I’m so so SO excited to be doing a collab discussion today over the amazingly geeky story of Eliza And Her Monsters!
I have kidnapped Mish @ Chasing Faerytales (and I suggest you go follow her blog and twitter immediately because she is #FABULOUS) and we’re going to basically discuss, fangirl, and flail over this tome. We’ve set up the discussion in internet-chat-style in honour of all the glorious internet appreciation in Eliza And Her Monsters! Our “usernames” are also book references. Because we’re nerds.
It’s been like forever since I’ve done a collab so thank you x 100000 to Mish for coming over!
★★★★☆
Her story is a phenomenon. Her life is a disaster.
In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she’s LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try.
Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea’s biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile.
But when Eliza’s secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she’s built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.
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_FaeriesandMonsters_: I adored Francesca Zappia’s debut Made You Up – which is hands down one of my fav books ever – so I was so excited for Eliza and her Monsters. I was very much pleased to see that Eliza had similar vibes, yet was it’s own story. I adored this book, and now I can’t wait to read more of Zappia’s books! Did you feel that the book was similar to Made You Up?
~constellation_fury~ : I totally felt the same! I loved the similarity in styles, but the storyline was completely different, which I loved too. Although I confess Made You Up probably holds my heart still the most. <3
_FaeriesandMonsters_: Haha, that’s understandable! Made You Up was just so amazing! But I loved Eliza too, I guess the two stories are two leagues of their own. Like you said, the subject matter was so different, yet there was this similar vibe and I could totally imagine the main characters of the two books conversing in real life. They’re all precious cinnamon rolls for sure!
~constellation_fury~ : Cinnamon is RIGHT. I think one of the biggest things I love about Zappia’s books is how relatable the characters are. Like Eliza is basically the best representation of all we fangirling, internet-loving, geeks! Every time her parents told her to get off the internet and go outside, she groaned. And I was just like: hEY IT’S ME.
_FaeriesandMonsters_: OMG YES! Eliza was basically 14 year old me, and the similarity was so uncanny, I was shook! I loved how the book showed a different side of online personalities. The want for anonymity, the ability to live as this whole new person on the internet, and the constant struggle to not get too engrossed in our online lives that we ignore the real world around us, especially as a teen, was portrayed so perfectly!
_FaeriesandMonsters_: And her family was just so authentic! Her parents struggling to understand, while being proud, still being worried, her brothers were just the best!!!! I loved their involvement in the book, and the regret Eliza felt regarding how detached she is to her family, especially her brothers, made me almost guilty myself for giving so much prominence to my online life at times without spending family time!
~constellation_fury~ : I sooo agree. I also liked how it talked about the great parts of being really involved with an online life — but it also talked about the darker sides. I never felt preached at though! I loved the balance. And Eliza’s family was A+ for sure! I wish more YA books had healthy and nice families like this!
_FaeriesandMonsters_: Haha, I know how much you adore families in YA! It was refreshing for sure! And I agree about the balance as well! Certain things, like how we form a community around the world, how passion for something brings people together – anyone part of a fandom or has a significant online presence would definitely relate!
_FaeriesandMonsters_: And the characters themselves were wonderful! I love how adorably awkward the MCs are, and Eliza and Wallace are just precious. And I also loved how their mental health rep was handled!
~constellation_fury~ : YES. So much awkward. And no instalove too, which is super refreshing. I looove seeing characters become friends first and then reading it developing into shippable squishy feelings. Also they were really quite similar, both struggling with anxiety and depression, but in different ways! I think it was great to show how mental health can be such a spectrum.
_FaeriesandMonsters_: So true! I can give a certificate for the book’s rep, as a teen who has severe anxiety and has gone through depression, it was so authentic and real and sometimes so perfectly captured, it made me sob. Eliza’s depression – which is basically the monsters in the book symbolic of, which I LOVED!!! – was so real and I loved how art was her relief but still it was not foolproof or a complete escape, which again was so realistic. And both hers and Wallace’ anxiety was well dealt, and like you said, shown in different lights. I related to Eliza’s anxiety more, and I had to actually put down the book at a scene where she has a panic attack because it was too much to handle.
_FaeriesandMonsters_: The book was also definitely much darker than I expected. But it gave the book an intensity which I adored.
