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Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection by Nick Seluk

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Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection by The Awkward Yeti, aka Nick Seluk.

Published Date: 20th October 2015 by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Thank You to Net Galley for supping me with an electronic copy to read and review.

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From paying taxes and getting up for work to dancing with kittens and starting a band, readers everywhere will relate to the ongoing struggle between Heart and Brain.

Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection illustrates the relationship between the sensible Brain and its emotionally driven counterpart, the Heart.

Boasting more than one million page views per month, TheAwkwardYeti.com has become a web comic staple since its creation in 2012.

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In this perfect coffee table book, which I intend to by myself a hardcover version of, we get a series of comic strips illustrating the battle between our Brain and our Heart.

I found this book to be adorable, full of fun, relatable, amusing, totally huggable and even thought provoking at times. It made me want to chase butterflies, drink large amounts of coffee and read it again. Five Stars.

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Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/AwkwardYeti

Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/theawkwardyeti

Tumblr – http://larstheyeti.tumblr.com/

Reddit – http://www.reddit.com/user/awkwardyeti/end Yeti Collection

The Worrier’s Guide to Life by Gemma Correll

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The Worrier’s Guide to Life by Gemma Correll.

Pub Date: 26th May 2015 (Andrews McMeel Publishing).

I received a free ARC from Net Gallery in exchange for an honest review – Thank You.

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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.

My Thoughts mk3 Worriers of the world unite and go read this book.

I had a smile on my face the entire time I was reading this. The whole book is written and drawn in a delightfully humours way. The art work is adorable, bright and eye catching. I enjoyed the whole book but my favourite drawings were the Wheel of Insomnia, A map of the Introvert’s Heart, Mediocre Housekeeping, Real Life Horror Movies and Dating: The Ride.
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At times it felt like Gemma has seen inside my head. I sat down and read this in about an hour,  it’s the type of book you’d want on your coffee table to flip through time and time again (and a few of the comics could be good ice breakers for those who struggle with house visitors :-P). All in all it’s a quick fun read about modern westernised women’s problems, dealing with over thinking, social anxiety and the big bad world.

Four Stars

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Gemma is a cartoonist, writer and illustrator with illustration clients including Hallmark, The New York Times, Oxford University Press, Knock Knock, Chronicle Books and The Observer.

She’s the author of – among others – “A Cat’s Life” (Te Neues, 2012),  “A Pug’s Guide to Etiquette” (Dog N Bone, 2013) and “The Worrier’s Guide to Life” (Andrews McMeel, 2015). You can find out more about her books and comics here.

She publishes her “Four Eyes” cartoon at GoComics.com and at The Nib on Medium.com She also draws a monthly Skycats cartoon for the Emirates Airlines Open Skies magazine.

Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4633735.Gemma_Correll 

Website – http://www.gemmacorrell.com/ 

Twitter – https://twitter.com/gemmacorrell 

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/gemmacorrell

Tumblr – http://gemmacorrell.tumblr.com/