Am I Overthinking This

Especially these days I so appreciate the magic in the mundane. This book is filled with beautiful, playful and very smart illustrations that are often laugh aloud funny. They’re funny because they’re SO relatable and true! Michelle really is a genius and each chart is so thoughtful. It makes for a wonderful gift for yourself, your coffee table or for a friend!

This book is great! It's funny and cute and really helps me not take everything so seriously.

I pre-ordered this book as soon as it was announced. It promised to be funny and insightful. The book was delayed a few months, but ultimately it showed up. I tore into the package as soon as it arrived. The book is as colorful as it was advertised. The charts are a clever combination of household items and watercolors. They are quite creative. (I will upload some pictures in the next couple of weeks.) Funny and insightful, …, well, your mileage may vary. Michelle Rial, the author, is a middle-aged, female, parent, from California (LA area), who is on the progressive side of the political spectrum, a smidgen OCD, and a mild germ-o-phobe. (She lets us know through her humor in the book.) The more of those characteristics you share with her, the more likely the book is going to be funny to you. The less you share … There are 134 topics covered. Sixteen are middle-aged lady specific. At least twelve, are riffs on progressive values (not as in making fun of, but as in "do I need to worry about climate change?" showing a graph with a burnt out match implying that she must and "am I using too much plastic?") About a third could be described as "first world problems," e.g., "still or sparkling?", "should we get ice cream?", and "how do I make small talk?" The book is lovely, but I am going to be giving my copy to a colleague who has much more in common with the author. She will likely appreciate the book and find it quite funny.

I have had this book in my hands exactly 29 hours. I've managed to show it to several people and each one says, "This is me!", and then after seeing a few more pages, "she is brilliant". I kid you not, this is verbatim what each person says over and over again. So it's fun to read, fun to show people, and I've already ordered a few as gifts. Just another bit of entertainment; right? Well, there might be more to it. I thought about it and realized this is a lot more than just a fun book. These 101 pages capture what life is like in 2019; at least in most western countries with people of a certain age range. Most of it is timeless, but when to look it in entirety, it will be looked at decades from now at a snapshot of our time and how we all view the world, and . . . well, maybe overthink things sometimes ;-)

This book is hilarious. Almost too accurate for comfort at some points lol. A perfect gift for friends and family who love to overthink everything but who can laugh about it and who won't overthink receiving this as a gift ;)

This little collection of charts is creative and thought-provoking. I actually use it in my classroom to have conversations about ways to present data, and it's helpful to get students to stop stressing out about their previous experiences with charts. Since it's so different from the conventional XY graphs, they are more open to engaging with it. And once they trust that the information is silly, interesting, and/or relatable, I've had several students ask to keep thumbing through the book who ended up pouring over it for the duration of class. The bobby pin chart is my favorite, but the secret math literacy of the charts that I can use is really helpful!

Some graphs/charts are pure genius. Some are just filler. Great concept whose finer points might have just gone over my head.

I have this colorful, hilarious, and touching book on my coffee table. My guests always pick it up unprompted and start flipping through it. Eventually they’re cracking up or showing me charts that resonate with them. My mother came to visit and declared she’s going to give the book to all her friends this Christmas. It really is the perfect coffee table book or the perfect gift. It’s full of wisdom and humor, which is a tough combination to nail!

A fun way to look over the things you overthink in your everyday life that other people do too.

I'm an over-thinker. So much so that I often overthink whether I'm overthinking things. Naturally, when I found out about this wonderful book by Michelle Rial, I KNEW it was going to be for me. From food decisions to work decisions to life and love decisions, so many of these charts spoke to me. They made me laugh, they made me think, they're just awesome. I even showed this book to my grandparents and they LOVED it, and bought themselves a copy. There's truly something in here for everyone. And though a lot of the topics are lighthearted and fun, the last section had me surprisingly moved - dealing with deep topics and giving great insights (while matching seamlessly with the rest of the book). 10/10, would recommend.

Lecture

Portraits of one's brain - certainly the author's, definitely mine, probably yours too. Michelle Rial depicts anxiety at its most charming, colourful, and painfully accurate.

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