[MD-Sligo] Annnoucing the Date and Time of the Sligo Creek Book Club's November virtual meeting

[Jeff Baer]

Dear Sligo Creek Book Club Members and all Sligo Creek Chapter Members,
The Sligo Creek Book Club will be meeting virtually on Sunday, November 19 at 2:30 pm to discuss "Touch the top of the world: a blind man's journey to climb farther than the eye can see: my story" by Erik Wehenmayer. More book details are provided below. The book club chose this book in honor of this month being Blind Equality Achievement Month. Full book details are below and there is still plenty of time for you to start reading the book if you wish to join us for the discussion. Even If you do not finish the book, you are still welcome to join us for the virtual discussion! Just tell me you'd like to receive the invite! I already know that we will have at least a half dozen people participating and perhaps twice that number. Any other Sligo Creek chapter members who would like to join us should RSVP to me and I will then know to send them the meeting's call-in information. Everyone who has previously participated in the book club will automatically receive the meeting details from me, unless they contact me to opt out. I just finished listening to "Touch the top of the world" and recommend it, especially the first few chapters, which center on a personal experience of coping with vision loss.
Best wishes to all, and looking forward to being together at tomorrow (Saturday's) in-person chapter meeting!
Sincerely,
-Jeff Baer
  jabaer811 at outlook.com
Cell phone: (410)499-0143
Book Details section:
Our November book: Erik Wehenmayer's, "Touch the top of the world: a blind man's journey to climb farther than the eye can see: my story " (summary description is further below)
Duration: 12 hours and 3 minutes:
BARD/ NLS Access: DB 51505 (also available via Amazon's Audible subscription service)

Our December book discussion (date and time to be determined) will be on "I am Malala: How one girl stood up for education and changed the world " by Malala Yousafza (more details below)
Our January book discussion will cover Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" by author: Jesse Q. Sutanto (more details below)

Good Reads description of "Touch the top of the world: a blind man's journey to climb farther than the eye can see: my story" by Erik Wehenmayer.
"Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoschisis, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life.
In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment-and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would restore her son's sight and the father who encouraged him to strive for that distant mountaintop. And he tells the story of his dream to climb the world's Seven Summits, and how he is turning that dream into astonishing reality (something fewer than a hundred mountaineers have done).

>From the snow-capped summit of McKinley to the towering peaks of Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro to the ultimate challenge, Mount Everest, this is a story about daring to dream in the face of impossible odds. It is about finding the courage to reach for that ultimate summit, and transforming your life into something truly miraculous."

Our December book selection:
3) "I am Malala: How one girl stood up for education and changed the world "
Author: Malala Yousafzai
Duration: 4 hours and 55 minutes
BARD/ NLS Access: DB 79878 (also available via Amazon's Audible subscription service)
Good Reads description:
"When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.

Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.

I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world."

Our January book selection:
"Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers"
Author: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Duration: 10 hours 44 minutes
BARD/ NLS Access:  DB# 113039  (also available via Amazon's Audible subscription service)
Good Reads description:
Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective?
Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet).
But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer.
Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth."

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