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by Allie Brosh (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 8,231 ratings
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh—beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half—returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays.

Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh’s childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.

This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features all-new material with more than 1,600 pieces of art. Solutions and Other Problems marks the return of a beloved American humorist who has “the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian” (Bill Gates).

Praise for Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half:
“Imagine if David Sedaris could draw….Enchanting.” —People
“One of the best things I’ve ever read in my life.” —Marc Maron
“Will make you laugh until you sob, even when Brosh describes her struggle with depression.” —Entertainment Weekly
“I would gladly pay to sit in a room full of people reading this book, merely to share the laughter.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“In a culture that encourages people to carry mental illness as a secret burden….Brosh’s bracing honesty is a gift.” —Chicago Tribune
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“Brosh’s storytelling is so distinctive and compelling it’s like suddenly running in to a friend you feared was lost forever . . . [She] reliably channels the simplicity of a child or the innocence of an animal and tells raucous, heartbreaking stories that reflect the hidden parts of us all . . . For Brosh’s millions of fans, this is well worth the wait.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Gut-busting . . . . Like a millennial James Thurber, Brosh has a knack for seeding a small, choice detail that snowballs into existential chaos . . . [Her] spidery and demented digital portraits, a visual expression of fun-house mirror anxiety, fits her material perfectly. . . This achingly accurate and consistently hilarious comic memoir finds Brosh moving forward and becoming a stronger, braver storyteller page by page.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“Through it all, [Brosh] is refreshingly vulnerable and honest. In trying to overcome her weaknesses, by spending a night alone in the woods, she reminds us that it’s okay not to be okay ... Another standout from Brosh that is both heartening and heartbreaking.”
—Library Journal, Starred Review

“Brosh alternates sorrow with levity—funny childhood stories, more animal tales, and general musings on life and its lack of meaning or fairness—with grace that feels true to life.”
—Booklist

“The book an author produces after a wildly popular debut has all eyes on it. Fear not, Allie Brosh fans: Solutions and Other Problems is every bit as hilarious and slyly poignant as 2013’s Hyperbole and a Half. Starting with the time she got stuck in a bucket at age 3, Brosh’s autobiographical comics thrust her into a variety of insane and sometimes heartbreaking scenes. She battles anxiety, depression, annoying neighbors . . . and somehow, it cheers you right up.”
—People

“No one sums up the hilarity, devastation and bizarreness of life quite like comic artist and blogger Allie Brosh. Her long-awaited follow-up to Hyperbole and a Half couldn’t have come at a better time than this absurd and awful year. From stories about mystery poop and a dandelion-fearing child to the struggle for self-acceptance and the heartbreaking loss of her sister, it’s a road trip through a brilliant and inquisitive mind, driven by colorful illustrations, sharp wit and refreshing honesty. And if you’re just looking for laughs, Brosh has elevated the funny pet story to a literal art form.”
—NPR

“Brosh is LOL funny…a deranged graphic storyteller without peer. Alienation is her subject. Spillage is her style…Her animal stories are superb…Brosh’s stories, many drawn from her childhood, are madcap with a strong tragic undertow.”
—The Wall Street Journal

About the Author

Allie Brosh is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Solutions and Other Problems and Hyperbole and a Half, which was named the Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Humor Book of the Year. Brosh has also given herself many prestigious awards, including “fanciest horse drawing” and “most likely to succeed.” Find out more at HyperboleandaHalf.blogspot.com.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B084VVG2GF
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books; Illustrated edition (September 22, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 22, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 238128 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 525 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Allie Brosh has enjoyed writing ever since her mom 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 husband Duncan, her two dogs, and six pet rats.

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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The cartoons and stories we need
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The cartoons and stories we need
Recently, a woman I used to work with launched a YouTube channel in the hopes of becoming a YouTube star. Yup - just her, a web cam, and 30 minutes of nonsense. Her drinking coffee. Her talking about nothing. Her foam rolling with her crotch RIGHT on the camera. We're talking OBGYN views.And you know what? She's probably going to get some sort of endorsement deal for shorts that keep your beaver from falling out and this will lead to more deals and she'll become a millionaire. All for having a rambling vagina. It's not fair and makes zero sense, and that's the point. Nothing is fair and nothing makes sense. All of those Instagram quotes that give you hope, that make you feel better about your horrible boss or cheating significant other - yeah they don't mean anything. Sometimes things just are the way they are and it's up to you to figure it out. Over the years I've learned this, and so has Allie Brosh. Except her way of explaining it is way more entertaining because she uses drawings. I've been waiting for Problems and Other Solutions to drop for years and the wait was well worth it. It's not been an easy few years for Allie but if anyone can explain the complexities of tragedy, loss, and the human emotions behind them in a humorous, engrossing way, she can. In her follow up to Hyperbole and a Half, Allie details her journey that kept her off of the internet for 7 years, leaving us all to anxiously await her return. While on her hiatus, Allie experienced in a short time what some experience over a lifetime: mental and physical health issues, a divorce, and the untimely passing of her younger sister.And yet, despite having to endure these hardships all at once, she manages to tell her story with humor, strength, and her signature cartoons we all love - over 500 pages of them, to be exact. If there's been anything good about 2020, it's the return of Allie Brosh and her book, Problems and Other Solutions. Welcome back, Allie!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Started as a blog, lives forever in my soul.
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024
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Allie Brosh is relatable and amazing. This book is hilarious. The stories are short, the simple illustrations capture human emotion and moments beautifully.

