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nlgauvreau's review
2.0
I read this on Hoopla, and I'm glad I didn't pay for it except through my taxes (but I'm sad to have lost a monthly Hoopla borrow on this).
I opted to read this thinking it might be a more real life look at an [b:Al Capone Does My Shirts|89716|Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)|Gennifer Choldenko|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1309198452l/89716._SY75_.jpg|2952174] living situation (obvious many years later than ACDMS); it was not. This memoir is really just a set of vignettes connected by the family visiting different places on the island many years after they've stopped living there because they've been invited to attend the island closing ceremony.
I'll also mention that the cover is the most colour you'll get out of the book. It's mostly not even grey scale, just black and white (and I'm not asking for full colour, because there are great fully great scale or grey scale with only one accent colour graphic novel/graphic memoirs out there).
I'm sure this book is for someone, I'm just not sure who given that you don't really learn much of anything about prisons or living on a prison island, the subject isn't a celebrity, and the art isn't the main draw (no puns intended).
I opted to read this thinking it might be a more real life look at an [b:Al Capone Does My Shirts|89716|Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)|Gennifer Choldenko|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1309198452l/89716._SY75_.jpg|2952174] living situation (obvious many years later than ACDMS); it was not. This memoir is really just a set of vignettes connected by the family visiting different places on the island many years after they've stopped living there because they've been invited to attend the island closing ceremony.
I'll also mention that the cover is the most colour you'll get out of the book. It's mostly not even grey scale, just black and white (and I'm not asking for full colour, because there are great fully great scale or grey scale with only one accent colour graphic novel/graphic memoirs out there).
I'm sure this book is for someone, I'm just not sure who given that you don't really learn much of anything about prisons or living on a prison island, the subject isn't a celebrity, and the art isn't the main draw (no puns intended).
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