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A review by trin
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
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.