That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers Published by HarperCollins on October 28, 2025
Genres: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs, Family & Relationships / Autism Spectrum Disorders, Family & Relationships / Love & Romance, Humor / Form / Essays, Poetry / American / General, Self-Help / Anxieties & Phobias, Self-Help / Personal Growth / General
Pages: 288
Format: eBook
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New York Times Bestseller!
Writer, comedian, and content creator Elyse Myers gets real about life’s awkward moments in her bold, funny, and unfiltered debut book
Elyse Myers is known to her twelve million followers as “The Internet’s Best Friend,” sharing her relatable stories and comedic sketches and serving as an advocate for topics such as neurodivergence, impostor syndrome, body image, and more. Whether she’s making people laugh with tales of disastrous dates or giving a voice to that awkward internal monologue many of us have, she has three simple goals behind everything she makes: To make people feel known, loved, and like they belong.
In That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You, Elyse delivers a debut collection of deeply personal stories and hand-drawn illustrations, offering even more intimate reflections beyond what fans have seen on her social media, including:
- Spending 7 Minutes in Heaven accidentally friend-zoning her crush
- How Lucy, the Magic 8 Ball keychain, changed her life by accident
- Moving from California to Australia to Texas to Nebraska to like (maybe even love!) herself
- How to Fold Hospital Corners in 10 EASY STEPS!—a practical guide and a rumination about…everything
- The “meat cute” when she met her smoke show of a husband at a butcher’s counter in Australia—and how she revealed herself to be an emotional runner
Plus, tales involving bad dates and is-this-a-dates; the tempting yet futile urge to reinvent yourself, panic attacks and escape hatches, and favorite pens and systems to use them, all while loving and letting yourself be loved, preferably at the same time.
I chose to listen to this book because well Elyse Myers narrating Elyse Myers. I’m not huge on the socials, I don’t have a TikTok or a YouTube and influnster culture isn’t really my game. I’ve only just starting watching reels with sound (not just CC) in the last year. Honestly, even with closed caption on I didn’t ever really watch reels anyway, too much commitment to changing the media volume on my phone 😀 But you know how it goes as things and people come across your feed somewhere and sometimes it can become a rabbit hole for that person or thing. And one of those people for me was Elyse Myers. She’s hilariously relatable and it’s like she was telling stories similar to those in my brain. I resonated with her thought process and who she presented herself. Somewhat jealous that she figured it all out so young.
The truth is a book is very different than a reel or even a post. And that is where I’m struggling with this review. It is 100% written in the same manner she communicates any other way which is why I appreciate her and who she is. Every story has a side quest, every side quest builds a person, and that person is so relatable to how my own brain works. I live in side quests if we are being honest. But that’s the same reason I’m struggling with the book format. It felt disjointed while being cohesive. It was all the things I love about the author but didn’t hit right in this format. Hindsight, I wish I had treated this book like a post or reel, taken chapters in segments broken over days instead of one listen through. I think that would have made this all feel so much more cohesive as it was intended to be.
In choosing the audio book I got to hear her tell her stories in a way only she can. The fun sound effects were an added bonus. In choosing the audio books I missed out on the doodles and drawings that can’t be translated. However, I think the audio book was the right choice so I stayed in her voice and her mind and not read it in mine. Ultimately, I think this book brings value to the world. I think that it needed to be shared. I think some of what I struggle with is universal but I also think it’s a me issue. If you choose to pick up this book take it in segments. Slow down and absorb the stories and the foundation of who Elyse is and how she became the person she is. This is not a novel to devour. This is a story to savor.
About Elyse Myers
Elyse Myers is a writer, comedian, and content creator who’s known to her twelve million followers as “The Internet’s Best Friend,” sharing relatable stories and comedic sketches and serving as an advocate for topics such as neurodivergence, imposter syndrome, body image, and more. Whether she’s making people laugh with stories of disastrous dates or giving a voice to that awkward internal monologue many of us have, she has three simple goals behind everything she makes: To make people feel known, loved, and like they belong. She hopes that by sharing her authentic and unfiltered self with the world, others will feel comfortable doing the same. Elyse lives in the Midwest with her husband, two sons, and her pillow pet named Wallace.
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