~constellation_fury~ : So so much intensity. Which gave it good pacing too…because I was always a bit nervous to see how everything would go (especially when everything was going sO nicely with Eliza and Wallace’s friendship/romance). EXCUSE ME WHILE I STRESS FOR THE CINNAMON CHILDREN. I also loved how they communicated a lot in writing. Which I think is something a lot of internet-creatures like us can relate to? Sometimes it’s easier to write out difficult things than to say them.
_FaeriesandMonsters_: I agree! The romance was so adorable and so much like a growing attraction between two awkward kids. I just loved how everything was awkward, period! Also yes for the writing communication! I talk a LOT, but I still feel much more comfortable writing down things, especially when it involves feelings.
~constellation_fury~ : One of my favourite things has to be, I admit, how many illustrations and art was included! (This author is wildly talented!!) I think it totally made the book stand apart from others, even if it had a slightly predictable storyline.
_FaeriesandMonsters_: YES! I totally didn’t know about the art, and it was just a pleasant surprise! The illustrations of the webcomic were stunning, and I think a special mention goes to the web comic itself! There were frequent snippets of illustrations and transcriptions, and I so badly wanted to read Monstrous Sea as full fledged novel or comic! It was so good and intriguing!!!
_FaeriesandMonsters_: Actually I loved the unique format throughout the book! There were forum chats, forum profiles of the MCs and their updates, and I am always a huge fan of format differentiation in books, and I adored it!
~constellation_fury~ : The unique formatting won me over SO fast!! And also made me super long for the actual Monstrous Sea comic too. (Kind of like Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell turned into Carry On!) And the emails and message chats were some of my favourites because of the banter. It’s epic how complex and alive all the characters felt, even the ones we only “met” over a few lines of internet chats!
_FaeriesandMonsters_: Yes! Emmy and Max, had so little screen time, and we literally only know them from snippets of chats, yet I adored them, and same goes to most of the side characters!
~constellation_fury~ : Just reason #9837 why Francesca Zappia is an AMAZING writer.
_FaeriesandMonsters_: That she is! She’s definitely an auto-buy author from now on. I can’t wait to see what else she might write in the future!
_FaeriesandMonsters_: All the pros aside, anything you didn’t like about the book?
~constellation_fury~ : Literally my only complaint is that I’ve read a few other books like it (notably Geekerella and Radio Silence) so it was a bit predictable to me. How about you?
_FaeriesandMonsters_: I have to agree on the predictable aspect! But that’s one of the reasons why the story is so special I guess, plotwise it was pretty normal, but the characters, and the writing and themes made it a spectacular tale!
_FaeriesandMonsters_: Tbh, I am thinking. Overall maybe I’ll give the book a 4.5? But I can’t pinpoint anything I didn’t like. Nah, this book was just so good, I guess, and it gave me all the feels for me to pick apart anything! 🙂
~constellation_fury~ : Sneaky book…being too relatably awesome that we’re hopelessly destined to do nothing but LOVE IT. I’d definitely give it 4.5 too!
_FaeriesandMonsters_: : 5 star books are too much of rare unicorns for both of us, huh? 🙂
~constellation_fury~ : We’re picky bookworms! (But to be fair, we have GREAT taste in books.)
_FaeriesandMonsters_: Since I know we’re practically book twins, I agree with that statement 😀
~constellation_fury~ : #BookTwinsFTW
_FaeriesandMonsters_: ( P.S – Reason no #45892 that Mish is the best :))
_FaeriesandMonsters_: I am so glad we got to read the book together!
~constellation_fury~ : SAME. It’s been so fun, Mish! Thanks for coming over to my blog too. Reason no #45893 why Mish is the best. ;D ;D
_FaeriesandMonsters_: Thanks for having me over! All in all, Cait and I wholeheartedly recommend Eliza and her Monsters, especially if you are bookworms who adored Made You Up like us! Hopefully I can be back sometime with another amazing book discussion! <333
~constellation_fury~ : Absolutely yes! I shall kidnap you for many more buddy-reads in the future!! And until then we’ll just force everyone to read and love Eliza And Her Monsters. Deal? 😀
_FaeriesandMonsters_: Aye Captain!
Okay so collab posts are AWESOME and I need to do more of them.
Do I hear a yes from you fiends of the darkness??! Let me know!
And all the thanks to the marvellous Mish for coming to visit meeeeee. See? So much proof that internet friends are BEST. (Also I get this nerdy sort of joy that we can have friends on opposite sides of the world and put together bookish posts and IT’S JUST SUPER COOL.)
have you read Eliza And Her Monsters?!? are you planning to? do you like books with illustrations? and do you have a secret, or just different, identity online? do you think internet-friends are as important as in-the-flesh-friends?? can you live with just one, or do you need both? LET’S CHAT!!
