[Oabs] Favorite books

Sun Oct 5 11:47:59 UTC 2014

Oh dear. I am usually more careful...

Aleeha Dudley and seeing eye dog Dallas 
Vice President, Ohio Association of blind students
Blindcowgirl1993 at gmail.com
"The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." Arabian proverb 

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> On Oct 5, 2014, at 5:07 AM, Deborah Kendrick <dkkendrick at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Aleeha, 
> I do hope you dictated this message, which would account for the spelling of
> Janet Evanovich's name.  Please lookbelow at your own message (with braille,
> if possible) and see what is kind of funny on this list, but could be
> disastrous if, say, you were answering the same question from a potential
> employer!  
> Don't worry.  We're all family here.  I'm not criticizing.  Just pointing it
> out so you will be aware of potential pitfalls!
> Deborah
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oabs [mailto:oabs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aleeha Dudley via
> Oabs
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 8:59 PM
> To: Kaiti Shelton; Ohio Association of Blind Students list
> Subject: Re: [Oabs] Favorite books
> 
> Although they are a little targeted toward younger people, I love the
> Redwall series by Brian shock. I also love Sue Martin's new book, out of the
> whirlpool. It's a great memoir about her journey through a suicide attempt,
> and her ability to get on her feet after losing her vision. I also love
> anything by Jay. D. Rob, all of the in death books. They are wonderful
> murder mysteries. John Grisham is another great offer.you can also try some
> of the stories by Janet Ivana bitch, some of my favorites ever.those are
> just a few off the top of my head.
> 
> Aleeha Dudley and seeing eye dog Dallas Vice President, Ohio Association of
> blind students Blindcowgirl1993 at gmail.com "The wind of Heaven is that which
> blows between a horse's ears." Arabian proverb 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> On Oct 4, 2014, at 12:37 AM, Kaiti Shelton via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Just to stir up some discussion on here, and because I'm always 
>> looking for new and interesting reads, I am wondering what your 
>> favorite books are.  There's a challenge to list them going around on 
>> facebook, but I thought discussion of the books would be a lot more 
>> productive and a lot less awkward.  So, I'll start with mine.  I would 
>> appreciate any suggestions or replies with your favorites too.
>> 
>> Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen,
>> The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Crucible by Arthur 
>> Miller.  (I always think of these two together since they're both kind 
>> of similar).
>> The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.  One of the best recent books 
>> I've read.  If John Green would continue to focus on writing stuff 
>> like this, or stuff for slightly older young adults rather than the 
>> high school stuff in Paper Towns, he'll continue to be awesome.  I 
>> liked Paper Towns, and no offense to you if you do more than TFIOS and 
>> think I'm crazy, but it just didn't have depth to it, and the ending 
>> was disappointing.
>> Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.  Really great if you like 
>> mystery/suspense/thriller stuff.  The book twists and turns a lot.
>> The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.  Very good, so much 
>> better than the movie.
>> If I Stay by Gayle Forman.  Another really recent book that I liked.
>> It's a tear-jerker though.
>> The Outsiders.  Made me think of stereotypes seriously for the first time.
>> Harry Potter, because it's Harry Potter.
>> Handle With Care, Sing You Home, My Sister's Keeper, or basically 
>> anything by Jodi Picoult.  She is really good at taking really 
>> controversial issues in society or medical ethics, bringing in a 
>> little courtroom drama, really getting in depth about family and 
>> marital issues, and being sensitive to multiple characters and their 
>> points of view at the same time.  Handle With Care is one I just 
>> finished not too long ago and loved.  I'm about a third of the way in 
>> to Sing You Home, which has a music therapist as a main character, and 
>> I'm loving it so far.
>> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.  This is another book I started 
>> reading, but it is a little difficult to get into.  One of my 
>> housemates says its her favorite book though, but when you're first 
>> getting into it you have to bear in mind that the story is being told 
>> from the point of view of a young kid with Autism, so it seems a 
>> little disjointed until that piece of information helps everything 
>> make sense.  It's post-9/11 fiction, and the boy's father was killed 
>> in the World Trade Center.
>> Watchmen.  I read this for my English class, and though it was a 
>> graphic novel I loved it.  Unfortunately it is not available in 
>> braille; my version of reading it was watching the videos of the 
>> chapters of the motion comic DVD that somebody uploaded to YouTube.
>> If you're bored and want something about superheros, mystery, a tale 
>> when you don't know if the good guys are actually good, it's pretty 
>> good.  It's also really deep if you get into the political commentary 
>> and the allegory about the societal problems, but you guys don't have 
>> to write a paper on the thing.
>> The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks.  Anything by Sparks is good, but 
>> this one is one of my favorites.
>> A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines.  Really good book.  Looks 
>> at racial discrimination in the south around the 40s I think.  Really 
>> makes you question what strength really is, what a real man/person is 
>> like, and oppression.
>> 
>> I think this is a pretty good summation of my old and new favorite 
>> books.  Like I said, any additions to this thread would be awesome.
>> 
>> --
>> Kaiti Shelton
>> University of Dayton 2016.
>> Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy
>> President, Ohio Association of Blind Students Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta 
>> Sigma
>> 
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