Mara

Allie Brosh is funny, insightful and completely relatable. I've loved her blog for years, and the book is more of the same quality storytelling.

It's hard to say much bad about a book that got me to cry within the first chapter. I liked this book a lot.

Fantastic, 10 stars out of 5. Everything I wanted it to be and more. Some science, sure, but also drama, action, batshittery and hijinks.

Some light entertaining candy, a fun easy bit of fluff.

I don't understand how they made this into television but it was fun to read.

Weird book. It takes some time to really unfold, but much of the fun comes from that process.

It's not often that I don't finish a book, I am stubborn enough to power through even mediocre works. But I did not finish this. It's just a pile of disjointed self important self pitying artist wank. The concept of seeing one's self and life through the lens of famous (or forgotten, less famous than they should be) people of the past is fine enough but that does not come across here at all, it reads more as wishing to be these people while doing nothing of import. This was sold to me as some sort of feminist manifesto, championing the forgotten women overshadowed by men or just ignored because of their gender, bringing their stories forward and of finding connection with them, but unless it starts to do so very late in the book that is not what is going on. It is also frustrating that this reads as a hectic jottings of a scattered person writing notes for themselves without ever editing for comprehension or cohesion, so you can't even follow who is being referenced half the time - I guess if you already had an encyclopedic knowledge of literary wives listed by only their first names without mention of the more famous husband's name and only contextualized by some obscure factoid about their life, it might be easier.

I bet this was even cuter with illustrations, but as an audiobook is an excellent short zone out session while working on a project.

This book is arranged in to three parts - a section on Hopi myths and stories, another on rituals and feast days, and a last portion covers the historical record since Europeans came to the southwest. They're all fascinating, but the first two take a bit more focus to keep straight and follow the threads of, at least as someone who isn't steeped in the culture and customs. The book is slightly dated, I would like to read an updated version that continues the historical narrative and gives more context and explanation to the myths and customs. It's remarkable for its day and still readable today, ie not just a pile of racism.