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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, and some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookaDay2023

Some parts of this were really funny and others were "meh." I loved the illustrations. They 100% made the book.

Adorable and relatable as always. I love Allie Brosh‘s work.

I almost cried at the part about her sister though, while in the airport waiting for my flight.

Stuck in the airport for 5 hours after my flight was delayed. So I bought some books! Excited for these two. 😄

BINGO! Woot woot. Also, the tagged book is fabulous. Devastating and weird and hilarious. I love Allie Brosh.

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks #Scarathlon2022 #teamslaughter @Clwojick

Touching, poignant, absurd… I loved it.

This is a heavy book, literally and figuratively. If you haven‘t read Hyperbole and a Half, read that first. This book benefits from that prior knowledge. It‘s raw and honest and at times absurd, but worth reading.

Maybe it‘s the graphics or maybe it‘s the writing style. Or maybe it‘s just me 😂

A funny illustrated memoir by cartoonist Allie Brosh! Not all of it was funny, but it is still worth the read!

Here is my Bookspin for May (done without access to my bookshelf...) @TheAromaofBooks

A few challenge focused books (roll100 & popsugar), a few from my books-about-sex stack that seems to have grown out of nowhere and a few that I've seen you guys reading and feel I need to experience 💕

Wish me luck! 😄🍀

Ready for April! I got my 2 March bookspin books done. World Swappers and Sister Santee.

@alexus_sb I ❤️the books you chose for the #swoonathonswap. I squealed with delight when I saw the tagged 📖; I loved her first one. I am about to dig into the other choice you sent me: English village, bookstore, & a dog on the cover = perfect for me! I am also set for treats. 🤩 Thank you so much. ❤️ Thank you for hosting @MidnightBookGirl & @kimmypete1

Some books are windows and some are mirrors; one need only look at our matching yellow ponytails & shifty googly eyes to know that Brosh‘s book is the latter for me. Her awkwardness, her anxiety, her indomitable creativity. Sure, she‘s much stranger (& I think much smarter & more daring) than me…but I find her so relatable. I love her EveryMillennial stick figure drawings & her sense of humor. I laughed out loud at the same time my heart hurt.👇🏻

The story begins:

“A kid said hi to me. I said, “Hello, how are you?” She said, “Good, how about you?”

The end of the story is that, working with children as I do, this is me…every day of my life.

“GOOG, KID. GOOG!”

I love Allie Brosh 💚💚💚 Like Jenny Lawson, her honest, and often humorous look at life, anxiety, depression, and just day to day activities always leaves me in a good mood.

This book has some dark, emotional sections and I love that the author didn't shy away from sharing them.

Because that's intimacy, Buckaroos

Somebody who understands exactly how weird you are, and you understand exactly how weird they are, and you're in a sort of mutually beneficial hostage situation.

This book was a lot different from her last one. This was mostly dark humor and seemed to be Brosh working through the absolute series of tragedies she had over the last few years. I laughed and wanted to just give her a giant hug, sometimes at the same time

Also, we got a new kitten! Meet Archimedes. The boyfriend named him. He was a street cat who jumped into my car and told me to take him home, so I did.

If you keep going, you‘ll eventually realize that the one true answer to all your questions is: Of course it doesn‘t make sense—what business do you have expecting things to make sense?

#currentlyreading #bookblurbs #ebooks #life #truth #humor

This is very funny at times. And it's a very quick read.

“I‘m a tragic, greedy animal with too many dreams to feel satisfied by reality. I want to know what everything cool feels like. I want to ride dragons into battle. I want to be important.”

#currentlyreading #bookblurbs #humor #ebook

Laughing out loud. Brosh‘s humor is so unique and up my alley 😝

#currentlyreading #humor #digitalreads #ebooks #cloudLibrary #funnies

Library haul 2/2

I wanted to go on to express how unfair the world is, and how many mistakes it‘s possible to make even when you‘re trying as hard as you can, and why I made the ones I did, and what they all were.

I managed to finish a book for the #20in4 and it was a wonderful choice. By turns funny, absurd, heartfelt, devastating, and honest, I enjoyed every single page. Made me realize just how much I‘ve missed Allie‘s voice and humor over the last 7 years. Recommended if you like her stuff already - don‘t know how this would hit if it‘s your introduction to Ms Brosh.

Allie Brosh‘s follow-up to her first book has a very different tone and feel to it. The humor is still there, but it also feels like an outlet for the author to work through the traumas she experienced in the last few years. Some chapters are more meandering and drawn out, but others are incredibly moving. It‘s a hard book to rate or review.

#pop21 #oxymoron in title
#nonfiction2021 free space

It‘s been an emotionally draining month. I‘ve been seeing a lot of clients in our HIV clinic lately that fell out of care during the pandemic and are just surfacing again. All of them are worse off than before, esp mental health wise, including the return of some risky behaviors, but I‘m so glad they are returning for care and case management. There may be a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, but are we prepared for the aftermath? ⬇️⬇️

I find this book difficult to rate, possibly because of my expectations. I expected humor, and there‘s some of that; what I didn‘t expect was outright nihilism. I know Brosh has dealt with mental issues in the past, but this was beyond that. I came out of this reading experience feeling almost hopeless. Pics are from this evening‘s walk where I continued to listen to The Southern Side of Paradise. #audiowalk

I‘ve been waiting for this to be available from my library and just found it while looking around on CloudLibrary, so it‘s my bedtime reading.

