REVIEW: Adulthood Is a Myth by Sarah Andersen

 5/5 stars

A popular webcomic captures early female adulthood brilliantly, making for an excellent, quick read and gifting opportunity.

Judging by the website that provides the source material for Andersen’s book, the Sarah’s Scribbles webcomic appears to have started four years ago. I finished reading the book in about an hour and it doesn’t take long to see why her illustrations have been so popular. She covers plenty of topics facing modern millennials. Andersen describes the comics as semi-autobiographical and, as a result, they feature her character alongside her friends and pets.

I spent the hour laughing in bed while reading. It is a quick, refreshing, and instant feel-good read that showed me I’m not alone in being terrible at adulting. She somehow tackles life’s annoyances while making me giggle repeatedly. Andersen is just a bit younger than I am, and I related to her insecurities, womanly irritations (periods, clothes, body hair, etc.), introversion, and anxiety surrounding adult pressures. She just GETS it and I immediately wanted to gift this book to EVERYONE. I lack the commitment required to read online comics on a regular basis, but I would read every collection in book form that Sarah Andersen publishes.

Release Date: March 8, 2016 (Andrews McMeel Publishing)