There Are Too Many Milks

The description of this book says it is a laugh out loud collection of illustrations. I am sorry to say that I only laughed once, when there was a picture of dogs in sweaters, and we are told that dogs have never dressed better, which I agree with.

But all the other observations about modern life, eh. I'm probably the wrong target for this book. There is a lot of resentment about not having the wonderful life on social media, having no followers, and getting botox, none of which I worry about.

So, I'm sure someone much younger than me, and with more worries would find this book as laugh out loud hilarious, but it wasn't that way for me.

Your milage may vary.


<em>Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.</em>

This was ... fine.

I laughed at some of the spreads, and others made me cringe. If felt very straight white middle class woman for better or worse. I also didn't particularly care for the drawing style, so I don't think this book is for me.

I think there is potential here, but just needs to find the right audience.

Thank you for the EArc NetGalley and Chronicle Books. As a 40something I could totally relate to the hilarity in this book and did in fact, laugh out loud many times. Dongle with cheese anyone? This book is a quick read and I wanted it to be longer but the content is highly relatable and hilarious and the illustrations were equally as entertaining. I loved it. If you don’t laugh you ARE one of the people who are causing/inventing these annoyances.

Ok what the heck, this was actually really funny 😂 it gave me Far Side vibes, with a sarcastic take on the annoyances of today’s world. I thought it was very clever!

Thank you so much for Netgalley and the publisher for this advanced copy.
Sometimes funny, but sometimes just cringe. the book is so so.

This was just OK for me. I didn't really find it especially funny and the artwork really didn't do it for me. Maybe someone with a different sense of humor will pick this up and fund it hilarious though.

Usually when someone calls their own book "laugh out loud funny" I roll my eyes and prepare mentally for a rapid-onset case of underwhelming to assault me. Lawall and Wonder's book: "There Are Too Many Milks" claimed the golden title of hilarity and then defended their championship perfectly. At one point my wife stomped in the living room and asked flatly: "What are you DOING?" because I, a grown man with four children, was giggling at my iPad. "Babe, it's this storybook!" I tried to show her but she sighed and left the room leaving me in peace to finish what has just become my new favorite gift for people. Except the book isn't out yet. And so I wait, and wait, and wait for March to finally roll around.

In the meantime, you can find me at the store laughing in the milk section, because there are in fact, too many milks.

I received a free digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The authors pulled together a fun collection of insights, a few of which made me laugh. Unfortunately, many of them felt like the same jokes repeated or minor complaints blown up. But this would make a good gift for someone who shared the opinions of the authors.

I was able to read the digital ARC of this through NetGalley!

For Millennials, especially us elder millennials, this book hits close to home. There are too many milks, the world is on fire, teenagers are terrifying, and we're living longer to see it all happen! This is a hilarious reflection on the current state of the world and especially for the Gen X, Millennial and Gen Z generations. When I say hilarious, I do mean that this is dark comedy, definitely with a heavy hand of uncomfy for the first few pages. Though like life, you slowly get accustomed to this and just accept the darkness that it is. This would be a great gag gift or coffee table book for Boomer parents, or the Millennials that just want to reflect on the trash fire that is the world right now.

Personally, I am a little biased to oatmilk, just saying.

Anne nailed this. I laughed at damn near every page but almost peed my pants when I reached the email sign off chart. The accuracy was like a knee to the balls, shockingly accurate and painful but hilarious to others. Somehow she has managed to sum up the comedic double standards of our generation in 95 pages. Bravo.

This book is hysterical. I love every bit of it. It's a grown up picture book reflecting on modern day life. Each page showcases stressors and contradictions we face in our everyday life. The page about turning a hobby into a hustle literally made me laugh aloud. Short. Simple. Funny.

This book is so funny and relatable to the mundane issues people have today. Its a really fast quick read. Would make a great bathroom or coffee table book.

