" (April Winchell) A quick look at the "website books" tag shows that I'm not usually a fan of books made out of websites. Happily, "Regretsy" is the exception to the rule. Whereas, say, "Stuff On My Cat: The Book" just throws a bunch of pictures in between two covers and calls it a day, this book actually has, you know, some new, original writing in it - imagine that. It's almost like someone put work into this book!
The title is based off a crafting site called "Etsy", which offers an incredible array of DIY crafts for sale, ranging from a $85 painting of a corndog inside the outline of a plane (with the explination "Reminds me of the time I flew to New York and had a corndog") to my personal favorite, "A Portrait of a Horse as a Young Man", a painting of a mad-looking horse with the word SHIT written over it in red text. These are roundly mocked by the author, which is no small feat; What do you even say to someone charging $50 for a print of a bowl of brussel sprouts and doll heads?
The crafts are organized into chapters - art, vulvacraft (K. Ham's personal favorite), christmas, and the all-inclusive WTF category. Before each chapter is a introduction that contains more text and amusement than I got from both "Stuff On My Cat: The Book" and "Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle", so take that for what it's worth.
With all that being said, the only caveat is that this is a short book. - I knocked it out in under an hour, but only because I couldn't put it down.
Grade: A-
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