It's All Absolutely Fine: Life Is Complicated So I've Drawn It Instead
By Ruby Elliot
4/5
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About this ebook
Building on Rubyetc's huge online presence, It's All Absolutely Fine includes mostly new material, both written and illustrated, and is inspirational, empowering, and entertaining. Hope and tenacity abound in this book that is as heartening as it is hilarious.
*Voted onto the 2018 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS list by the American Library Association's YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association)
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Reviews for It's All Absolutely Fine
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was too real!! Ruby sections this book off by talking about the different mental health issues she's encountered--deperession, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, anxiety, body image issues, and more. Although I haven't had same extent of experiences, I still think Ruby's art perfectly captured ironic and satirical stress of the everyday situations that arrive with mental illness.
Sometimes the art could be a bit too scribbly and hard to read, but that was my only real complaint. I screenshotted sooo many pages to send to my friends, and I think this book has a meaningful message next to some hilarious comics and images. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5humor, comics / mental health (depression, manic depression, eating disorders, self harm and more)
Funny but also serious. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a bust out laugh! I loved it, Ruby Elliot very accurately portrays all the emotions and inner voices that accompany depression and anxiety. I found myself identifying myself almost on every page. This was a much-needed publication for those struggling to understand what family and friends or even themselves may be going through.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I received this book through NetGalley. Because it was under the "comics and graphic novels" category, and because of the description, I thought this was going to be a humor book. Instead, it is about the author's mental illness. I felt like I left this book with a better understanding of what it feels like to live with mental illness. I was a little disappointed with the cartoons. I was hoping they would be more funny than they were. A few were good, the rest were kind of meh to me.
I understand Ruby Elliot has an online following. So read if you are a fan. If you haven't heard of her, then read at your own risk.
I received a free ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Book preview
It's All Absolutely Fine - Ruby Elliot
For Nina and Harry and Miranda, just . . . yes?
For Mum and Dad, who I’ve known pretty much all my life and have,
despite everything, always kept the house filled with so much laughter and nuttiness and love and pens. You’re alright I guess.
And also for Sam, who we miss very much.
1 It’s a Beautiful Day for Don’t
2 Excuse Me While I Ruin Everything Accidentally on Purpose
3 So, How Are You Feeling Today?
4 Lost: Sense of Self
5 I’ve Got a Lot on My Plate
6 Ah, Face, We Meet Again
7 I’m an Adult I’m a Groan-Up
8 We’re All Absolutely Fine
Hello, my name is Ruby and that’s about as far as I can get before I start worrying about what to say next. To give you a bit of context, here are some other names I go by:
So yes, I’m a pretty versatile disaster as you can see. What I’ve essentially done for this book is draw about the stuff that goes on in my head, and stuff that goes on outside of my head, and how those things mush together in a bit of a strange and confusing way. They are drawings about me, but I hope that some of them may be about you, too. And if not, that’s fine; the book will work nicely as a sort of deluxe rectangular coaster. Everyone’s a winner.
Iam sitting on the floor next to the bed waiting for nothing to happen. The blinds are closed because I cannot stand the light and the way it makes people want to be outside doing talking and laughing and interesting things with their lives. The last activity I did was dragging myself on all fours, slug-like, to the kitchen and sprinkling sugar straight out of the bag onto a piece of old bread, then standing by the counter cramming it into my face like I was a VHS on fast-forward. If I don’t feel real then why would I bother feeding myself as if I were? I’ve been wearing the same pajamas for years, centuries, well, a week really but the level of stale is probably sufficient for them to be sealed in a glass case and put on one of those little plinths in a museum. I imagine tour guides pointing out the various unidentifiable stains (a mixture of snot, tears, and canned soup) to a group of confused tourists taking polite photos — " And here we have a garment dating back to a four-year-long