Loved this quick graphic novel about modern life - it made me feel seen, it made me laugh, and it poked the perfect amount of fun at the state of life today. This is a perfect read for anyone that needs validation or a laugh! Thank you to Netgalley and Chronicle Books for the ARC - There Are Too Many Milks is out 5/7/23.

This book reminds me of All My Friends are Dead. It's a funny perspective on how confusing everything can be at the moment, and it got a lot of laughs out of me.

This book is hilarious! How validating to know that these minor inconveniences and tragedies aren't just happening to me. Definitely a great read to start your new year and give yourself some grace and patience.

There were a lot of mixed advanced reviews for There are Too Many Milks, but I found it hilarious. The pictures really drive home the anxiety of current life. However, you really need to be able to laugh at yourself and the world around you to truly enjoy and understand the point of this book. It’s a picture book of true commiseration for modern adult humans that exploits the maddening volume of choices we face daily and the expense that comes with making good choices and creates a literal and figurative portrait detailing why what should be a simple process of grocery shopping/getting lunch/etc often turns into an epic journey. It also emphasizes why we’re all so tired these days from decision fatigue and why we consistently make poor choices for ourselves in the current generation. It’s a daily multiple choice question with 25 answers. There are just too many freaking milks.

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5/5 stars

great book, i’d recommend it as a gift during the holidays or if you have someone who’s going through a hard time and you want them to smile :)

a nice pick me up! i love the illustrations and the storytelling.

it was funny and enjoyable! thank you for the great read

This is a hilarious insight to everything an adult from this age is thinking. I swear this is so relatable. SOOOO many choices for everything and sooo many things to learn, use and know.

Thank you NetGalley and Chronicle Books for giving the opportunity to read this!

Personally, this is not an art style I enjoy. There's quite a bit of animation done in a similar style, which is very popular, but I personally find it unappealing. While humorous, nothing in the book felt new. It felt like a lot of the same jokes about getting older, just done in a different comic style. Fun for one read through, but not something I could see as having a long term appeal with my library patrons.

I honestly loved this book so much! I would buy it and recommend it being purchased for my public library!

This was a cute read, comedically highlighting many of the realities of being an adult. The humor was a bit cheesy at points, but this still made for a quick, fun book.

I really liked the illustrations, and I think this book would make a fun gift!

If you need a hilarious and completely accurate illustration of what life is like in the 2020’s…well this book is it. The illustrative style alone is really funny and their facial expressions resonate so hard with me. The statements accompanying them are just as funny and will having you going “oh my gosh! Yes! I’ve literally done that” or “I have those crystals!” Or “YES! Gut health is overwhelming!”. Great book and would be hilarious as a flip through coffee table book or just as a reminder that, as wacky as our lives are now, we are ALL still chugging along as best we can.

Thank you, NetGalley!

This book was fine. I chuckled once or twice, but the tone didn’t quite strike the right balance for me. It was page after page of complaints about things that we’re supposedly all bummed out about (like having too many choices for milk, I guess?), and so after a while, it started giving off “old man yelling at clouds” energy. Also, I hate the “you will need Botox” motif. Not my jam.

There Are Too Many Milks is a cute sarcastic graphic novel that is basically #firstworldproblems illustrated.

Although the illustration style isn’t exactly favorite I still found them cute.

I did have a few laughs but it wasn’t as funny as I thought it would be.

All in all a short, quick read that pokes fun at current events and life in 2023.

I would like to thank the publisher and Netgalley for allowing me access to this Advanced Reader's Copy.

This was an interesting book that poked fun at some of the "regular" day to day things of living in the 2020s. It was fun to see some of the absurdities we live with on a daily basis.

4 stars for a funny and relatable collection of comics~

These are some funny and relatable comics! I feel like they are more geared towards the Millennial generation [hi, Millennial here :)] but could definitely be relative to other generations as well. From having WAY too many available choices in milk to all of the ridiculously expensive skincare and beauty products the market makes us buy, these are struggles for many of us. I really liked the hilarious illustrations and expressions within.

