#URC prompt “blind author.“
I was reading There Plant Eyes for this prompt (I wanted fiction but couldn't find anything easily obtainable) and it gave me a yen to read this, a book which is largely a defense of a deaf-blind person's right to use language and have an imagination. You can feel Keller's frustration, even as she tries to maintain a positive outlook -- no one is interested in what she has to say unless it's about her disability.
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There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness 6mo
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of BlindnessTheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 5mo
Faranae Even I resorted to Helen Keller for that prompt because I don't have time to go scaring up something else. Well, I used Lafcadio Hearn for the #FRC prompt, at least (he was fully blind in one eye and slowly lost vision in the other - his move to Japan was partly because he was no longer able to see well enough to draw the illustrations that kept his newspaper afloat). 5mo
willaful @Faranae GoodReads really let me down on this one. 5mo
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