April 2026 HLAA-TC Book Club

NOTE DAY CHANGE! The April HLAA-TC Zoom Book Club book is the memoir “Losing Music” By John Cotter. AUTHOR JOHN COTTER WILL BE JOINING US! (It is in the BARD/library for the blind as number: BARD # DB 118270). Meeting on MONDAY, April 27, 2026 5pm Western/7pm Central/ 8pm Eastern. On Zoom with Captions. Free and open to all.

Register to receive the Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Rkc5vJ5nTRmBlo7qW3rs5g 

Book Synopsis: “I was in the car the first time music seemed strange: the instruments less distinct, the vocals less crisp.” John Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head. Next came partial deafness, then dizziness and vertigo that rendered him unable to walk, work, sleep, or even communicate. When he is first told that his debilitating condition is likely Ménière’s Disease but that there is “no reliable test, no reliable treatment, and no consensus on its cause,” Cotter quits teaching, stops writing, and commences upon a series of visits to doctors and treatment centers.” 

We meet in the evenings on Zoom (with computer/AI captions). For more information about the book club, please email Laura Hagemann (HLAA-TC Social Media Specialist) at social@hlaatc.org.

Zoom registration links are placed on our website a month before the corresponding book club meets.