Not really a children's book, but that is entirely up to your parenting style, I suppose.
This a you book. A bathroom book. A coffee table book. A-read-together-via-flashlight-with-your-spouse-and laugh-during-a-power-outage book. (Based on a true reading experience)

Highly recommend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2020
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I loved her blog, before her first book. For some reason I never got the first book. I think at the time I thought if I was going to get a book and call it a book, it had to be a traditionally proper book. With a coherent storyline and a linear progression and a sense of closure at the end.

This felt instead like a long journal entry. This reads kind of like my journals. Some things are spelled out more because it's someone else's mind and they're trying to bring me into it.....vs it being my own mind. But the flow felt the same. Very familiar and much easier to step into as something to just accept. Without trying to find a point or coherence to it. It just is.

There's a good bit of heavy stuff the author's hashing through in this book. Whatever her reasons are for sharing her life and her thoughts about her life with the world, I'm glad that she chose to do it again.

I expected some laughs, no question the author's got a flair for humor. And the not funny stuff....like yeah she's selling this book....but it's her life. You know? It's her dealing with her life in words and pictures. She's at where she's at. This book's documenting a life over a long period of time. It's got all the randomness and sweetness and unanswered questions and sudden tragedies that life gives. It's authentic. It's something real at a time when alot seems surreal. And that was very comforting for me to experience.

This author has been through A LOT and whether she did it for the world or for herself she's created something touching and timeless in this book in response to all of that. I can't remember the last time I've felt so powerfully the grief over a lost loved one as I did from the drawings of her memories In this book.

The way the author talks about herself to herself may seem brutal and sad to some. Anyone who's been there knows what a fight it is on the inside to live day to day in the way she ends this book. It takes a lot of love and hope to be in that place and tell everyone, including yourself, to keep going. Yeah. I think that's what's touched me to the point of crying long after I finished reading.

This book has alot of earnest lighthearted laughs, and some deeply cynical self-loathing laughs, and some unequivocally heartbreaking events. I don't know that it's meant to have a formal point/message. But I hope if you give this book a shot you can take away from it that the author is actively and intentionally appreciating herself for who she is while encouraging us all to do the same with ourselves. That's what I took from the ending, and that's motivational.

Don't know if you read comments but on the off chance you do and on the even more off chance you see this review - thank you for publishing this book, Allie Brosh.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I Love This Book!
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2020
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An image appears, portraying a lonely country road with signs in the distance. The colours are dusty and muted, and handwritten atop is a simple truth. "The main conflicts in life are: food; power; what to do about the unavoidable realization that nothing is fair or means anything. I don't know what to do about these. I just wanted to tell you."

Another image appears. In it, a half-cartoon, half-stick-figure woman hunches over in maniacal fashion, holding a banana with a face drawn on it. In the sky is a handwritten message: "If you can't win, start playing a different game and score just as many points."

What do these things have in common? They're examples of how humour and honest exasperation with the world blend to create an entertaining and relatable experience in the form of a book that's half blog and half comic with a bit of novella sprinkled atop. This book is just... it's good. I could come up with a more elaborate term and try to be a pretentious book reviewer for this one, but it's 2020 and I'm exhausted. I don't need to sound pretentious. I just need to say: I absolutely love this book.

It's brilliant. It's fun. It's heartbreaking. It's relatable. It made me smile and laugh so hard my ribs hurt... and then it made me want to reach out and hug Allie (the author) because I felt as if I were reading the confessions of an estranged friend. She has been through so much in life, some of which I can relate to and some of which I luckily can't, and reading this book made me feel less alone.

For a brief time, I escaped the real world and entered a world populated by delightfully simple drawings which managed to convey paragraphs worth of exposition with things as simple as posture. Even the sad bits weren't overwhelming, as there were still threads of humour in the darkness.

I know this isn't a very elaborate review. You'll probably find some better ones elsewhere. And that's okay. Just know that I love this book so much that I'm proud to have pre-ordered it on a friend's recommendation. My literal only complaint is that the kindle edition is somewhat clunky and unattractively laid out, often requiring zooming on images to read them. I think that's a limitation of the format more than an oversight, so I'm not penalizing the rating.

If you're looking for a way to escape the world without completely leaving reality behind - a way to find humour in even the darkest of places and feel less alone - then I highly recommend this book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars I really liked her first book, but this one felt very short :(
Reviewed in Mexico on January 4, 2021
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I'm a big fan of her, her cartoons and overall her humor. I was very excited to read this book, and while there were parts that were okay, overall the book felt short for me. Get the first book though, it's really really good :)
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MK
5.0 out of 5 stars oops she did it again
Reviewed in Canada on November 10, 2020
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This book is not the same as the first book, if it was people would complain. It is different... and for that I am grateful. Because if it was the same as the first book, I would be complaining about it.

There *is* one comic Allie posted about the hole of depression on her FB page that didn't make it into this book and I really wish it had. The hole of depression is so very real. I was sad it didn't make the cut. Some people in the reviews are saying that the book is too dark? To that I say, you are too light. What were you expecting lol? Go read Eat, Pray, Love and jark off and try again. This was a very entertaining read and I will keep buying Allie's books until the end of time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great sequel !
Reviewed in France on October 22, 2021
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I loved the first one and I wasn't disappointed by the sequel.
It made me laugh (and sometimes cry) a lot. Very cathartic !
I don't know how she manages to express so many emotions with such simple drawings.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in Spain on November 13, 2020
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Love the book
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Buchfuchs
5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect book for 2020
Reviewed in Germany on October 3, 2020
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I cannot add anything new to what has already been said about this book. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it puts into words what I often cannot understand about myself. It is the perfect book for me for this terrible year and I want to say thank you to Mrs. Brosh that she got this book out there despite everything she's been through.
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