(And don’t forget to go follow Mish’s blog!!)
OMG! I had fun reading your conversation! Wondering where did you talk? ~constellation_fury~ is such cute name 😀
I’m so glad you liked it, Hana!! We did the chat through google docs! 😀 It was super fun!
I read this last month, and really enjoyed it, similarities to Radio Silence aside. I don’t really participate in fandom that much, not to the extent these characters do but I still loved how that was explored. I do like illustrations! I guess I would say that my identity onlie isn’t all of me, there are still parts of myself that I don’t put out there, but I’m not defferent. I do think that internet friends are important, in a different way to irl friends. I don’t really knwow if I ‘need’ both, that’s kind of hard to say, but bot are valuable to me. And I loved this collab. Now I really want to do a collab with you one day haha.
It was sooo similar to Radio Silence, right?!? It was weird.😂 Great minds think alike obviously!
But the illustrations just made it stand out SO MUCH aHHH!!!
And omg we should definitely figure out a collab to do someday, Shanti! THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
welll, I kind of- OOH I AM VERY CURIOUS! VERY CURIOUS AND DEFINITELY NOT PREPARED!!! 😀 😀 😀
anyway, I KIND of do, because this name is fake. but person wise, I’m just me but not shy. in the real world I’m the silent one in the corner reading a book, until I know you and show my colors as a crazy weirdo. 😛
Most crazily, ~Olive
OH GOOD. I HOPE OU LIKE IT, OLIVE.😂
And I’m super shy IRL so I totally relate!!😂
OMIGOSH THAT P.S ABOUT ANOTHER COLLAB. I NEED TOMORROW FAST!
Was it super nice seeing you do a collab for some reason? YESSS I LOVVVED this collab! I’m actually going to read this book this summer and I AM SO EXCITED. Internet, geekiness, I AM SO IN.
And I didn’t know it was uniquely formatted? I LOVEE those types of books! THEY STEAL MY SOUL. And those little pictures already have my eyeballs watering XD
I definitely have a wittier and awesome personality online which I think is great! I like how you have your own amount of time to reply to something and you can meet so many different people and opinions. It’s awesome and in so many ways better than real life. Not saying that talking face to face is bad but for bookworms…well.
I have SO MANY internet-friends (AHEM YOUU CAIITTT) but like real close ones as well that are even closer than people I have IRL and it’s scary thinking that I’m talking to someone all the way In Texas and being totally calm about it and acting like we are best chums WHEN WE OBVIOUSLY ARE but I never knew the interweb could be so interactive? Though in-the-flesh people are important! I don’t think I’d have the same relationship with my IRL friends over the internet?
AWW I’M GLAD YOU LIKED IT! *flails* I need to do more collabs for sure.😂 And I had no idea this book was uniquely formatted before I got it too, so that was like the BEST surprise. <3
Haha, I'm the same, tbh.😂 I have like 2 facial expressions IRL...so thank you, emojis for your helpful way of communicating feelings.😂 And the chance to take your time to type out an answer instead of blurting it without thought it so good imo. I love it.
INTERNET FRIENDS ARE SO GREAT THOUGH. <3 I mean, I loved doing this collab with Mish and how I'm in Australia and she's in Sri Lanka! I MEAN, HOW COOL IS THE INTERNET.
There`s so much hype about this book and I had no idea how much of it was real, but you totally convinced me to get this book. I am a bookworm, I am awkward, this is the book for me.
Really?!? I hadn’t seen ANY hype for it or anyone reading it.😂😂 But I’m glad I convinced you!!
Eliza and Her Monster included on owlcrate may box so I saw it a lot on my feed (meaning my feed consist bookstagrammer who owlcrate subscriber/bookstagrammer)
Stories within stories are always an interesting concept. I hadn’t heard of this story before but for some reason I want to read Monstrous Sea more than I want to read Eliza and her Monsters? Hm.
I like having internet friends, but I think I would go crazy w/out IRL friends….partly because (a) I already suck at names and when your name is filled with dashes and numbers that makes it 200% harder for me to remember (b) when your name doesn’t have a face that makes it 300% harder to remember (boots are okay too), and (c) I just really need faces and voices in my life? One time when I was at college I got super stressed out and upset and I just really needed to hear my best friend’s voice…I tried chatting her online and it just made me more upset. I ended up calling her and the conversation went something like this:
Her: Hello?
