A Monster Calls and my library stack

Last night I stayed up late to finish the YA award-winning novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. Obviously it was a short book - it took me barely a day to finish - and a good one. At first I was a little blasé about the story line and the main character because I felt I had seen them a few times before but the art work (by Jim Kay) kept me going as well as the smooth writing. By the end I was completely absorbed, sitting under a lone lamp while the world around me slept, and I cried. I haven't cried for a book in a while. I generally avoid weepers. There are enough sad things in the world, must I burden myself with the stories based on those things as well? But I had borrowed this one from the library believing it was about something else entirely and once I started... well, I described that above.

Now I must be in the mood for weepers. Tonight I started the YA novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys about the survival of a girl during Stalin's "cleansing" after Soviet Russia annexed Estonia, Lithoania, and Latvia. I wish it had illustrations, though. The girl is an artist and sends clues through drawings. Shouldn't that have illustrations? Perhaps they will do a graphic novel version next.
I'm also reading The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin in the mornings which is completely fascinating. I love articles from magazines like Psychology Today, which is basically the way The Autistic Brain reads: brief synopses of years of complicated research. Of course, Grandin centers it all on her personal story and that truly makes it worth reading.

On my library stack (I wish I could read three books at once!):
El Sonador by Pam Munoz Ryan (about Pablo Neruda - in spanish!)
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (YA romance)
The Green Boat by Mary Pipher (NF about positive environmentalism)
An Atheist in the Foxhole by Joe Muto (memoir about Muto working for Fox news)
Dingo by Charles de Lint (YA fantasy)
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz (NF about surviving an appocolypse)
Helga's Diary by Helga Weiss (her diary while in a concentration camp)

Without A Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal (Fantasy/Romance)