Hello! Books on GIF is a weekly review and discussion of random books told with the help of GIFs. We'll cover fiction, nonfiction and the occasional graphic novel. This Sunday's book is 'The Right Stuff,' by Tom Wolfe. Back in January, my wife and I were stuck for a few extra days on Isla Mujeres in Mexico by a blizzard in New York. (There are worse places in the world to be stuck, for sure.) But I had a problem: I had finished the books I had brought with me for our vacation.* There were no book shops on the island, and the hotel where we were staying only had a bunch of uninteresting books that had been warped by the climate, many of which were in German. Luckily, we discovered a man who ran a book shop out of his house at night after he came home from work. It was full of all kinds of stuff he'd picked up from who knows where. Each volume was wrapped in plastic to protect it. That's where I found 'The Right Stuff.'
Books on GIF #20 — 'The Right Stuff' by Tom Wolfe
Books on GIF #20 — 'The Right Stuff' by Tom…
Books on GIF #20 — 'The Right Stuff' by Tom Wolfe
Hello! Books on GIF is a weekly review and discussion of random books told with the help of GIFs. We'll cover fiction, nonfiction and the occasional graphic novel. This Sunday's book is 'The Right Stuff,' by Tom Wolfe. Back in January, my wife and I were stuck for a few extra days on Isla Mujeres in Mexico by a blizzard in New York. (There are worse places in the world to be stuck, for sure.) But I had a problem: I had finished the books I had brought with me for our vacation.* There were no book shops on the island, and the hotel where we were staying only had a bunch of uninteresting books that had been warped by the climate, many of which were in German. Luckily, we discovered a man who ran a book shop out of his house at night after he came home from work. It was full of all kinds of stuff he'd picked up from who knows where. Each volume was wrapped in plastic to protect it. That's where I found 'The Right Stuff.'