Give me a good book to stick my nose in and I’m happy. Let me write about it and I’m even happier.
Called When the Skies Return, it features the Tenth Doctor, Captain Jack Harkness, and Donna Noble. It is set in my own little AU after Journey’s End, and it has drama/angst as well as humour and some fun. Posted on my fanfiction.net profile, thegrumblingirl.
David Lodge: Deaf Sentence.
Desmond Bates. A Story of Hearing Aids, Academical Groupies, and Suicide Notes Never Written.
What it says on the tin:
Being deaf is less an affliction than a sentence… Retired professor of linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. Not suddenly, but gradually and – for him and everyone nearby — confusingly. It’s a bother for his wife, Winifred, who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed when e visits his hearing-impaired father, who won’t seek help and resents his son’s intrusions. And, finally, there’s Alex. Alex is the student Desmond agrees to help after a typical misunderstanding. But her increasingly bizarre and disconcerting requests cannot — unfortunately — be blamed on defective hearing. So much for growing old gracefully…
