"I must have interrupted Melinda a dozen times to read to her passages that made me laugh out loud... The adventures she recounts are mostly inside her head, where we hear and see the kind of inner thoughts most of us are too timid to let out in public. Despite her book’s title, Brosh’s stories feel incredibly—and sometimes brutally—real... It is no hyperbole to say I love her approach—looking, listening, and describing with the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian." (Bill Gates
in Summer 2015 Reading List)
About the author
Allie Brosh started the blog Hyperbole and a Half
in 2009. After someone posted it on Reddit, her blog became viral.
According to Wikipedia, in October 2011, Brosh revealed she had depression to her readers on Reddit
along with a blog post and kept her online presence inactive for more than a year. In May 2013, she made a second post which was long and chronically detailed her struggle and thoughts of suicide. In the same year, she had over 380,000 Facebook likes and around 72 million website views. It got 1.5 million visits in a day while the amount of positive and supportive comments that they were worried about her surprised Brosh. Her two posts about her struggle with depression with its dark humour are her most popular works.
In 2011, her blog was included in a list of the funniest sites by PC World
. In 2013, Advertising Age
put Brosh in its yearly list of "Most influential and creative thinkers and doers".
"I must have interrupted Melinda a dozen times to read to her passages that made me laugh out loud... The adventures she recounts are mostly inside her head, where we hear and see the kind of inner thoughts most of us are too timid to let out in public. Despite her book’s title, Brosh’s stories feel incredibly—and sometimes brutally—real... It is no hyperbole to say I love her approach—looking, listening, and describing with the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian." (Bill Gates
in Summer 2015 Reading List)
About the author
Allie Brosh started the blog Hyperbole and a Half
in 2009. After someone posted it on Reddit, her blog became viral.
According to Wikipedia, in October 2011, Brosh revealed she had depression to her readers on Reddit
along with a blog post and kept her online presence inactive for more than a year. In May 2013, she made a second post which was long and chronically detailed her struggle and thoughts of suicide. In the same year, she had over 380,000 Facebook likes and around 72 million website views. It got 1.5 million visits in a day while the amount of positive and supportive comments that they were worried about her surprised Brosh. Her two posts about her struggle with depression with its dark humour are her most popular works.
In 2011, her blog was included in a list of the funniest sites by PC World
. In 2013, Advertising Age
put Brosh in its yearly list of "Most influential and creative thinkers and doers".