A review by onetruenorth
Guts by Raina Telgemeier

5.0

this time was a re-read, but i love it just as much the second time around. i fell in love with this book almost instantly, and it is my all time favorite graphic novel. throughout it, raina depicted problems that i know intimately: those surrounding emetophobia. for the first time ever, i saw someone exactly like myself on the pages of a book. like raina, i have an intense fear of throwing up. it has effected my relationship with food, and my body (is it not ironic that my fear makes me feel sick much more often than other people do?) i highly recommend this book, and i know that i will reread it many more times in the future. it is such a comfort book for me in that it reminds me that i am not alone. there are other people out there who are just like me, and this book made me truly recognize this for perhaps the first time.