This is kind of in a lot of different categories. And oddly, partially because I have wanted to use things like "biography" and "memoir" both on this one. And "comic", "visual-narative" and "graphic-novel" on here. Well, OK, it seems my tags might be "wrong". Anyway... 
 "Why this didn't get 5 stars" 
 This got very close to being 5 star book, but there were just enough bits that were "not amazing". Some of them I found triggering, but in a safe environment that can be really great, but this was not really a book I was expecting that out of. (I think one was "The Simple Dog") chapter. 
 If I understand correctly, for the most part these are all available on the blog. Which of course is a different reading experience. But if you are budget limited, and don't want to buy this, you do have that option. That is in *no way* a criticism of the book form of this. It is just a statement of why I really am not all that interested in buying (or even requesting) a copy of it for myself. 
 I love dead tree books. It is my preferred way of reading books most of the time. 
 OK, I got distracted from the other bits that were "not awesome". Some I actually found "almost boring". More "a bit difficult to slog through". 
 So yes, it was really very close to a 5 star review, but it wasn't *quite*. 
 I have a question for those of you who look at my reviews and for the books which I end up reccomending to you. Are you feeling that my reccomending the books any advantage over what simply marking the book and writing the review. 
 I think one of the things I have noticed, is I that while some people I feel that "I would feel confident buying this book for so and so" there are very few people who I feel "I can't really say this person would not like this book". Maybe that is the people who I have listed here as "friends". I know that there are a few people who I have listed are people which are more "people I follow" than actually people who I have any kind of friendship relationship with. 
 There are also a few people who I am not really sure what my relationship with them is. 
 So... It's maybe not as dirrected as some of my reviews.