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My Holiday Pick - Hyperbole And A Half by Allie Brosh

Please buy the book at your local bookstore if you can - or from Allie Brosh's blog! There are many gifts you can give this holiday season, but my pick is a warmly colored book of highly idiosyncratic cartoons, Hyperbole And A Half , by Allie Brosh, whose autobiographical blog of the same name has featured on this blog at least a couple of times in the past. Brosh, who appears in the cartoons as a funny squiggly creature with big eyes and stick limbs, examines her life with enormous honesty and humor, ranging from everyday situations that we all recognize to poignant childhood memories and an exploration of her devastating experience of serious depression. Allie Brosh: "It's me on the inside." In an interview with Terry Gross for NPR's Fresh Air , Brosh explained how she came to draw herself as a strange tube-like being with a pointy triangle for a ponytail: "The reason I draw myself this way is that I feel that this absurd squiggly thin