Cass previewed the book she thought she wanted us to read as a book club, and then changed her mind. And so, for August 2014 we're reading "Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened" by Allie Brosh.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.
 
Touching, absurd, and darkly comic, Allie Brosh’s highly anticipated book Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.
 
This
 full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty 
percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly 
revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, 
“The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” 
and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part 
Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations 
on the disease ever written.
 
Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a
 major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest 
scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to.
 
FROM THE AUTHOR:
This
 is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put 
on the back cover to explain what it is. 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. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the
 book:
Pictures
Words
Stories about things that happened to me
Stories about things that happened to other people because of me
Eight billion dollars*
Stories about dogs
The secret to eternal happiness*
*These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!

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