Same Kind of Different as Me

The relationship between Denver Moore and Ron Hall is interesting and encouraging. This book about their story is not nearly as much. The fault, I think, is in the way it was written. There are parts of the book with minute details about things that ultimately don't seem to matter, and then large sections of time that are critical to the friendships between the two men are swept over. We're told that Denver has come to be seen as one of the family for the Halls without any evidence really shown of that.

The part of the book that I did think was powerful was the storytelling around the grief experienced by Ron at the loss of his wife. I couldn't make it through the scenes from the last few days of her life without crying, and this line from just after her death: "When He didn't -- and I truly believed He could -- my heart exploded," exploded in me as well.