Solutions and Other Problems

I loved her first book, "Hyperbole and a half," & this one is just as good- if not even better! ("Poop mystery" might be my favorite.) She's also great at touching on topics that aren't necessarily funny to discuss & turning them into something pretty hilarious. I can always relate to a lot of what she writes about, but I especially appreciated the bits that touch on death in this book. I just lost my dad in 2023 and I haven't coped with the loss as well as I feel I should. For whatever reason her writing makes me feel a little less alone, & laughing about some of it certainly does help. Thanks, Allie. (This review was pointless though, much like everything else ;)

This book made me feel seen in some ways that I enjoyed and in ways I feel conflicted about. Regardless, it also made me feel less alone.

I love this author

I have been eagerly awaiting this book since I finished reading the first. And while it shares some similarities to book 1, it is also a very different beast. To me it is much less funny. Don't get me wrong, there's still plenty of humour to be found, but given that the book is predominantly centred around loss and grief, it is nowhere near as light as its predecessor. Just something to be aware of if you're thinking of grabbing this book because you enjoyed the last.

If you want to know what it's like to peer into someone else's brain and see a mirror, this is the book for you. Comforting, deeply sad. Definitely recommend to fans of hyperbole and a half. Thanks, Allie.

This and Hyperbole and a Half are my favorite books. My daughter recently read them and they changed her life and made her feel like she was going to be okay. Funny, honest, sad, and deep - these books had us laughing and crying with the author. Highly recommend!!!

I know that someday, when this book comes out it will be incredible. I loved your first book, Allie! It always helps make me laugh when the depression is taking over my life. Thank you for bringing me so much happiness and laughter over the years. I hope you're okay. -Leigha

Please exist. Even though it doesn't yet, it's already hilarious.

I remember finding the Hyperbole and A Half blog back when I was in secondary school, and I loved it immediately! I read every single post, and cried with laughter more times than I can count. I can still remember reading the blog posts about depression, and then the complete silence after that, for years and years. Every few years I’d be reminded of it by something or other, and look to see if there was anything new, but there was only silence. And then last week, a Facebook page that I’d long forgotten I had liked came back to life, and bought with it the news of this book! I pre ordered it immediately and once it arrived, I read it in one sitting. This book is both exactly what I wanted, and not anything like what I was expecting. I’d felt like I “knew” Allie’s life years back, with Duncan and the helper dog and the simple dog, and I was excited to both read some more hilarious stories and see updates on how her life has been going! But as Allie writes, “it’s mayhem out there”! Her writing is, if anything, better than it was all those years ago, this book will make you laugh and chuckle and straight up lose it at parts – the Richard story had me laughing so hard that I had to put the book down! But it is also a brave, strong, touching book. It deals with dark subjects, with tough topics, and Chapter 10 made me cry for a good long while. But all the way through, while the message that “life is pointless and things suck sometimes” is typed, written and even shouted out at you over and over, there is always hope and joy and laughter still threaded through, and I see it as an optimistic book, a book that grabs the fact that “life is pointless” and uses that to show you that you can be free, you can do anything you want! So, would I reccomend this book? Would I say it’s worth the long, long wait? 1000%. Go do yourself a favour, and read this book, because as Allie writes, “no one should have to feel like a pointless little weirdo alone”, and this book makes you feel like you arent alone. My Rating: 5/5

I'd been waiting for a new release from the author since I finished hyperbole and a half, and I was pleasantly surprised this year when I looked it up on Amazon and saw there was a new one, released almost two years ago. I've only finished 2 chapters so far, and I've been enjoying the experience. Book and pages are very high quality, so I don't regret buying the physical book.

(Someone has to pick her up after she takes drugs and gets lost on purpose in the middle of the night in a dark forest, after all) Hello there. Hope you're having a great day. By the way, why are you reading this comment, and why am I writing it? We both know you will not find another author like Brosh. Her second book might be less your speed than her first, or more - who cares. If you like Brosh, you can hardly find a subsitute for her anyway, so let's just give up, get the book and enjoy the somewhat-guarded, somewhat self-depreciating, somewhat hilarious, somewhat heartbreaking madness. It does feel like a second book as Brosh now writes and draws about her own funny quirks with the confidence of someone who knows her readers will eat it up, especially when talking about her childhood. When she moves on to difficult topics, however, the tone changes. In those pages, you can feel her efforts to say things without resorting to clichés and you sense a restraint that is not present in the more characterful episodes, as though she is second-guessing herself, careful not to say the easy-but-wrong thing. It does not prevent the story from connecting with the reader - in fact, it is easy see our own hesitations and difficulties in talking about the worst and allowing ourselves to feel it. Brosh stays with the discomfort too, going though it step by step: there is no going back to funny dog stuff as though nothing happened, and we thank here for it. While this book felt less like a complete, unalterable masterpiece for me than the first one did, this is not to say I liked it less. It left me in a more thoughtful state of mind, hoping there will be a next one to see where the author's mind is going.

This little tiny stick doll got me crying as a baby and laughing out loud again. This one isn't as great as the masterpiece of Hyperbole and a Half, but it's amazing in it's own way.

Book delivered on birthday. First birthday after mother died. Read Chapter 10. Losing. Think all the thoughts. Feel all the feels. No sleep. Want to use words. Not enough words. Too many words. Too many feels. Go cemetery. Take daisy chains. Remember. Picture album. Unto dust thy shall return. Mortality bus is real. What now? Don’t know. Not alone in not knowing. Thank you Allie.