February’s book was “Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism” by Elsa Sjunneson Media links related to Elsa Sjunneson Her website Her Instagram A video clip featuring Elsa Sjunneson on the PBS series “American Masters” from, Season 35, Episode 11 ‘Becoming Helen Keller.’ (It runs 7 minutes and 48 seconds and is captioned.) […]
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The February HLAA-TC book club book is the non-fiction memoir “Being Seen: One DeafBlind woman’s fight to end ableism” By Elsa Sjunneson (it is in the BARD/library for the blind as number: DB 105634). Tuesday, February 24, 2026 5pm Western/ 7pm Central/ 8pm Eastern Time. On Zoom with Captions. Free and open to all. Register
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Book club had its November meeting on November 18th and we are skipping December so we won’t meet again until January 2026. On November 18th the book club had Claudia Marseille (author of “But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found In A Hearing World”) and Rachel Zemach (author of “The Butterfly Cage”) for our
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Thank you to those who attended the moderated discussion between Claudia Marseille (author of “But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found In A Hearing World”) and Rachel Zemach (author of “The Butterfly Cage”) for our November 18th HLAA-TC Zoom Book Club. Thank you to both Claudia and Rachel and for volunteering their time and
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HLAA-TC Zoom book club is meeting TODAY on Tuesday, November 18th. It is our last book club of the year (2025) since we take December off. On Zoom at 5:00 pm Western/ 7:00 pm Central Time/ 8pm Eastern Time on the DIFFERENT WEEK: Tuesday, NOVEMBER 18, is a special book club discussion of TWO MEMOIRS, Two Authors
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HLAA-TC Book Club is meeting on Zoom at 5:00 pm Western/ 7:00 pm Central Time/ 8pm Eastern Time on the DIFFERENT WEEK: Tuesday, NOVEMBER 18, for a special book club discussion of TWO MEMOIRS for a Special Program: Two Authors in Conversation: “But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World” (Nonfiction)
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Here is a belated listing of links mentioned and related to the September book club from Tuesday, September 23rd when we talked about the memoir of the first deaf NFL offensive lineman Derrick Coleman, Jr.: “No excuses: Growing up deaf and achieving my Superbowl Dreams.”(Nonfiction) By Derrick Coleman, Jr. We didn’t have the author attend this
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HLAA-TC Book Club met on Tuesday, July 22nd to discuss the memoir “In Silence: growing up hearing in a deaf world” by Ruth Sidransky (no special guests/author attended). Below is a summary with links. Next Book Club: AUGUST 2025: Tuesday, AUGUST 26, 5:00 pm Western/ 7:00 pm Central/ 8:00 pm Eastern Time. By Julia “Julie”Metternich Olson and Colleen Julia
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Thank you to all who were able to join us Tuesday for a discussion with Lisa See on her historical novel “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.” While the book wasn’t our typical hearing loss or disability related book the way that this book illustrated life 500 years ago in China (especially for women) really highlighted
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HLAA-TC Book Club met on Thursday, May 29th and welcomed author Matt Hay to talk about his memoir “Soundtrack of Silence: love, loss and a playlist for life.” Below is a summary with links of our discussion. Synopsis: “As a child, Matt Hay didn’t know his hearing wasn’t the way everyone else processed sound-and like
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