I had tasted cake and there was no going back. I won’t even try to describe it - but let’s just say that by page 2, my first laughing fit had kicked in.Īnd then there’s the cake story from when she was three years old: I absolutely loved the first piece in the book, about finding a letter from herself at age 10, written to her adult self.
If you were sitting quietly on your couch, waiting for your girlfriend to come back inside so you could finish watching your movie, and while you were waiting, someone called you up and said “I’ll give you a million dollars if you can guess what’s going to happen next,” you absolutely would not guess “I am going to be brutally and unexpectedly attacked by a goose in my own home.” Even if you had a hundred guesses, you would not guess that. How to even describe the glory of her test of the simple dog’s IQ? Or the helper dog’s hatred of the fact that other dogs exist anywhere at all? And then there’s the story of the mad goose that came into her house one night, like some evil spirit out of a horror movie. I’ll admit it straight out - the dog stories are the ones that really cracked me up. Unflinchingly honest, the author splits this book between odd childhood behavior, her two dogs (the “simple” dog and the “helper” dog), and her own struggle with depression. But I understand she has quite a following, and I can see why. I’d never read anything by her prior to reading this book. So - Allie Brosh is well-known for her web comic/blog (also called Hyperbole and a Half). How do I even begin to describe a book like Hyperbole and a Half? Besides saying that I found myself bursting into uncontrollable giggles while reading - and you can ask my family: I’m not usually the uncontrollable giggles type. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness! Stories about things that happened to other people because of me So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book:
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. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. Today, we’re looking at Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh:
Welcome to the December pick for the Fields & Fantasies book club! Each month or so, in collaboration with my wonderful co-host Diana of Strahbary’s Fields, we’ll pick one book to read and discuss.
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