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Recommended by Eleventh Stack. Okay, so this person wanders around at night and finds a bookmobile with every book she has ever read on it. She spends the next ten years of her life reading and filling the bookmobile, holding onto the hope of finding it again. Nine years later she meets the bookmobile again and decides to become a librarian. When she meets the bookmobile 12 years later she questions if it was worth it? All that reading? IS it worth it? This book is haunting me in a you can't stop reading can you kind of way. Is it worth it?
After the other two Firefly graphic novels, I was slightly disappointed in the artwork for this one. None of the crew other than Shepherd Book, particularly Malcolm, looked anything like themselves. However, they did get the Shepherd exactly right, and since the others are only in 3-4 pages, their bad renderings weren't particularly intrusive. The book starts with the moments leading up to Book's death in the Serenity movie, and show key moments of his life in reverse order, flashback style. It doesn't tell the entire story. You know the bare bones of the events, but you're left to connect the pieces of how they must have affected Book. This is one book where I think an actual novel or show would have been a better medium than a graphic novel. Still pen and ink drawings just aren't very good at displaying complex emotions. You can never get the depth of feeling that you can in a novel's exposition or a live actor's changing expressions. Still, this makes me feel a great deal of nostalgia. What if the Firefly series hadn't been canceled? I would have loved to see Shepherd Book's back story slowly revealed on camera. The exposition at the beginning of the novel, as Book is dying from being shot, and the last exposition at the end of the novel - as he's leaving home for the first time are exactly right. And they do capture what I think of when I think of Shepherd Book, and Firefly in general.