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  • @Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    110 months ago

    “Solutions and other problems” by Allie brosh. I didn’t know she’d written a second book, I was so excited for it. I’m about halfway through and I understand why she’s fallen off the blog scene, if there is a blog scene any more?

    She definitely controls the medium, and meditates the pace of chaos introduced, I remember something along the lines of there will be no chapter 4 to test your ability to handle chaos, then we will have chapters 5-8 as normal to show that order is still a possibility, but we’re skipping number 9, and from there on it’ll be a surprise (very very lose paraphrasing).

    She warned that it would be heavy, but I wasn’t prepared for anything. I knew it had been a long time since her previous publication, and ever since I discovered hyperbole and a half I tried to read everything she’d written, but it had been so long since she published anything. Well halfway through the book I entirely understand why.

    I wouldn’t recommend starting with “solutions and other problems”, check out her first book, or even start at the beginning of the blog, it doesn’t taken too long to consume, but I’m very much enjoying the rollercoaster that is solutions and other problems, even when it’s causing me to tear up.