March - Hyperbole and a Half

[Jess]

This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative--like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it--but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book:

Pictures
Words
Stories about things that happened to me
Stories about things that happened to other people because of me
Eight billion dollars*
Stories about dogs
The secret to eternal happiness*

*These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!


I read this one at the end of last year. It is very funny and touching.

[Emy]

Love her blog so looking forward to this. :)

[Laura]

Just started last night and it's so funny. I've been literally loling all over the place. The writing is good, but what makes it are the drawings. They are so expressive and hilarious.

[Chen]

Just finished this last night, didn't know you were also reading it. Some really cute and relatable stories here.

The drawings are really so expressive despite being simple.

[Michelle]

I didn't care for it. I understood and like her depression part and the dog stories were always cute, but I didn't like it. I think it works better as a blog. I've read interviews wit the author and the crude art style is a simplistic choice she works hard on and has refined (the pupils on the eyes is always a big note on emotions), but it felt cramped on a book page. I am meh on the book except for the goose story. I just really loved how that was handled.