The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal

from cindywho

I read this book because I'd read somewhere that he'd interviewed someone from my home town. (Probably in her obituary - she died last year). Mooney spends a lot of time musing on his own history of trying to fit in as normal - a problem that is so universal, that it is on the boring side. He goe...

from toxictoast96

It's thought provoking, but seems to go off on too many tangents. I was expecting a story mostly about the children he features and the problems with the way they those with disabilities are seen and treated by the public, but that seemed to make up less than half of the book. The part that went ...

from touchthesky

Johnathan Mooney has done an excellent job of trying to find ways to define "normal." Although, he does not find a definite answer, he leaves his reader with questions about: What IS normal? I don't think many of us have really thought about it. Especially in regards to labeling someone with a di...

from UncleBunkle

This is a refreshingly upbeat book about misfits or other abled, and the human struggle to be different or to fit in, or to get comfortable with where you lie on the spectrum in between.

from UncleBunkle

This is a refreshingly upbeat book about misfits or other abled, and the human struggle to be different or to fit in, or to get comfortable with where you lie on the spectrum in between.