"The Day the World Came to Town": A friend on Facebook saw that I had posted about the musical "Come From Away" and asked if this was the story of Gander on 9/11/2001. When I told her it was, she said she had read a book all about that, and that she'd send it to me. I was super excited because if I haven't said it enough - "Come from Away" is the best show I saw this year. The book wasn't as fabulous as the musical - afterall, there was no music - but it was really good. The book is basically all of the stories of the people that landed in Gander and the people that lived in Gander at the time. It jumps back and forth a lot and gives you an idea of just how stressful and remarkable those 6 days in 2001 were. It's just a happy story and one that so deserves to be told.
"My Ideal Bookshelf": The setup is that authors, designers, artists, actors, etc. all write about the books that make up their "ideal" bookshelf, then a painter paints that bookshelf. It was a cute look at what people thought of as ideal when it came to books. Though, I do admit to feeling terribly bad about what I read. My books are nowhere near as intelligent as the books painted in this book.
"El Deafo": I've been hearing about this graphic novel for months, and when the bestie told me she had it, I jumped at the chance to read it. I blew through it in about 2 hours and LOVED it. The main character is a little girl - who's some sort of animal - who goes deaf when she's about 4. She makes herself into her very own superhero - El Deafo - to get her through rough patches. She goes through lots of different hearing devices and learns sign language and lip reading, as she grows. It's a great intro to disabilities for kids but it's also fun. The main character is snarky and adorable, and I just loved the way the author wrote it.
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