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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May book club will be meeting on the different day of Thursday, May 29th (still at our usual time of 5pm Western/ 7pm Central/ 8pm Eastern Time). We will be discussing the memoir “Soundtrack of Silence: love, loss, and a playlist for life.” By Matt Hay with Steve Eubanks. Author Matt Hay will be joining
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HLAA-TC Book Club met on Tuesday, January 28th to discuss the memoir-in-essays “Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body” by disability advocate Rebekah Taussig. The author was unable to join us but we did have a nice discussion with our group and welcomed new participants. Summary of January Book Club: Author
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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.
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The next book club is on Tuesday, September 24th at 7:30pm to 9:00 (we’re starting a half hour later than normal). As mentioned, we are welcoming author Josh Swiller to talk about his memoir from 2007: “The Unheard: A memoir of deafness and Africa.” (Note: we link to the Amazon page only to show which
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HLAA-TC Book Club met Tuesday June 25th on Zoom when author Claudia Marseille joined us to talk about her memoir “But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World.” The book was just released in May and if you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, our book club was raving
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Reminder of the upcoming HLAA-TC Book Club meeting on Zoom this Tuesday June 25th at 7:00pm (Central Time). We will be discussing the memoir “But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World” By Claudia Marseille. Author Claudia Marseille will be joining us! (So get your questions ready for Claudia!) Zoom Registration
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For the next Book Club (on Tuesday, June 27th, at 7:00 pm Central Time, meeting on Zoom) we will be having the author join us. Henry Kisor will join us on Zoom to answer our questions about his memoir “What’s that pig outdoors: A Memoir of deafness.” It is a skillfully written memoir about living
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On Tuesday, October 25th the HLAA-TC Book Club met on Zoom to discuss the October book selection: the novel “The Quality Silence” (2015) By Rosamund Lupton. (Author Rosamund Lupton was unable to join us.) The group enjoyed a varied and interesting discussion on themes related to the book, including deafness, isolation, the environment and technology.
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HLAA-Twin Cities Virtual Book Club is meeting on Zoom to discuss the memoir “Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir” by Kambri Crews. Author Kambri Crews will join us for our discussion. Our April book club got pushed out to Tuesday, April 26th from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (Central Time). We are discussing “Burn Down
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