Sarah AndersenBig Mushy Happy Lump: A Sarah's Scribbles Collection (Volume 2)

So the thing about Sarah Anderson and her Scribbles is that she feels small and insecure and flawed, and she takes all that and puts it into an adorable comic, and those of us who can’t express ourselves as well as she can all look at those comics and see ourselves. Big Mushy Happy Lump is filled with these moments, of honesty and clarity and irony and self-consciousness.These comics take on a lot of different topics, like a self-esteem roller coaster, the importance of female friends, procrastination, stuffing your feelings, cats, flirting, periods, sexual harassment, nightmares of high school, and social anxiety. The comics are spirited, showing her willingness to make herself the butt of a joke and her skill at self-expression. And she’s just funny.In this book, she talks about her struggles in social situations and how sometimes she finds being around others exhausting. Introverts can certainly relate to that, and to understand the opposite of that, when we pull away so far we let ourselves get isolated. The struggle is real, and Anderson opens up about trying to find that balance between the anxiety of being around too many people and the depression of being alone too much.She also talks about bonding with a kitten and learning why the internet loves cats the ways it does and how she is a serial sweater stealer.I love to reach for a Sarah’s Scribbles book when I need a pick-me-up, when I want some company to be alone, when I want someone to be weird with, and when I want to smile. Big Mushy Happy Lump is a sweet reminder to be kinder to myself, to take risks, and to be strange whenever possible.

Sarah’s second batch of her comics based on more of her hilarious personal issues continue to bring lots of amusement, but the short stories do add something new. <b>A- (91%/Excellent)</b>

These are great. It starts with one-page comics. You’ve probably seen the meme from one of them. She goes from store to store buying whatever’s on sale, the cheapest brand, then goes to the bookstore (or whatever hobby someone chooses to adapt the strip to) and throws open a coat tossing cash everywhere. If you liked that meme, you’ll like this book. The humor is consistently like that. She sort of gives a nod to it in one of the strips.It then moves into running jokes that carry over for a few strips. You can read the first alone, but the later ones start to depend on the ones that come before. There is a run with a character called OverThinking that is awesome. I love the “I Don’t Care” superhero.I love how relatable this book is. As an introvert who spends way too much time stressing about sending work emails that amount to “here is the exact thing you ask for” I relate to this hard. She’s amazing.

The drawing are so cute and funny!

Sarah Andersen writes and illustrates the best relateable humor for adults, specifically millenials. She illustrates social anxiety to a tea. When demonstrating over-thinking, I had to laugh. As a shy adult with very low self-esteem, she presents situations everyone has been in and makes you laugh about them. I loved the inclusion of her personal essays taken from her real-life experiences with anxiety. Her bits on relationships, both in groups and in a romantic way were cute, yet again made you laugh. Having family members with social anxiety, I can see him/her in these strips and it actually helped me to understand their actions just a bit more. I am not sure if they would appreciate me giving them this book or not. It might make them laugh at themselves. the illustrations are great. They are scribbles, but the emotions are so easy to see. I love that Sarah is able to share all this with her readers. Of course the title itself says to much. To just cover up, dress however you want and me a Mushy Happy Lump with no expectations would be wonderful for many people even for short periods of time, but for someone with Social Anxiety, it would be the best. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley.

Just like her previous book, "Adulthood is a myth", Sarah Andersen's new compilation of comics strikes right into my socially awkward heart. Her strips are as cute as they're funny, and easily relatable for people like me (though they're bound to be quite more relatable if you're a woman). Also, the cover is once again fuzzy, which I find ridiculously neat.The main difference between this book and the last one is that somewhere mid-point the comics start being more related to each other, falling into certain categories (such as Sarah's love for cats or her confessions about sweater thieving), and including her narration outside the strips. This is neither better nor worse than the previous approach, it's just different, but it's understandable for you to feel a bit down if you preferred the more randomized format of the previous book (or the previous section of the current book).Now go and order a dozen of these and spread them among all your friends and family.

This is a book I read it it entertains me because it is quite funny

I'm giving 4 stars because i think that her cartoon are awesome! I really relate to her! The only thing that i didn't likeis that i was hopping to see brand new cartoon! But a ñotof them ihave seen it published on Facebook so i'm feeñing like a wanted more!Something that was very nice is the tpuch of her from the middle of thebook, because she tell a little story of herand represent it with her draws... I feel it more personal and jelps you to understand her as a person!I think should be read by people who is in it's twenties and early thirties! :) It's fun

Really funny comics by Sarah Anderson!

Nothing more to say. If you loved Sarah Andersen's works online, you'll love this second collection of them! Bonus content besides online drawings: short illustrated chapters about being introverted, her cat and her obsession with sweaters. High quality content.Per gli utenti italiani: ho acquistato consapevolmente l'edizione originale in lingua inglese per preferenza personale, ma le differenze non sono significative. Specifico tuttavia che le edizioni italiane dei 3 volumi hanno misure leggermente diverse, per cui soltanto in lingua inglese i 3 volumi sono alti uguali.

Entrega exatamente o que lemos aqui e ali nos painéis individuais. O melhor da autora.

Reconozco que, a pesar de que “Adulthood is a myth” me encantó, tenía mis reservas con este segundo libro. Es decir, ¿cuántas posibilidades había de que me sintiera, de nuevo, tan identificada con lo que se dibujaba en Sarah’s Scribbles? Bueno, pues fue abrir la primera página, cerrar el libro, y llevarlo al mostrador de la librería para pagarlo y traérmelo a casa.Y no fueron solamente las primeras viñetas; este libro tiene algunas de mis escenas favoritas, sin lugar a dudas. Las relacionadas con la postergación, el café, los libros, el instituto, la regla y los mensajes incomprensibles de tu cerebro son, sencillamente, fantásticas.Además, aquí usa más recursos estilísticos que dan más vida a determinadas situaciones, como el desenfoque ante el terror de un escarabajo volador, por citar un ejemplo. La portada, esta vez con tonos azules, mantiene su relieve y aterciopelado en la edición inglesa.Muy recomendable e, increíblemente, “Big mushy happy lump” es, pera mí, mejor que el anterior.

Wahnsinn in wie vielen Comic Strips man sich hier widerfindet. Sarah Andersson trifft hier voll ins Schwarze und beschreibt bzw. zeichnet hier auf witzige Weise, wie es sicher vielen von uns in diesem Situationen geht. Alles sehr erheiternt und beruhigend, dass es auch anderen in der selben Situation genauso geht. xDIch wünschte es gäbe mehr Bücher dieser Serie, als die 3.Das Geld 100%ig wert!(Ich habe mir die Variante im Original, also auf Englisch gekauft und fand diese einen Tick besser. Manchmal geht bei der Übersetzung etwas der Witz verloren)