47 -- A Character With A Disability

[Lindsey]

Books in this category will feature a character (or characters) with a disability. There are many different types of disabilities, including physical impairment, sensory impairment, cognitive impairment, intellectual impairment, mental health disabilities, various types of chronic disease, etc.

[Katrina]

Still Alice

[Melissa]

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon —-Fergus lost his hand

[Jeanette]

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

[Julia]

What an amazing woman, and though I may see her injuries as a disability, she proves everyday they are not to her. Inspiring.

[Sarah]

I plan to read ‘Disfigured’ by Amanda Lexus which is a non-fiction book looking at negative portrayals of disabilities in fairy tales, looking at everything from The Brothers Grimm to Disney. I’ve heard great things about it.

[Erika]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[Kara]

Motherless Brooklyn

[Mandi]

Flowers for Algernon

[Carla]

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year Old Boy with Austism by Naoki Higashida

[Eileen]

Golem Girl is a memoir that would fit this category

[Denise]

Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

[Lindsey]

The Reckless Oath We Made

[Laura Louise]

I just finished Elephant in the room By Tommy Tomlinson. I chose the audiobook. I thought the narration was well done, and the subject was interesting to me. Tommy is from the Charlotte North Carolina area where I live. The book portrayed his lifelong struggle with food addiction and morbid obesity.

[Suzi]

I am reading All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr for this one.

[Steph]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

[Rachel]

So many good choices here. This is why I keep changing my mind on the books I'll read for each prompt

[Tanya]

I read Every Note Played by Lisa Genova, about a man who gets motor neurone disease.

[Heather]

I am thinking about reading either Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc or Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper. Both of them seem like an interesting read.

[Kerrie]

Just finished The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion- fictional, beautiful and funny account of a man possibly on the autism spectrum.

[Liberty]

I just finished Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker. I was trying to decide which category it will fit best, and I think this is it.

[Mariana]

John Dies at the End A girl is missing a hand and supposedly she's intellectually impaired

[Aelish Jyn]

The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Brown
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved it

[Brianna]

For the Brandon Sanderson fans, his new novella Dawnshard qualifies. So does any other Stormlight Archive book that has Rysn in it :)

[Lynn]

Love Without Limits - by Nick Vujicie - is the one I selected.

[Ben]

Completion Post:

Just finished reading: "The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism" by Naoki Higashida (★★★★☆), is an autobiographical novel written by Naoki Higashida, a nonverbal autistic person from Japan and translated by K.A. Yoshida and David Mitchell.

Higashida's narrative has a clarity and wisdom that is surprising for such a young person (he was thirteen when he wrote this book). Other times the reader is reminded of his age, when he earnestly pleads on behalf of himself and others with autism for understanding and patience. The result is a mixture of invaluable anecdotal information, practical advice and whimsical self-expression.

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I read a Mind Unraveled by Kurt Eichenwald, he chronicles his journey with Epilepsy and the struggles he had with being properly diagnosed. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ read for me, he spoke so much of what I felt as a teenager and young adult struggling with Epilepsy. So this book was simply amazing for me!

[Shonna]

Midnight Cab by James W. Nichol. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2021...

[Louise]

I Am Pilgrim features a character with Down Syndrome.

[Carol]

I listened to Sitting Pretty by Rebeka Taussig. It is written by a disabled teacher who was paralyzed when she was 3 years old. Excellent!!!

[Traci]

I read A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline I really enjoyed this book while several of our book club members were so so on it. I think I liked it more because I taught my son's elementary class about the painting as part of their art awareness program so I had an attachment to the painting

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[A]

Just finished Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys. One of the main characters (Al Barker) lost a leg in an accident.

[Noelia]

Float Plan

[A]

Rogue Moon

[Stina]

The Face of a Stranger features a detective with amnesia (traumatic brain injury).

[Jayme]

The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf

[Anneli]

The Bone Collector

[Kim]

A Horse for Kate by Miralee Ferrell. The main character's little brother is autistic.

[Eliza]

The Twins of Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor

[Emily]

How Lucky by Will Leitch. The main character has Type 2 Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

[Brother Stephen]

The Shining

[Melissa]

The Book Charmer - Grace's foster mom has dementia

[Lindsey]

I read If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim, 3 Stars

[Elizabeth]

Some one added Howl’s Moving Castle to the Listopia for the prompt, but I'm not sure which character has a disability.

Does anyone know? I'd really love to read it for my challenge!

[Brother Stephen]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

[Sofia]

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (brain injury)
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Asperger's)

[Tracy]

I read The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby. A memoir of sorts. He had a stroke and became a quadriplegic. He managed to "dictate" this book to someone who would speak each letter of the alphabet until he blinked his eye (the one thing he could move) to indicate that this was the next letter of the word he intended for the writing. Even just knowing this makes this a worthwhile read.

[Whitney]

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

[Cassie]

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Completed: August 23, 2021