Here is the start of
my list on books about blindness followed by a list of books by one of my
favorite authors, April Henry.
Please enjoy!
Middle
School and High School
Laureth Peak’s father
has taught her to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers – a skill
she’s remarkably talented at. When he goes missing while researching
coincidence for a new book, Laureth and her younger brother fly from London to
New York and must unravel a series of cryptic messages to find him. The
complication: Laureth is blind. Relying on her other senses and on her brother
to guide her, Laureth finds that rescuing her father will take all her skill at
spotting the extraordinary, and sometimes dangerous, connections in a world
full of darkness.
The
number one thing I like about this book is that it doesn’t go too much into
Laureth’s blindness. They only talk about in the first chapter and then it’s on
to other things. And when they did talk about it, they didn’t say anything like
‘how hard it is not being able to see’ or ‘how her life was so difficult’.
Nope. They talked about how other people treated her for being blind, how they
would stop talking to her after they found out. To me, that is the stupidest
thing ever. She’s still the same person you were talking to three seconds ago;
she just can’t see your stupid face.
The
true beauty about Laureth is that she was born blind and wasn’t actually sad
about not being able to see. You can’t miss what you never had. And in a small
sort of way, it might be an advantage. If you can’t see the person, you can’t
judge them by the way they look.
The
story’s plot mostly goes into the details of a coincidence, which I found very
weird. Laureth’s father was writing a book about the science and junk behind a coincidence
and I honestly didn’t understand how someone could write a book on the subject.
I mean, if the book was just a collection of odd and unbelievable coincidence
stories I might be more interested. Which, ironically, this story kind of is.
Even
though I didn’t fully understand the coincidence part of the story, this is
still one of the best books I’ve every read.
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