This is great fun. If you know and love his other books then this is for you. If you are hoping for great cake recipes ... try it anyway.

This is the perfect book for any writer in your life. It's also very funny even for those who aren't. Tom Gauld takes a wry and often surreal look at the writing process and I found myself chuckling over so many of them. I've bought five more copies now to give as gifts to those I know will love it as much as I do!

I have been waiting for over a year for this book to be published. My daughters and I went to see Tom Gauld at the Edinburgh Book Festival where he did a talk and book signing. He mentioned that he would be releasing another collection of his comics and this is it! Simple, funny, literary, gorgeous illustrations. I absolutely love it. I have to agree with the previous reviewer in that his books will cheer you up whenever you are feeling down. His comics always brought a smile to my face when I was going through some tough times. The perfect companion to You are all Just Jealous of my Jetpack.

I am recuperating from surgery at the moment, and while I am mostly supine, I treated myself to some books to cheer the days. One of them was Baking with Kafka. I also bought Tom's earlier book, You're All Just Jealous of my Jetpack. I finished Jetpack earlier in the week and absolutely loved it. I didn't think I could enjoy this more, but I did. As with poems or short stories, a comic book will not always be a smooth read, as some things you will love and others may leave you cold. But I loved every single bit of this book so much. Each page is a gem to be treasured and returned to over and over again. I was having a grim time this morning, and then I read this, and I feel better.

This is a collection of Tom Gauld's cartoons for the Guardian review, gently poking fun at the world of literature and as such should appeal to any bookworm or writer.

Another very witty book from Tom Gauld to make you smile

I bought this book as a gift but I had a flick through before I wrapped it. I really loved the great illustrations and bizarre humor. I would definitely recommend.

Such a funny book!! Totally recommend for those sad covid days

I've been a fan of Tom Gauld's work for years, plus, given that our family has roots in Scotland, I love seeing a fellow countryman celebrated internationally for his dry wit.

I'm also a big fan of standup comic Stephen Wright, which tells you just how dry and also how abstract Gauld's cartoon concepts often are. They make us smile, often, because they tilt our world on its side and remind us that there's humor in so many of our daily twists and turns.

And just to clarify: No, all of his comics are not about literary themes, although he returns to such ideas over and over again. This is a book I'll likely pull of the shelf maybe once a year and enjoy all over again, much like I've watched some videos of Wright's standup routines more than once and laughed every time.

Another reason I enjoy Gauld's comics is that, many years ago when I was first experimenting with journalism as a middle school student, my father (who was a talented amateur artist) helped me create some cartoons for the first student newspaper I published at age 13. I was surprised when he showed me the panels for the newspaper, which featured almost geometric characters delivering the lines to each other.

"What's that?" I asked him. "They don't even have faces."

"You don't need to fully flesh out the characters," he said. "That way they're 'everyman.'"

Tom Gauld clearly is from my father's school of cartooning, his figures often resembling the figures my Dad had sketched for those little comics for a tiny indie newspaper in the '60s.

So, clearly, there's family affinity in my affection for this book, which I've found over the years is part of the way we learn to love good humor. It feels like home.

Tom Gauld è stata una scoperta. Ho acquistato altri sui libri.

Very funny!

Some of the smartest and funniest comics out there about the folly of the human condition. Gauld's caustic humor shines and his eye for the not so ordinary is refreshing. He is probably the most literary of contemporary illustrators and a fine one at that.

Esta increíble, en perfectas condiciones, la pasta gruesa es lo mejor, y el contenido insuperable, los dibujos súper lindos, todo muy cool