HLAA-TC Book Club was on break for December 2024 and we are resuming meetings starting on Tuesday, January 28th at 7:00 pm. We are meeting to talk about the memoir “Sitting pretty: the view from my ordinary, resilient, disabled body” by Rebekah Taussig (nonfiction), BARD: DB 101063. Tuesday, January 28th, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Central Time [ZOOM-Register Here]. Amazon Book Summary: “A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older…”

HLAA-TC Book Club often reads books about hearing loss or deafness and we also frequently read books about other disabilities, January’s book is one such book in that there isn’t a discussion of hearing loss or deafness. However, the themes that Rebekah covers certainly are universal for all disabilities, including hearing loss: shame, isolation, social anxiety, etc.

Note: Rebekah was unable to join us, however we look forward to what is always a great discussion amongst ourselves. Please Register To Receive The Zoom Link.

Book Club hasn’t announced the 2025 books yet, but you can see a schedule of when we meet and books we’ve read in the past and guests we’ve had previously on our webpage: https://www.hlaatc.org/book-club/

Our Book Club and several other HLAA Book Clubs were featured in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Hearing Life magazine (the HLAA magazine). Read that article here.

As always, if you have any questions about HLAA-TC Book Club (anyone can participate and all book clubs have captions), please email Laura Hagemann, social@hlaatc.org