Synopsis:
If you're floundering in life, striking out in love, struggling to pay the rent, and worried about it all -- you're in luck! World Champion Worrier and Expert Insomniac Gemma Correll is here to assure you that it could be much, much worse.
In her hugely popular comic drawings, Gemma Correll dispenses dubious advice and unreliable information on life as she sees it, including The Dystopian Zodiac, Reward Stickers for Grown-Ups, Palm Reading for Millennials, and a Map of the Introvert's Heart. For all you fellow agonizers, fretters, and nervous wrecks, this book is for you. Read it and weep...with laughter
Review:
I got this ebook from Netgalley in return of an honest review.
I had no idea what to expect going into this, only that I knew the author's style would interest me, as I had been following her work for a while. I related to the title on a spiritual level, and took a kind of leap of faith by downloading it. I can't say I regret that decision, at all.
First of all, I need to officially acknowledge Gemma Correll's art and, most importantly, the way she is able to show her humour through it. The combination of the two, through subtle and not-so-subtle ways, shows how talented she is, as well as how connected she is with what she is drawing. She understands and knows very well what she's talking about and that shows in every page.
As a class A introvert, I was able to relate to every message and I was glad someone was able to understand it and do so in such a clear and appealing way. There was so much to see and, most importantly, laugh at, that we don't even realise we are nearing the end. That is how you know you are holding a great book.
From knowing exactly how my brain and heart works, to puting into images basically how a session of meditation works for me, Gemma Carroll got every detail, illustrating my life in a colourful biography. To me, this was a way of making something as serious as social anxiety understandable and funny, functioning, simultaneously, as a guide to someone who doesn't understand what it's like, and as comic relief to those of us who see their lives completely overwhelmed by it.
I applaud the author on this incredible, fast read... as I run to the nearest bookshop to buy more of her work.
