Jay Grows an Alien
by Caroline Anne Levine
Jay is a young boy with aspergers. He feels no one understands him and vice versa. One day Jay gets some capsule toys. you put them in water and they grow one of them turns about to be an Alien cybrog named 2X. Thru his friendship with 2X Jay begins to learn that there are good parts to his AS. this was a cute little stroy. The alien aspies parell has been done many times before but this one did it pretty well. unlike other aspies book fro young readers i thought jay was actully mad ein a chracter that you could care about not just a bunch of streotypes.
It Takes a Worried Man: A Memoir
by Brendan Halpin, 2002 After Brendan Halpin's wife was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer, Brendan wrote a book about it. He writes about his fears: of death, becoming a single father, losing his best friend, being an adult all by himself. Although this is a book about living with cancer, living with cancer is necessarily about living, and Halpin also writes about that: about his daughter, his life as a high school teacher, being a son, being a sexual man, his love of movies, and his faith, church, and church based community. This book reads like a blog because it consists of short essays in sequence with rough topics, and also because some of the entries are awesome narratives and others won't make sense if you aren't up on the assumed knowledge of movies. In the end, I liked this book more for the frank self explanation than for the cancer story.
Turbulent reading.
