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no joke. i have read this book at least 100 times. that's not an exaggeration. i read it at least once a week. sometimes multiple times a day. this book will stay with me forever. and i will grow old with it. the humor and art combined with the raw emotion makes for the best graphic novel memoir I've Leggi tutto

Poet Ogden Nash said, "Some tortures are physical/And some are mental,/But the one that is both/Is dental." Graphic Novelist Raina Talgemeier knows this all too well; she is the Odysseus of modern dentistry. The author tells of her own particular journey of adolescent woe which came in the form of a Leggi tutto

A great read. I enjoyed the story and wow, I had no idea that orthodontists could move teeth that dramatically. I mean this girl really went through a lot with her teeth. She knocked out her front two teeth. She went through some hell here. This is a great coming of age story with great colors and fu Leggi tutto

WONDERFUL!! My daughter and I have enjoyed so much this autobiographical graphic novel.... Raina is a nice little girl, struggling with a crazy fear; that her severe teeth's trauma could compromise her friendships, school experiences and normal social relationships. But, how it will end!??. Beautiful, Leggi tutto

Braces sucked. From sixth through the beginning of eighth grade, I wore braces. Not brackets, but bands. On every tooth. Errant wires carved totems of the soft tissue at the back of my jaw—sacred designs that I'm sure exist there to this day. My smiles looked of cold steel. My jaw hurt from aggressi Leggi tutto