This is not an ordinary book: it's a BookCrossing book! BookCrossing books are world travelers - they like to have adventures and make new friends...and every once in a while they even write home to say what they've been doing.

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Mail order purchase: I think I first learned about this book from an article in the newspaper.

Iraq veteran Maximilian Uriarte's comic Terminal Lance has been published in the Marine Corps Times, so you know Uriarte must be getting it right.

The White Donkey follows Marine Lance Corporal Abe Belatzeko from training in Hawaii through his deployment to Iraq, and shows some of what happens to him afterwards. This heavy hardback edition is not the sort of thing you throw in your bag for reading on-the-go, but that's ok: the story deserves more attention than that anyway.

Friday, June 14, 2017: headed to Illinois as a RABCK; I thought this was excellently done, so I hope you find it a good read.

Released for Secretariat's 2017 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge (week 27: color names in title).

USPS tracking: 9549 0104 3304 7195 1833 85
ETA 8/3/17

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this got here safely. Sorry for not journaling it earlier.

I wasnt sure what to expect from this book. I found the story heartbreaking as Abe strugles with being a Marine, what he expects of his tour of duty, what is expected of him during that tour of duty and the disconect he feels after returning to the US. This is a very personal and realistic story, and not one that I might have picked up if I saw it on the shelf at the bookstore. This is one thing I love about bookcrossing, the exposure to new and unexpected books.

I'm sending this to emmejo fpr the manga/graphic novel sweeps. Sorry it took so long to get to you.

sending to emmejo

This arrived a couple days ago, but the day it arrived we had no electricity, so I set the box aside and forgot to journal the books when the power came back. Sorry for the delay, and thank you for the books!

I am moving most of the books from my TBR to the my available shelf because I am in the process of moving and trying to avoid moving books! If I have time, I still plan to read these, but I'm getting them ready to travel if that happens first.

I believe this is the correct stop, although the sign says Allegany River.

I left it on one of the seats in the center room.