Me: Ah yes thank you hello I just really needed to hear your voice but that’s good I’m okay now.
Her: Uh….okay….
That was the same year I would mope around my dorm until my roommate came back even if we both had work to do (I had no idea I was this needy before?) Also I’m quite lazy in my social life and if I’m not forced to encounter someone it’s possible I’ll forget of their existence. So…yeah.
Internet friends are great though. I do love the fan communities, especially when it comes to fanfic and theorizing, because sometimes my IRL friends aren’t into the same nerdy stuff as I am, and I need to find my people. 🙂
Hahah! I want to read Monstrous Sea SO badly now too!! But Eliza was so relatable <3 the book is just gloriousness!
And omg I hear you with the names.😂 I can barely remember my family's names ahhaha. And I also connect people to like their blogs...so maybe if IRL people just had like their URLs printed on their shirts? That would be super helpful. *nods*
But that's awesome you love in-the-physical friends too!! I always adore having my little sister around. We text a lot, but it's definitely more epic sometimes to chat in-person.😂
I need to read this. I’m not in any fandoms, but I’m curious about the whole webcomic/fandom thing in the book. Fun post!
It worked SO well in the book!! I wanted to read the whole webcomic afterwards though.😂 If oooonly it existed!
Amazing post! I loved it! Now I 1000% need to read Eliza & her Monsters! You guys have convinced me 💕
Ahhh SO glad you liked it, Lissa!! AND THIS BOOK CALLS TO YOU.
It definitely does!!
OH YASSS I loved this book so much.Everything about this book seems honest and relatable.I haven’t read Made You Up yet but this book convinced me to pick that up too.I loved Emmy and Max so much and I wish we could have seen more of them.Also YES to more collabs because this one was so much fun to read 🙂
Emma and Max were SO awesome. <3 Tbh I want to know all about Emmy, that smol engineering genius!!
That cover is ADORABLE! And you mentioned illustrations so I’M IN! I’m gonna have to add this one to my TBR!
I know right?!? Illustrations always equal me going “I NEED THIS 100% MORE NOW.”😂
You guys are adorable, and I love this joint review. I pictured you two at a cafe chatting about this book when I was reading this post. I’m so glad you guys love this book, it’s been on my TBR for a while but I may just have to push it to the top now.
Thanks for sharing!
Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
AWw, that’s the best visual!! (If only!! 😂) It was so so fun to do a collab like this so we’ll definitely have to make it a reoccurring thing. :’) And YES. I hope you do read Eliza and her Monsters soon! IT’S TOO UNDERRATED.
Flurg. I love this!! And the chat is so clever I cry 😭 And now I REALLY need to read this booooook!!! So many relatable things I die!!
IT IS THE MOST RELATABLE OF ALL BOOKS. *hugs it*
I wanted this book just for the cover. So excited that it has illustrations.
THE ART IS SO INCREDIBLE. 😍😍
I love this! Thanks for sharing and love the collaboration.
Laila
http://www.lailabee.blogspot.co.uk
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! *flails happily*
I loved this post! The unique format made it really fun to read. I haven’t read eliza and her monsters, but reading this made me move it up higher on my tbr. It sounds great! I usually really like books with interesting formatting or illustrations (fangirl, i am princess x, the book thief, hugo cabret.)
-Annie @ Blossoms and Bullet Journals
Aww, thanks, Annie! We had SUCH fun putting it together!! And I definitely hope you try it sometime soon. 😀 I think the unique formatting truly does help it stand out. :’)
Oh I LOVE this!! My copy should arrive any day soon. And I didn’t realise it had pictures??? Heck yes. As for my identity online, it’s definitely more…polite than my real self. I blame it on being Australian.
I know right?!? I was so surprised at the pictures and it made it 1000 x better.😂 Voting for illustrations in ALL BOOKS.
Whyyyyy do you keep adding more books to my TBR?! 😀 I really want to read this now!
Personally my non-internet friends are also nerdy bookworms, so I’m lucky there, but I think having internet friends is also important.
