HyperboleAndAHalf.blogspot.com receives millions of visitors a month and hundreds of thousands of per day.Winner of the 2011 Bloggies Awards for Most Humorous Weblog and Best WritingAlready reached no.20 on Amazon.com (pre-publication). Interview requests from The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, NPR, The Huffington Post and moreOver 360,000 followers on Facebook and 100,000 on Twitter.Comparative books include
Cyanide and Happiness, Simon's Cat, and David Sedaris
.Allie Brosh has enjoyed writing ever since her mother tricked her into writing a story to distract her from her immediate goal of wrapping the cat in duct-tape. She started her award-winning blog in 2009. Brosh lives in Bend, Oregon, with her fiancé Duncan, her two dogs, and six pet rats. Visit HyperboleAndAHalf.blogspot.com.
Hilarious stories about life's mishaps from the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half'. Fully illustrated with over 50% new material.
Hyperbole and A Half is a blog and webcomic written by a 20-something American girl called Allie Brosh. She tells fantastically funny, wise stories about the mishaps of her everyday life, with titles like 'Why Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving' and 'The God of Cake'..
Brosh's website receives millions of visitors a month and hundreds of thousands per day. Now her full-colour debut book chronicles the many 'learning experiences' Brosh has endured as a result of her own character flaws. It includes stories about her rambunctious childhood; the highs and mostly lows of owning a mentally challenged dog; and a moving and darkly comic account of her struggles with depression.
'Quirky and captivating' Observer
'It's impossible not to warm to cartoonist and blogger Allie. If she doesn't get to you with her funny childhood anecdotes (eating an entire birthday cake) then her honest reflections on depression will' Grazia
A hilarious collectionWill certainly help you, should you perhaps decide to indulge in a spot of “self-gifting” in this instance, survive Christmas with your more crazed relativesFantastic, hilarious, emotionalYou may have to push this book away for fear you'll hurt yourself laughing, but its wisdom and humanity – no hyperbole here – are too magnetic to keep at bay for longHonest, poignant and ridiculously silly in all the best ways and I'm better for having read it. Plus, doggies!