Thank you to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for providing a digital ARC for review!

This was not was what I expected. I thought this book would be longer comics strips about the absurd things adults have to do, but it was often just sentences accompanying the drawings.
The drawings were fun and it was sometimes relatable, but I didn’t find this book funny. It was actually sort of sad at times, because it talked a lot about social network and appearances, and it relied a lot on stereotypes that we should try to deconstruct. The books doesn’t really denounces the things it mentions, it’s more a case of “when you’re an adult, you have to do that”, but it doesn’t really do a good job of deconstructing the things in question. We know they are things that annoy the author because it’s the whole purpose of the book, but it never really say that they’re things no one should have to do.
It was short and overall entertaining, but not the kind of comics that makes me laugh or stays with me.

"There Are Too Many Milks" is a quick compilation of the travails of being an adult today, told in one-off comic form. From observations about content calendars to finding the right sign-off for emails, if you're a young-ish adult in the 2020s, you'll likely recognize some—or many—of these moments. (Among other things: I've never been a huge social media person, but I have created content calendars for work before...and, as a lactose-intolerant tea lover, I have tried many, many different types of milk. Although, to be fair, I don't think there are too many milks so much as too many imperfect milks.)

This is very much designed to be a gift book, or one that is kept on a coffee table for people to leaf through while bored (or in the bathroom—do people still do that? This would be an excellent choice for a book to be kept on a shelf in the bathroom). Because the book is so art-heavy, though, enjoyment will likely depend heavily upon how well you enjoy the art style. It's very comic-style, like some comics you might see in the paper—simple, with exaggerated features on the people; almost every spread can stand alone, because there isn't a narrative thread beyond "adulting is hard." Not my preferred style of art, then, but something that might be a better fit for those who like...I'm not sure how to put this. Characters drawn to be not-pretty for the sake of humor? It would be interesting to see a version of this that worked with recurring characters, perhaps a handful of reluctant adults going through a week in their lives and encountering, you know, pointless gender reveal parties and too many milks.

Thanks to the author and publisher for providing a free review copy through NetGalley.

The premise of There Are Too Many Milks is good. Being an adult is hard. There are countless decisions to make at every turn and they make life overwhelming and exhausting at times. A few of the pages were funny, but most were just "meh". It's a fun coffee table book for guests to flip through but it's not something I'd reach for more beyond the initial read-through.

Thanks to Chronicle Books and NetGalley for an advanced reading copy of this book.

Super cute book! Made me chuckle! I would purchase this to give to friends as a fun birthday gift or for those of us who can never figure out what we want or like and is a fun spin on how things are ver evolving.

This was just okay for me. I think the best thing was the cover, which is quite funny and cute! The bulk of the book consists of a lot of one-liners, sarcastically commenting on annoyances from daily life, like the ever-changing algorithms of social media or the fact that dogs are often better dressed than you. It's cute, but not laugh-out-loud in my opinion. The art is also just okay for me, but that's really subjective. You might really enjoy the style. I would say get this from the library when you need a chuckle.

Bright colorful panels combined with simple but meaningful sentences! A joy to read, short but fun. Thank you for the e-ARC!

Given that one of my favorite books is “All My Friends Are Dead,” this book really hit the spot! It had me giggling and saying “lol so true bestie,” along with the pages. 10/10 would recommend, a very quick funny read!

Cute! I enjoyed the comic and found the story to be lovely. The illustrations were great and very relatable. Some of the pages were a little boring to look at with just words but I think a physical copy would be alleviate this problem. I think this is a great quick book to read when you need a laugh.

Cute book on today's First-world problems. Yes, there are too many milk choices and are they technically even milk? And just why does a salad cost so dang much? Just things that make you go "hmmm".
I didn't laugh out loud but I did have to grin at some of the observations.
Thanks to @netgalley for the opportunity to read this in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.