EricaO

Dear Allie Brosh,
You are my Blog-To-Book Author hero, probably forever but for sure this entire week. Month. Even year!
You were not kidding when you said, wherever it was you said it, that this gem of yours is 40% blog and 60% new stuff.
I have been disappointed in so many blog-to-book books because they're just reiterations of what I've already read and laughed over and they're not even compiled in a fashion that creates a larger story. That disappointment is what led me to create my Plan of Attack: Check the book out from the library first and then, if it is delightful, purchase it.
I checked your book out from the library. I read it at bedtime (because that's the only time I have to read) and my husband sort of hates you now because I was trying to giggle quietly only...well, it was quiet! For me, at least. I can't help it if my stifled giggles made the dogs in the neighborhood howl. He should have let me just laugh out loud like a normal person. Anyway, I stayed up too late each night to just read a little bit more, just one more chapter (and OMG! I LOVE that each chapter is a different color! That is an idea made of pure genius!) and I finally finished (and my husband was able to get full nights of sleep instead of sleep punctured by softly scary giggles) and I'm keeping it to read again because I don't have to return it for another 8 days. Because that is how good it was, how well-put-together, how storylike.
So I've purchased the book. Two copies, actually. One for me, one for my sister. If you ever come to a book signing here, I will need to buy another one, as well, because I'll need to have a signed copy and a loaner copy because I would never let anyone borrow a signed copy of anything. Well, except for my sister. She can borrow my signed copies but won't need to, in this case, because she'll have her own copy already.
So, thank you. Thank you for making yourself look like a fish with stick legs and crippled raptor hands. Thank you for making me keep my husband awake at bedtime. Thank you for being open and honest and making me feel a little cry-ey but then turning that around so that I was laughing again and didn't have to feel sad for too, TOO long. And thank you for doing the blog-to-book thing 100% correctly.
Very sincerely,
Erica