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kailawil's review
5.0
I really loved this book. A lot of it hit close to home for me. Dealing with a disease that is likely to get worse the older you get...it's hard. It's scary, it's uncertain, and the fear of it can keep you from doing the things you want to do. I really appreciated the chapters "The Parkinson's Prism" and the "Island of the Caring and Competent." Disease changes us but we can't let it stop us. You get up and you keep going. Dunlap-Shohl managed to capture a lot of despair and hope in under a hundred pages. I always appreciate a well-done memoir about chronic illness but this one was one of the best I've read.
ash_among_the_stars's review
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
slow-paced
5.0
I related so much to Peter's journey. I have Crohn's Disease not Parkinson's. But I understood how it feels to go through the pain of being diagnosed with a chronic illness, and the journey to ascepting it.Â
Thank you for making this book.
Thank you for making this book.
audreydifilippo's review
5.0
A beautiful & descriptive memoir. Gives hope in the face of tragedy and intrapersonal grief.
chelseamartinez's review
4.0
This was illuminating; I don't yet know anyone personally with Parkinson's but as I hit 40 I am sure that I or someone I know will be affected. I was fascinated by how the author worked to adapt his style and his tech skills to continue to work as an artist. I only realized when I was done with the book that he lives in Alaska; I would have been interested to hear more about that (particularly wrt to the element of "exercise is crucial to managing Parkinson's").
zepysgirl's review
4.0
I thought it was very good! I feel I have a much better understanding of the disease now.
dozens's review
5.0
I still think about this book a lot. It taught me a lot of factual stuff about the disease, and taught me a lot of empathy for those struggling with it.