[.ca] Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love, and Beating the Odds (ISBN 0375708014)

Read it or you'll miss out on this jewel.:
I picked this book up in the biography section of my library. I was about to have my knee operated on and wondered if I could find a good book to read during the days in bed not moving. Well, I was moved by this book. It is one of the best books I have ever read. You almost feel like you know Dan through his setbacks and triumphs. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You will fall in love with this wonderful book.

Must Read!:
A must read if you've ever known anyone diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease. Helped me understand what my own son was enduring.

More than empathy:
My 19 year old son is going through cancer treatment, and by chance a friend loaned me this book. It is a wonderful reference for anyone who has a young relative going through cancer treatment.

A life-changing experience.:
You might think that the title of my review refers to this man's life changing experience, but in fact I'm speaking of the life changing experience that has been reading this book. Dan Shapiro truly is a brilliant man and he wrote a complex, insightful book. I think the title is misleading, but the story more than makes up for it. It's almost as if the book is interactive; it makes you think back about many things, and can be very humorous at times. When he said he knew his daughter wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for his mother's talking to a stranger, it took me a while to realize he was talking about the woman in that first waiting room telling his mother to save sperm. I like that, that way that Daniel Shapiro has about writing this book. It was one of my favorite books, if not my favorite book, that I have ever read, and I would absolutely love to see a sequel of some sort. (This is the kind of book that once you're finished reading you feel like you've known the author all your life and you wish to meet him.)

"Death Be Not Proud" on Pot:
A book in which a guy narrates the various stages of his harrowing medical ordeal shouldn't be this entertaining. I started reading and found I didn't want to stop. It's warm, amusing, wise, playful and filled with laugh out loud moments -- without a trace of bathos or self pity. This is not a book I would have chosen on my own. I received it as a gift. Now that I have read it, I would recommend it highly to anyone.