Solutions and Other Problems

By Allie Brosh

Humor

518 pages

Hardback 

I was so excited when I heard that this was coming out! I loved Hyperbole and  Half - her previous book. 

The art style is weird but charming, and the stories she tells feel honest and true. 

There is no chapter 4. 

The book is listed as Humor for the genre, but I would have thought Creative Non-fiction? It's memoir, I believe. 

Allie Brosh did the words, and the pictures, and even the jacket design. 

It's a cute, and funny, and sad book. 

It weighs a million pounds. Seriously, I think this might be the heaviest book I've ever owned. It made sense when I thought about it, becuase they had to use thicker paper so all that ink wouldn't just bleed right through. 

I actually pre-ordered the book, and got a signed copy. I'm weirdly happy about having signed books. 

I loved this book.

Check out her website if you want a preview of one of the chapters: Hyperbole and a Half

Calypso

By David Sedaris

259 pages

Hardback

It took me a long time to read this book. 

Reason 1: It's short stories, so it was easy to out down and not feel an urgent need to pick up again. 

Reason 2: Although the stories were interesting and funny, it's just not the genre I'm into right now.

It was our faculty book club book for March - a meeting which never happened. When it was time for our meeting, I was only about a quarter of the way through the book. Shocking. It took me over a month to read it! Crazy.

But it is very good, and very sad, and very funny.