Also, you now have me REALLY curious…
BECAUSE I’M HERE TO BE KIND TO YOUR TBR LIKE THAT.😂Also that is intensely awesome you have non-internet friends who love books too. You have scored well. :’)
OMG loving this review!! 🙂 🙂 I have one such conversation review coming up as I buddy read Six of Crows with an internet friend 😀 Also omg Eliza and her Monsters are taking the world with storm and I can’t wait to read it! I LOVE books with illustrationg and I need all the friends!!! Real life friends, internet friends AND fictional friends!! 😛 Also sorry again for being pretty MIA Cait! I started postgrad and #adulting is SO HARD AND EXHAUSTING!! I have two projects, 3 assignments and a million tests coming up 🙁 But I still have time for books 😛
Oh that’s awesome you’ve got a collab with 6 buddy-readers! That would’ve been quite the read, right?!?? ALSO SO GLAD YOU FINALLY READ SIX OF CROW. *shouts happily from the rooftops*
(Omg you don’t need to be sorry!! Although I have missed you.💕 But good luck with the exams and assignments!)
No 😛 😛 I read SIX of Crows with ONE internet friend 😛 Six people would have been crazy! The biggest buddy read I’ve done had 3 of us in total! AND YES THE DREGS ARE BAE!!!!
Thank you! I’ll need a boatload of luck 😛
OMG I’M SO ASHAMED.😂😂I swear I can’t even read.
From now on I’m going to have to call it One Of Crows.😂😂
I totally loved Eliza and her monsters… SO RELATABLE.! I still need the read Made you up… Is it good? Or perfect?
Haha, YES. I mean, we’re both here raving about Made You Up, so that’s pretty much the answer.😂
I really liked the format of this collab. I shall be looking forward to more collabs in the future!
AHH THANKS, GRACE! I definitely want to do more of these in the future!!
I have not yet had the chance to read Eliza And Her Monsters but I really want to, especially because Made You Up was so awesome! I am hoping it comes out in PB soon but if not, i’ll just cave and buy the HC because it is too gorgeous to pass up. But totally not the point – the point is I am so glad you two enjoyed this and aha this was such a creative post Cait. <3 Thanks for sharing 🙂
Aww, thanks, Anisha!! I’m so glad you liked reading it. *twirls happily* And the hardcover IS super gorgeous. They’ve designed it so well. 😍
THIS IS SUCH A CREATIVE IDEA!!! And I’m so proud of myself for actually having read this. Eliza and Wallace are such amazing, relatable, well-represented characters and I really really loved them. The art in the book definitely added a lot to it — I really wished we could see Monstrous Sea’s story alongside Eliza and Wallace’s. And AGHAHGHAG THE CHATS WERE SO SASSY AND AMAZING AND I LOVED THEM SO MUCH! This book was really well-written — in diversity, in relatability, and so much more! Love this collab review! <3
I’M SO GLAD YOU LIKED THE POST!! And omg I’m proud of me for reading this now instead of 93 years after it came out.😂
Wouldn’t it be awesome to be actually able to read it as a webcomic though?!? WISHES.
My two favorite bloggers! <3 This is such an awesome collaboration post! I'm so glad you both enjoyed this so much. Made You Up was absolutely phenomenal so I’m honestly not surprised. 🙂 Thanks for sharing and, as always, fabulous post! xx
Awww, ZOE. YOU’RE SO LOVELY!! <3 And I'm so glad you liked our discussion. Also *whispers* you muuuust read this one!!
Who is this new person you have made a collab with? She seems amazing! Should check her out ;P
BUT HONESTLY, THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!! We should do something like this again. And the chat came out even more impressive when set up like this! <33
I KNOW RIGHT?!? THIS MISH IS A BIT FABULOUS. I may have to keep her.😂
I definitely want to read this! I was actually going to go to the launch party for Eliza & Her Monsters, as it was being held at a bookstore around half an hour from me. But I confused myself on the dates, and thought it was on a weekend, when it was actually a weekday. Curses on being easily confused! And there are hardly ever any launch parties in my neck of the woods, so I was doubly sad. =/
Gah, I’m sorry you missed the launch party! If it makes you feel better I ALWAYS screw up release dates. 😭 I bought midnight showing movie tickets once and got the wrong day.😂😂
Oh my god, I love this style of review! You two should definitely do it more often! I’ve wanted to read Eliza and her Monsters since I first heard about it, but I didn’t realise it dealt with mental illness, too! Will need to get my hands on it even more now. Also love that it also includes extracts from the webcomic in it, too, that’s so cool!
