{5\/5} “Just like Bruce Wayne uses all that crazy technology to turn himself into Batman on TV… I can use my own crazy technology — the phonic ear — to turn myself into a superhero, too! My power? Super hearing!”<\/p>\n
El Deafo<\/strong> by Cece Bell, published in 2014<\/p>\n Cece becomes deaf as a young child and has to get hearing aids. She gets a special pair for school to connect with a microphone that she gives her teacher — who she can then hear very well. As for other people, she has some trouble figuring out exactly what they’re saying — she tries reading lips. She’s not interested in sign language, and she’s not interested in people pointing out her condition. She eventually finds a friend who doesn’t care about her hearing aids, which makes things much nicer.<\/p>\n This is a graphic novel based on the true story of the author and illustrator. She draws her people with big ears like rabbits — a charming style which fits her story perfectly.<\/p>\n Like Hyperbole and a Half<\/strong>, it’s a story filled with tragic situations but it’s also hilarious.<\/p>\n It features references to things like Star Trek<\/strong>, MASH<\/strong>, and Twister.<\/p>\n This is the 1st book I’ve read by Bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {5\/5} “Just like Bruce Wayne uses all that crazy technology to turn himself into Batman on TV… I can use my own crazy technology — the phonic ear — to turn myself into a superhero, too! My power? Super hearing!” El Deafo by Cece Bell, published in 2014 Cece becomes deaf as a young child […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,56,23,5],"class_list":["post-21786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-graphic-novels","tag-nonfiction","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21788,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21786\/revisions\/21788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}