Currently Reading: for Book Club: March: Book One and for the A-Z Title Challenge: Nancy Drew: The Demon of River Heights

Surprisingly both of my current reads are comic books.


For the Graphic Novel Reading Group

Book: March: Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin with illustrations by Nate Powell

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Publisher: Top Shelf Productions

Description:

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.

Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole).

March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis’ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.

Book One spans John Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.

Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1950s comic book "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.



For the A-Z Title Challenge:

Book: Nancy Drew: The Demon of River Heights (Nancy Drew: Girl Detective Graphic Novels book #1) by Stefan Petrucha with illustrations by Sho Murase

Publisher: Papercutz

Description:

Now America's Favorite Girl Detective Is In An All-New Series Of Graphic Novels From Papercutz!

Join Nancy Drew, along with Bess and George, as they search for missing student filmmakers and discover the deadly secret behind the local urban myth known as "The Demon of River Heights."