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babayagaofficial's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Excrement, Grief, and Mental illness
Moderate: Death, Medical content, Mental illness, and Suicide
Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma
There’s also a mention of people suspecting pedophilia in one situation, but no pedophilia is actually taking place.kelsea's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Grief, and Suicide
Minor: Medical content
katefinityreads's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Allie Brosh is one of the only people who can write a book and make me laugh out loud. I’m so glad that she was able to finish this despite going through the worst period of her life. It's full of both sad and hilarious stories, but my favorites were the hangry banana fight and pile dog.
I got this in the mail when I was about 15 pages from finishing another 400 page book. I decided I’d just take a peek and I read almost half of this in one sitting. I highly recommend picking this up if you’re going through 2020.
I got this in the mail when I was about 15 pages from finishing another 400 page book. I decided I’d just take a peek and I read almost half of this in one sitting. I highly recommend picking this up if you’re going through 2020.
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death, Death, and Grief
arralsavanna's review against another edition
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Grief
ianders's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
After years of hearing nothing about her, Allie Brosh comes back and blindside me with a new book that is just as funny, relatable and meaningful as the first.
She still has the ability to make me laugh out loud and then cry in the span of a minute and a few pages.
Her illustrated anecdotes still makes dealing with the absurdity of life and existential dread a little less wearying.
Definitely recommend especially to fellow lonesome weirdos who need a reminder that the first friend you gotta make and appreciate is yourself. In spite of everything.
She still has the ability to make me laugh out loud and then cry in the span of a minute and a few pages.
Her illustrated anecdotes still makes dealing with the absurdity of life and existential dread a little less wearying.
Definitely recommend especially to fellow lonesome weirdos who need a reminder that the first friend you gotta make and appreciate is yourself. In spite of everything.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Grief, Drug use, and Cancer
rachaelbunny's review against another edition
emotional
funny
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Minor: Animal death
Divorcemalin12ccf's review against another edition
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informative
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5.0
Back in 2013, Allie Brosh published Hyperbole and a Half named after the blog she kept (and has finally updated with a new post!). I pre-ordered the last book and bought it as a Christmas present for pretty much every single person my husband and I knew that year (now our own copy seems to have mysteriously gone missing - which distresses me). Allie's blog (we are clearly on first-name basis, and would be great friends if we ever met) and her book meant a lot to me, frequently made me laugh until I gasped and allowed me to lose many hours on the internet, just reading her older entries. So many of her posts and drawings are now memes.
Then, suddenly, Allie just seemed to vanish entirely from the internet. She stopped updating her blog. Her rumoured second book failed to appear and no one really knew what had happened to her. Because of her honest portrayal of depression and anxiety, there was every possibility that something serious was to blame for her complete disappearance from the web. Until earlier this year, when suddenly this book, Solutions and Other Problems had a cover and a confirmed publishing date and I think I genuinely screamed with joy - because it meant that no matter what else had happened, Allie was alive and had completed another book and was ready to share her thoughts with the world again.
You'd best believe I pre-ordered this the very second I saw the news. I feared that with the usual Covid-delays, my book wouldn't make it here in time for the release day, but I was wrong. Even if this book had been a series of blank pages with the occasional gibberish scrawled on them, I would have happily paid for the book, because I'm so relieved and happy that Allie is OK (in a manner of speaking) and ready to engage with the internet again. She posted one chapter of the new book on her blog. If this doesn't make you laugh like a loon until your stomach hurts, then maybe her way of telling stories isn't for you.
For anyone wondering what happened to Allie, and why she's been gone for so long - it all gets explained in the book. Not everything she writes is laugh-out-loud funny. Like Jenny Lawson, Allie Brosh balances the hilarious and the tragic really well. She was honest about her struggles with depression and mental illness in the last book. When I reviewed her first book back in 2013, I had only the memory of my years of depression back at Uni and during my first years in Edinburgh. Now I'm fighting my way through another fairly major depressive episode and trying to navigate therapy and I feel like some sort of toxic rage monster has taken over my body and is slowly poisoning me and making me unable to control my thoughts and emotions. So this book probably meant even more to me now than Allie's first book did back in 2013.
From what I can gather from my Facebook updates feed, I am not the only one who pre-ordered and has happily consumed this book. For those like-minded people who love Allie and her wonderful way with words (and illustration), she is also updating her Facebook page with pictures, sketches, little videos, and many other things to show her fans more of what she's been up to in the seven years since she last appeared "in public". 2020 has been a very difficult year, this book and Allie Brosh's reappearance feels like a true blessing.
Judging a book by its cover: Oh Allie and your strange little MS Paint style self-portraits, I've missed you so much! Before I read the book, I thought this image was of childhood Allie, but it turns out I was wrong. I don't really want to say anymore so as not to spoil anything.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Suicide
tanyab's review against another edition
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Suicide, and Grief
Minor: Animal death
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