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Nominate a book for the 2024 October Monthly Group Read! This book could be used to fulfill Prompt #8 "a book by a blind or visually impaired author."
If you do not see the title you would like to nominate, please write it in. Please add in the comments what the author's visual impairment is, so we can be sure the book will fill this category.
I checked the authors of the first few books I grabbed from our Listopia to start this poll:
* Richard Osman was born with nystagmus, an eye condition that significantly reduces his vision.
* Alice Walker was injured in her right eye from a BB gun, and she eventually became permanently blind in that eye.
* Helen Keller became blind and deaf after a childhood illness.
* Homer was too long ago to know for sure, but legend says he was blind and recited his poems as he traveled from one place to another.
* Jennifer Armentrout has retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder that causes gradual retinal degradation leading to blindness.
Also please check that book's eligibility first! Only books that have NOT been discussed within the past two years (2022-present) are eligible. Remember to consult the listing of these books that are NOT eligible for this month HERE before nominating! :) There is an alphabetized listing by title as well as a chronological listing.
NOTE: This is the NOMINATION round, which is step one. This poll will be open for two weeks. We will select the top results from this round to create a new poll for a Final Vote to select ONE book for the October 2024 group read.
ANOTHER NOTE: Group reads are more lively when there is a discussion leader to guide things; keep this in mind and try to nominate a book for which you'd happily lead the discussion.
A special thank you to all who help select these books and especially to those who participate in and/or facilitate the discussions!
Nadine & Lynn
If you do not see the title you would like to nominate, please write it in. Please add in the comments what the author's visual impairment is, so we can be sure the book will fill this category.
I checked the authors of the first few books I grabbed from our Listopia to start this poll:
* Richard Osman was born with nystagmus, an eye condition that significantly reduces his vision.
* Alice Walker was injured in her right eye from a BB gun, and she eventually became permanently blind in that eye.
* Helen Keller became blind and deaf after a childhood illness.
* Homer was too long ago to know for sure, but legend says he was blind and recited his poems as he traveled from one place to another.
* Jennifer Armentrout has retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder that causes gradual retinal degradation leading to blindness.
Also please check that book's eligibility first! Only books that have NOT been discussed within the past two years (2022-present) are eligible. Remember to consult the listing of these books that are NOT eligible for this month HERE before nominating! :) There is an alphabetized listing by title as well as a chronological listing.
NOTE: This is the NOMINATION round, which is step one. This poll will be open for two weeks. We will select the top results from this round to create a new poll for a Final Vote to select ONE book for the October 2024 group read.
ANOTHER NOTE: Group reads are more lively when there is a discussion leader to guide things; keep this in mind and try to nominate a book for which you'd happily lead the discussion.
A special thank you to all who help select these books and especially to those who participate in and/or facilitate the discussions!
Nadine & Lynn
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1)
The Color Purple
The Illiad (Classics Illustrated)
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
(write-in)
Villette
(write-in)
Flood (Burke, #1)
(write-in)
Blind Spot by Laura Ellen (2014-06-10)
(write-in)
The Story of My Life
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This is an excerpt from the book description for The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight"We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from the outside in, such that he now sees the world as if through a narrow tube. Soon—but without knowing exactly when—he will likely have no vision left."
"Charlotte was very short sighted, taking after her father who in later life had to have his cataracts cut away without an anaesthetic. She was so short sighted that she had to give up playing the piano, as she couldn’t read the sheet music in front of her. Nevertheless when she was a teacher, her pupils were amazed to find that she could seemingly read perfectly well in darkness, an ability that they thought was some kind of magic."