ashleyholstrom's Reviews (1.38k)

Jen Gotch, founder of the fab lifestyle brand ban.do, has struggled with mental illness for much of her life. But it hasn’t stopped her from following her dreams. Her first diagnosis led to her journey toward awareness and success—it was because of her mental illnesses that she was able to rock her creativity, after all. The Upside of Being Down is a wonderful, relatable, and funny book that’s part self-help and part memoir.

From 10 Funny Self-Help Books to Rock Your World at Book Riot.

This may be the best of Sex Criminals. Fraction and Zdarsky have always been good about being educational and nonjudgmental in this series, but this one wins extra prizes for approaching asexuality as it should be — completely normal, not weird. (Volume 2 was excellent for some sweet gynecological information.) The plot kind of meanders through this volume, but it’s still a fun ride.

From the Best Comics We Read in November 2016 at Book Riot.

Slow burn of the CENTURY.

Mandatory reading/listening for every human.

It is so important. Read it. Listen to the TED Talk. Listen to the bits played in that Beyonce album. And then do something.

Part of my not-so-accidental month of feminist reading at Book Riot.

A fellow Book Rioter said they felt "spoiled by honesty" in Roxane Gay's Hunger. And that's the only way I can describe reading it.