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Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
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Rating:  - Uniquely hilarious, wise and moving. You don't have to have cancer to love this book.
This is the type of writing (yes, writing, even though it's in comic panel format) that provides that rare mental megaphone for the committee of voices inside all of us. whether we're facing down cancer or life with all of it's challenges. It just so happens Miriam Engelberg is hysterically funny, having found her own unique way of calling out all those thoughts that we think are ours alone. she has a zest for life and a fine comic sense. i recommend the book for anyone really. and, of course, especially for anyone dealing with cancer...including family and friends.
Rating: - Excellent!!
As a breast cancer survivor myself, this book reflects many of my thoughts and feelings battling this dreaded disease. It speaks for the thousand of us women as we go through the diagnosis, treatment and beyond. I applaud the author and book. It addresses the practical side of being diagnosed with cancer and not the 'cancer is a gift' side. A must have for family and friends to help truly understand what we are going through after being diagnosed with cancer.
Rating: - Wonderfully thought-provoking (and laugh-provoking at times)
One might no longer feel as though on an island of despair after reading this comic-format book. Many of the issues and concerns and the self-blame for why one has gotten cancer - as well as how various people react to cancer within themselves, or among their friends, relatives, co-workers and strangers - are addressed in a thought-provoking manner that at times makes you laugh, but most of all, makes you realize that you are not alone. This is not a book covering all the latest treatment options, how to deal with the therapies and so forth. It is a charming and witty and yet soberingly realistic look at life with cancer. And it also a wonderful comic-relief from some of the (often times quite frightening) issues and concerns of having cancer. It also helps one to realize that many others in the same boat are having the same feelings.
I thought that some of the pertinent things covered in the book are:
- blaming yourself for having eaten the wrong things or having lived the wrong lifestyle - eating all that cheese, or greasy junk food full of preservatives, or drinking all that diet soda, or talking too much on the cell phone.
- how people with different forms of cancer sometimes have trouble relating to each other and how people with the same forms of cancer tend to form cliques for this reason.
- the notion of being a cancer survivor: when does it begin (upon diagnosis?) and when does it end (are you still a survivor in your deathbed, drawing your last few gasps of air?)
If you have recently been diagnosed with cancer, or are fighting it, or know someone near and dear who is going through it - READ THIS BOOK. Add it to the list of how-to's and serious medical books. It will help you understand how the human psyche responds to this form of crisis just a little better.
Rating:  - Inside Humor for Survivors
I opened up this book to a random page when I was walking home from the bookstore. I started laughing and kept peeking at new pages as I walked. When I got home, I sat down and read the whole book. When I showed my husband some of the cartoons, he started laughing. If you're a breast cancer survivor who appreciates off-beat humor and stark honesty, give this book a chance. As a warning, there's not a happy ending.
Rating: - I laughed, I cried
Miriam Engelberg's graphic tale of her encounter with cancer is the best I've ever read. It's gripping, sympathetic, bitterly funny and gut-wrenchingly sad all at the same time. They (whoever they are) say humor helps boost the immune system. I'm not a doctor but I could dress up as one and I'd prescribe this book in a heartbeat.
Don't read it if you go for the schmaltzy stuff. Read it if you want to laugh, cry and shake your fist at the fates.
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