I was floored at first by the weight of the box when I first picked it up. Needless to say all was explained when I opened it (after copious ripping/tearing of tape! haha). I received a copy of Habibi by Craig Thompson. Habibi (حَبيبي) means my beloved, for those who want to know :) It's a great book where the main characters are normal people (no capes, super powers) and honestly, I couldn't put it down (hence my day-after posting, sorry!) I really enjoy comics like this and would love to work it into an English class curriculum (but I'm not sure I may have to save it for a college course because some of the scenes are more graphic than other comics I've introduced to students with equally heavy material).

Wow, I just.. I can't even tell you a lot about it without spoiling it, and also because I feel like I need to reread this a few more times to fully get everything that it's trying to say. I did a quick read through because the angst was killing me, but I'd like to go through again to get a deeper reading from it (and check the index throughout), because the book talks a lot about the Quran, and at times compares it to similar events in the Bible. I love reading about... stories of religions, and I love to learn about similarities within different religions too :)

After I read it several more times, I'm going to try to introduce my super-Christian aunt to this, and see if it helps change her perspective on some things (haha, I'm not hoping for miracles here, but I think it's a great tool to show teach others, regardless of religion, that we're all just.. people). This isn't a new discovery, I knew this before, haha, but I'm just so amazed at how beautiful this book is.

Sorry if I sound out of it, I'm just dazed as this has been one of the best comic book reads in a while, thank you CBGN-santa!

I also received the Unwritten by Mike Carey and Peter Gross. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but my husband did seem excited to get his hands on it (I didn't let him though :3) as he said he's heard lots of great things about it. I'm positive though if my CBGN-santa sent it, it's sure to be mind-blowingly amazing!

Thank you CBGN-santa for being so incredibly generous and sending me these two wonderful, amazing books! There's not enough words to describe how happy I am to have gotten these/you as my match :)