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.
Becoming a Visible Man
by Jamison Green
Jamison was born feamale but never felt comfortable as one. So he eventally made the transtion to male. fist with hormones than surgery. i really enjoyed this book it is more than just a autobigoraghy it is a really close and presonally look into the Ftm comunity. I really like Green's writting.
Accidents of Nature
by Harriet McBryde Johnson
jean is 17 years old she has cerbal palsy. she has always gone to normal school but now she is attend a camp for person with disabilties. there she meets Sara a girl who is also in a wheel chair sara's radical views change Jean' s mind on how she thinks of herself and how other with disabilties are treated. i really enjoyed the book. The way the camp staff treat the teens in the camp was so aggrivating for example how the were flirting and touching the kids at the dance ans when the game at the fair were rigged so everyone could win. as A person with Nld i was able to indefiy very much with the book. i have one question there is a chracter in book who has eplipsy she said that eplietics could not get married was this actully true at one time. the book was set in 1970 btw.
Trans-Sister Radio
by Chris Bohjalian (
http://www.chrisbohjalian.com/This book centers around Dana and man who has a sex change and how the change effects his life with his girlfreind and ohter around him. I thought it was a good book and a sad one too to see how much bad stuff happend to Dana and Allie after the change. some have said the found the ending unbelevable but i sas it coming.
Experiment Perilous
Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown
by Renee C(laire) Fox, 1959Ward F-Second in a research hospital in the 1950s was occupied by doctors cum researchers, patients cum experiments. With research procedures different from what they became in the fifty years between the setting of this book and today, and with patients expected to die, Ward F-Second presents an interesting picture of medical history. Fox entered the ward as an observer with the intent of writing a sociological piece on the mechanisms of a research ward, and she did a great job.
Fox takes notes on the humor of the patients and physicians (sometimes repeating herself), commenting on its morbidity, without being judgemental. In fact, the lack of judgements in this book is refreshing and unusual; the contrasts between patients are frequently ones that would lend themselves well to judgements.
Patients in this ward are all male, which Fox does not comment on. The description of the medical conditions in this book are both technical and out of date, but they can either be skipped, without much loss of plot or point, or can be understood with a small (not quite minimal) amount of outside research or background.
Enjoyable reading.
