Good stuff I have read recently (some repeated from e-mail):
Lucy Knisley's Relish and French Milk. The latter is a travel diary so not as focused and polished as Relish, but it's still good. Relish is very good. (It's a memoir mostly about food, what's not to like?)
Jennifer 8. Lee's The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.
Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria. Secondary-world fantasy, with a map yet. But not at all like what that is probably making you think of. It has a few minor things I would characterize as first-novel issues, but nothing that really hurt my enjoyment of it.
Jenny Lawson's Let's Pretend This Never Happened. This is relevant to your interests, and since you like Allie Brosh's childhood stories on Hyperbole and a Half I think you would like this, or at least large chunks of it.
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Lucy Knisley's Relish and French Milk. The latter is a travel diary so not as focused and polished as Relish, but it's still good. Relish is very good. (It's a memoir mostly about food, what's not to like?)
Jennifer 8. Lee's The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.
Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria. Secondary-world fantasy, with a map yet. But not at all like what that is probably making you think of. It has a few minor things I would characterize as first-novel issues, but nothing that really hurt my enjoyment of it.
Jenny Lawson's Let's Pretend This Never Happened. This is relevant to your interests, and since you like Allie Brosh's childhood stories on Hyperbole and a Half I think you would like this, or at least large chunks of it.