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“I had tasted cake and there was no going back. My tiny body had morphed into a writhing mass of pure tenacity encased in a layer of desperation. I would eat all of the cake or I would evaporate from the sheer power of my desire to eat it."

Hyperbole and a Half, aka how I met my soul mate.

I think Allie Brosh and I should get around and have kids with existential crisis sometime. I’m still wondering how to get around the biological issues considering that we are both women, but we have comics! Yay!

I see a lot of myself in Allie. We had the same overbearing love for dogs as we were kid. I once made an entire plot to break into the Pet shop and steal all the puppies when I was like nine. We also have a worrisome love for sweet things.

In a sadder note, we also deal with depression in the same way: by locking it inside ourselves until there was nothing we could do but open up and try to fix our emotions. It didn't really worked out like we both expected,but it did and that's what matters. As Allie described herself: 

“And that's the most frustrating thing about depression. It isn't always something you can fight back against with hope. It isn't even something - it's nothing. And you can't combat nothing.”

But you can get better from most things,even when it's nothing.

Allie is simply the kind of person I’d like to be with. To hang out, to talk about random stuff like that one time a goose tried to murder her. It was a pleasure to be able to get inside her head for some pages.

Sentence: Funny, laid-back, full of comic books. Basically everything I could ask for a biography,and more!

Yet another book I’ve read based on a blog.

I first learned about Allie Brosh’s work from a friend who shared the Alot with me- Brosh’s furry brown creature that embodies her frustration with grammatical errors.

The Alot brought me to Hyperbole and a Half (the blog), which is absolutely wonderful. The internet has since created memes based on Brosh’s work, the most famous of which likely derives from this:

What is the most astonishing to me is the amount of pathos Brosh can inject into her MS Paint artwork while combining it with humor and very deep, sometimes humiliating honesty.

The book, titled after the blog, is a combination of work previously published on her blog and new pieces. Brosh manages to talk about a range of experiences, from stealing cake and caring for mentally deficient canines, to fighting debilitating depression without losing her twin powers of insight and absurdity. She can make you laugh and cry almost simultaneously. And she'll make you think twice about adopting a dog without being fully prepared for the consequences.

I love Brosh’s blog, and thus I love her book. While I wish it had more original material, I still love revisiting her earlier stories and hope she has more in her to share.