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My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s by Peter Dunlap-Shoh

April 1, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This GN is this year’s  Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story by Catherine Pioli The Language of PD  The Spandex Angel One Order of No Vomit Coming Up I Hate Running I could call this review any of the above and a hundred other things. Such as, “I tried not to cry as I was reading as I was at work and it reminded me of my friends who passed from complications of the disease (and one of whom also had complications from Alzheimer’s).” […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Diseases & Conditions, Health & Fitness, medicine, Nervous System (Incl. Brain), Parkinson's, Peter Dunlap-Shoh

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:166 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Diseases & Conditions, Health & Fitness, medicine, Nervous System (Incl. Brain), Parkinson's, Peter Dunlap-Shoh ·
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A very emotional read

Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story by Catherine Pioli

November 9, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Author and illustrator Catherine Pioli chronicled her journey as a leukemia patient in Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story. At first, I thought it would be some “sad sack poor me” story. I was wonderfully surprised it was nothing like that. I wasn’t halfway through this graphic novel (reading a reader copy online through Edelweiss) before I know it was going to be a five. And unless some huge middle finger happened it would stay a five for the sheer power of it. Instead, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: cancer, Catherine Pioli, Death / Grief / Bereavement, Diseases & Conditions, family relationships, France, Health & Fitness, personal narrative, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphom

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:554 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: cancer, Catherine Pioli, Death / Grief / Bereavement, Diseases & Conditions, family relationships, France, Health & Fitness, personal narrative, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphom ·
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