(If you enjoyed this element of the book, there’s another book you may enjoy, Thornhill by Pam Syms. It tells two parallel stories alternately, one present day (2016) about Ella, who moves to a new house, and sees a girl in the window of the abandoned Thornhill Institute nearby and wants to befriend her, and another story set in 1982, with Mary telling us what happened at the Institute. 1982 is told through Mary’s diary entries, and 2016 is told solely through illustrations – no text at all. I received a copy for review, though I haven’t read it yet. But it looks so good! Really eerie and mysterious!)
I don’t mind books with illustrations, as long as it adds to the story. I like to imagine things myself though, so I don’t like anything too illustrated. I’m not really a fan of comics/graphic novels, I must admit.
I used to have a different identity online when I was younger. It was Zanthia – the name of a character in a computer game called Kyrandia; she’s a witch, and I thought she was just so cool! And I loved her name. And all my in-the-flesh friends started off as internet friends, so yes, they are absolutely just as important. Due to crap I went through when I was younger, I didn’t really go out much as a teenager, so all my socialising was done online, on fan forums and such. As I got older, I made friends via bands’ forums lot of those friends became my closest friends who I met up with whenever I was able. All of my very best friends started off as someone I would chat to online. I can’t emphasise the importance of those friendships. Without them, I’d have felt so alone (I had my friends from school, and they were cool, but they weren’t exactly “my people” if that makes sense. They didn’t get me as much as my online-turned-real-life friends).
Loved the review, ladies! So excited to read this!
YAYYYY I’M SO GLAD, JO!! It was so fun to do and just to shake things up a bit. *flails happily* And I had NO idea it had pictures and was all about anxiety too <3 So that was like a double surprise!
I should check out that Thornhill! I've also heard of a book and the title is failing me...Afterworlds? By Scott Westerfeld? ANYWAY. I think it's about like the girl in a book and the girl WRITING the book which is cool.
And that's really cool you started off anonymous online! I kind of wish I had a screen name sometimes, tbh. But I am sad you had a bad childhood. 🙁 But I'm really glad you found the internet and supportive/great people!!
Loved the conversational post between you two. I’m dying to read Eliza and Her Monsters (from the title I picture a tiny child surrounded by friendly beasts protecting her from the world, though the synopsis sounds good too, I guess XD).
Heyyyy a tiny child protected by friendly beasts would be amazing too. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. (I love that book omg.)
~constellation_fury~ is my new favourite thing, though.
Totally fun to read! Thank you!
Aiii-I got to get the book now! Thanks for the review <3
I hope you love it if you get a chance to read it!!
Definitely planning on reading this one <3
I do enjoy books with illustrations… really I like books that do something a bit different, period. (Ever read "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" ? such fun. )
I used to have a quasi secret identity online, but I gave up the anonymity. I needed the anonymity more when I was in school… and as I got older I just embraced all the bits of myself and let it be a part of the package (specifically, I dated a guy who looked down on the online life part of me and I realized that it was easier to just merge both bits of me so it was all on the table right off..)
Are internet friends as important as in life friends? 100%! Honestly, a large proportion of my "real life" friends started at internet friends. I honestly don't think I could live with just one… I literally wouldn't know anyone outside of the people I work with if I didn't make friends online when I moved to Newfoundland. And as much as I enjoy internet friends, I can't imagine my life without the ones who have become in the flesh friends… I am equally satisfied with both – I check in with both before I settle in with my bed time book 🙂
(true story: I met a girl at a party some months after I moved to NL and had only a couple friends, and liked her, but I was far to shy to be like "hi, stranger! i like your hair!"… overheard she had a blog. So i followed her blog, and I was feeling heartsick one night for the friends I left behind when I moved… so I emailed her telling her I loved her blog, and long story short we are now actual in flesh besties and she has even lived with me when she was somewhat homeless. )
That’s so great that you have both IRL and online friends!! It’s probably healthy to have both anyway hhhhahah.😂 ahem. Also that is the SWEETEST blogging/friendship story ever!!
I haven’t read it yet, but I have a copy and cannot wait to dig in! I’m super excited for the pictures in the book, and loved the format of this review/discussion.
I also am in need of more collabs, so if you ever want to do one, let me know!
Yay that could be fun!😂
I love the format of this discussion! 😀 It was a lot of fun to read. I need Eliza and her Monsters SO BADLY. I absolutely loved Made You Up and this one sounds so good. I’m a sucker for books within books, and this one has art?? And unique formatting? SIGN ME UP