This is a big book. A 500+ page hardcover book of illustrated memoir to be exact. I don‘t know if it needed all 500 pages. I had high expectations because I enjoyed Allie Brosh‘s first book, Hyperbole and a Half, and unfortunately I could never quite get into this in the same way. Some essays I slogged through. Some were hysterical. Most were a pit of misery. If I was reading this pre-COVID, would I have found it more enjoyable?

This is, as expected, perfect. Allie Broch is extremely to the point about the arbitrary weirdness of the universe, whether that's about personal disasters or a very, very stubborn five-year-old neighbor. Or, like the story shown above, about taking a lot of drugs and going into the forest in attempt to conquer all your fears at once.

FINALLY getting to this one. I got about a third through on my lunch break and Fridays aren't days for getting things that aren't work and cleaning done, but hopefully I can read the rest tomorrow. amazing so far.

While this book was hilarious at times, and had me snorting in glee, it was also very poignant and sad. The mix of graphic novel and memoir was an interesting concept and it really brought together her stories. Her drawings are also PERFECT, for portraying the innocence of being a kid, the loneliness of being on your own and the sadness of losing one you love.

I will definitely go back and get Hyperbole and a Half. Loved it.

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#bookreport
While I didn‘t get a #bookspinbingo, I did make a nice dent in my February #bookspin list this month.
I‘m almost finished with my #doublespin pick of Sad Cypress (also my final #LMPBC read of the last round)

I have eagerly awaited Allie Brosh‘s follow up to Hyperbole and a Half and this didn‘t disappoint. She (the author) so deftly and poignantly explores the dark and light, heartbreaking and humorous times in life. Her openness makes me feel less alone.
#doublespin

I've got a billion reviews to catch up on, but why do that when I can post my #BookSpin / #DoubleSpin list? I'm still playing Book Bingo, so again, I just used that board and added to replace what I've read, so I can PLAY ALL THE BOOK GAMES! @TheAromaofBooks

3/5🌟
This second book from Allie Brosh started out strong in the funny, but midway through it became pretty depressing, and by the end it was kind of heartbreaking. I wasn‘t prepared for that. My heart goes out to Allie, who has been battling depression for years. ❤️

All the feels. ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This book made me cry from laughing and then cry out of sadness within the same hour.
I think everyone should read this.

Allie Brosh has had a lot happen to her since Hyperbole and a Half so this book was often darker and more introspective. But I liked it! She still had plenty of stories and illustrations that made me laugh out loud (the way she captures that derpy dog expression kills me every time) and I could appreciate her struggles even if I haven't been through the same things.

Once again, my overly ambitious #TBR for the month.

It‘s a very different tone from her first book, but I almost think I liked it better. Life is full of random hilarious moments and moments of deep tragedy and loneliness. It felt honest. And I still laughed till I cried and my husband had to ask if I was okay. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me, but only three from Appa because the big book got in the way of him getting pets.

Really enjoyed this, as expected. Brosh has been through so much hard stuff, and I hope her awesome and brutal sense of humor helps to sustain her. Pictured is my favorite page, because I have seen and marveled over this particular bird so often after watching Planet Earth and its contemporaries with my kids endless times, because they are obsessed.

Not bad for my first #20in4 ! Didn‘t quite hit the full 20 hours, but considering I was dealing with a minor infection, saw some family, and had to work for two of those days, I‘m pretty pleased! Thanks for hosting @Andrew65 - it was a lot of fun and I‘ll be adding it to my monthly readathon list!

Still struggling a lot with reading, but I‘ve been enjoying slowly making my way through Allie Brosh‘s latest and delighting in my excellent bookmark ✨
(Y‘all, there‘s no Nessie emoji, what an outrage!)

Allie Brosh has been through some stuff since her last book, so this one is often sadder and more disjointed than the last. I still laughed out loud a lot, though. I don‘t understand how her weird little MS-Paint pictures of dogs manage to capture canine personalities better than anything I‘ve ever encountered.

Finished my first book of 2021! It is *not* the first book... so much hard life has happened since then. I found the book heartbreaking. I did laugh at times, but even the funny ones were sad to me. But Brosh is still brilliant. 5🌟

Also — look how cool this little neighborhood of lights looks on my bookshelf! 🤩🤩 The pic doesn‘t capture its full glory, but it makes me v happy 😊

Also also sending my #cbbc package tomorrow!

Also also also👇🏽

4/5

Allie Brosh has definitely been through a lot since her first book was released, but once again she found a way to communicate difficult exhorting and to write and illustrate such funny stories that I laughed outloud so much my husband asked what I was doing.

She talks about depression, death, and guilt a lot, so a warning for anyone who doesn't feel up to that right now.

Happy New Year!
I‘m getting a late start this morning. But a pick me up of the tagged book, decaf London Fog in my fabulous Wooden Overcoats mug, and a chocolate muffin should work.

Starting the new year off right.
First books of the new year and a (not doctor approved) mocha.
My day‘s plans are to read, work on the Nomadic Knits Twelve Days of Knitmas mystery knit along, and watch some Korean horror with the #manpanion. PJs all day.
What are you all doing today?
#knittersoflitsy