hyperbole and a Half.
I loved this alot.
I was lucky enough to attend a virtual event at Powell's a few days after this was published where we got to watch Allie interviewed by Elizabeth Gilbert and meet her mum! It was an incredible 3 hour event and as a bonus I got sent this great print!
I'm not exactly sure why but Solutions and Other Problems doesn't feel as fresh to me as Hyperbole and a Half did. I think part of that is when the first book came out I had already read about 60% of it on her blog at 18 and that I was a sophomore in college (2nd year undergrad). There's something about being barely out of your teens that makes shit like this unfathomably funny and I couldn't get enough of it. Now, it's still funny, but I feel like I've already made my peace with a lot of it. Have I grown out of Brosh??
Not entirely at least. Her artwork is still absolutely bananas and she really excels at gormless animals. The standout stories for me were: Richard, Losing, The Pile-Dog, and the one where she tries to remove all her fears with a figurative immersion therapy.
She's also still really good at explaining how cruel our minds can be to ourselves. I would have liked more of that but given how tough a time she went through on her hiatus it makes sense she mostly wants to keep it light.
So overall, I think this is great, a case of it's-me-and-not-you that I didn't love this as much as Hyperbole and a Half.
I loved this alot.
I was lucky enough to attend a virtual event at Powell's a few days after this was published where we got to watch Allie interviewed by Elizabeth Gilbert and meet her mum! It was an incredible 3 hour event and as a bonus I got sent this great print!
I cannot express how good it is to read Allie Brosh's work again. Intensely relatable. Maybe too relatable. I really missed her art style and her stories about dogs.
Very personal. Very emotional. Mostly funny, and sometimes sad. If I knew how the pulitzer prize worked, I would say Allie Brosh deserves one for Chapter 10. "Losing". It is the most heavy and difficult chapters in the book and without it, I am sure I would have a weird feeling that something in my life is missing. This is also my final read for 2020, and I'm glad it was. Also, if you haven't seen Brosh's facebook page she has a few weeks of posts that are a very deep behind the scenes (ish) look into what I would say a lot her inspirations for the book.
I don't entirely know how to feel about the books in this series. Some chapters are certainly better than others, but the book is sort of scattered about with events in the author's life. It's not my favorite, but it's a short and fairly quick read. It's longer than the first book for certain, but still quick because of the graphic novel style of it.
This book is humorous, but deals with a lot of pretty heavy topics. The author is using her art as therapy and I think she uses her platform very effectively. From death and mental illness to the crazy neighbor child ... lots of opportunity for humor and processing. I'm sure anybody dealing with some of these same issues will find a kindred spirit in the protagonist.
