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 I agree with SandraGandarez- even though The 9/11 Report wasn't "just the facts" (mostly due to the images), because it wasn't a first-person narrative I didn't feel like I could connect to the plot in the same way that I could reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I feel like another reason is also that in Immortal Life, everything that Skloot presented to me was new, other than basic biological interactions and structures. I didn't know about the origins of Hela cells or the life of the woman behind them, so the learning aspect was another engaging aspect of the book. While I didn't know the underlying details of all of the 9/11 plots, I fell that I had a pretty good grasp on what happen surrounding the attacks, so perhaps I didn't take as much time to go through every detail because I said to myself "oh, I know some of this already." And of course there is the fact that I'm not a huge fan of graphic novels, although because of Anne's classes I have definitely become more receptive to them.