A Belated Book Club Summary

Here is the long delayed summary of March Book Club. We met on Tuesday, March 26th to discuss “The Silent House “ by Nell Pattison.

The author didn’t join us but she did send us answers to several of our questions via email. We went through those questions and answers during book club. If you would like to see the Q and A, please let Laura know: social@hlaatc.singlerdesign.com
if you would like to learn about the book, you can view it on Amazon (no plot spoilers are in the Amazon descriptions) and you can read this blog written by Nell Pattison about what inspired her to write The Silent House. This book is Book 1 in a series about British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreter Paige Northwood. Book 2 is “The Silent Night” and Book 3 is “The Silent Suspect.”
This offers a listing of the various police acronyms used in the UK (e.g. DI, DC, etc.)
We talked about Deaf Clubs and social structures of the Deaf Community and I found the following UK webpage of Deaf social structure.
We talked about the different sign languages. I found this interesting website that listed the different sign languages and their differences.
We talked about the roles of interpreters and a previous book that we read that wrote a lot about interpreting and we spoke to the author was “A Loss For Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family” by Lou Ann Walker.
We talked about social classes in Deaf families. A previous book we read by an author we spoke to mentioned this from her perspective as a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults): “Burn Down The Ground: A Memoir” by Kambri Crews.
We talked about gifting audiobooks for the members who typically use BARD (library for the blind) for our June book. (I will send a separate email to those members on how that will work). We will have the author join us. The book is “But You Look So Normal” by Claudia Marseille. It will be released in May and you can preorder now (the book, Kindle book, or audiobook and all will be released at the same time).