Tag: sign language

Your Voice Can Make a Difference

July 10, 2024

Disappointment. That’s my immediately thought after finishing A Song Below Water. Our book club, DEAFinitely Readers, choose this book to read for June – after all, it’s summer, so a black siren book that has ASL representation was a must. Sadly, the ASL representation was really used as gimmick. It was a way to get…
Misunderstanding to Madly in Love

May 10, 2024

This is one of the first books that I’ve read that’s had a specific hard-of-hearing character. Not a deaf character, but specifically hard-of-hearing. “Hearing aids don’t fix ears, they only amplify sounds.” The Un-Arranged Marriage by Lauren Brown In this book, both main characters represent something – Shaina (female) represents a person with hearing loss,…
Tangled Threads and Unraveling

April 29, 2024

Princess. Magic. Deaf. A young adult novel filled with magic, adventure, and even a little romance with warring nations. “A little danger adds to the feeling of adventure, doesn’t it? This was the first DEAFinitely Readers book club read! Unravel by Amelia Loken Marguerite is a deaf princess in a world where her uncle would…
The Right Kind of Representation

April 9, 2024

This. This is the story that I have been waiting and searching for. The kind of book that has not only a great Deaf representation but also has a great plot. The dialogue was witty, there was believable romance (even with “instant love”), and a trope that I love to read – fake dating. The…
Book Review: True Biz

September 21, 2023

“Imagine telling someone that learning French would ruin their kid’s English, hurt their brain. Usually people scoffed at her and February would nod. It did sound ridiculous. And yet, though fear of bilingualism in two spoken languages had been dismissed as xenophobic nonsense, though it was now desirable for hearing children to speak two languages,…
Book Review: Give Me a Sign

July 11, 2023

I love reading books with Deaf and hard-of-hearing characters. I want to read them and any that are recommended, I read. I do this because I want to see my experiences, my culture, within a book and relate to a character. If I take it book and solely review it on is it a true…