June’s Recommended Books
Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down! How Elvis shook up music, me and mom
(2010) Mark Alan Stamaty
As hard as it is to believe nowadays, Elvis used to be just about the most annoying music you could play, as a young Mark Stamaty discovered. In this heartwarming graphic novel, the author describes how he and his mother came to love the King.
(2011) Don Pyle
In the late 70's, Toronto was a city struggling to identify itself. A longtime bastion of conservative Upper Canadian values, "Toronto the Good" nonetheless had a grittier underside that was beginning to bubble to the surface. High school student Don Pyle, equipped with a Canon AT-1 in a plastic grocery bag, was there to document the rise of the Toronto punk scene as it trashed stages from The El Macombo and The Horseshoe right up to Massey Hall.
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