What I'm Reading This Week - Feb.21,2011 - Love & Autism
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I don't normally a photo on Sundays but I couldn't resist today. Last week I spotted this old guy on the beach happily immersed in his book.
I must confess, I didn't do much reading on vacation. Just two novels including Alice Hoffman's latest, The Red Garden. I liked it so much, I immediately wanted to follow up with more of her words. I'm enjoying her novel The Third Angel. The three interwoven stories of three women who can't help choosing wrong men, explores the timeless alchemy of love.
I'm back to my weekly stack of magazines.
I've just began reading the mesmerizing memoir Twins by Allen Shawn about life before and after his autistic twin sister is institutionalized at age eight. Back in the '50s, even sophisticated families like the Shawns (his dad was the editor of the New Yorker) didn't know much about autism.
I don't normally a photo on Sundays but I couldn't resist today. Last week I spotted this old guy on the beach happily immersed in his book.
I must confess, I didn't do much reading on vacation. Just two novels including Alice Hoffman's latest, The Red Garden. I liked it so much, I immediately wanted to follow up with more of her words. I'm enjoying her novel The Third Angel. The three interwoven stories of three women who can't help choosing wrong men, explores the timeless alchemy of love.
I'm back to my weekly stack of magazines.
I've just began reading the mesmerizing memoir Twins by Allen Shawn about life before and after his autistic twin sister is institutionalized at age eight. Back in the '50s, even sophisticated families like the Shawns (his dad was the editor of the New Yorker) didn't know much about autism.
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 2/20/2011 12:06 PM 
Categories: Baby Boomers, What I'm Reading This Week
Tags: alice hoffman the third angel twins memoir allen shawn beach reads
Categories: Baby Boomers, What I'm Reading This Week
Tags: alice hoffman the third angel twins memoir allen shawn beach reads
Love that photo of the man and his beach read. One day I will set up at a beach in a chair when it is not hot and crowded. Think I'll buy beach chairs just for that purpose, in season.
Oh yes, the Shawn family of the New Yorker. The norm was to instutionalize under the 80s.
People believed autism was a mental illness. Such wrong-headed thinking. I must order this book.
Now to go outside. Day is sunny!
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I felt a bit paparazzi invasive zooming in a distance and yes, to prefer off season quieter crowds. It's why I didn't go during any school break. We've come a long way in treating mental illness and a long way yet to go.
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Yes a long way - in both regarrds. Autism thankfully is now recognized as a neurological disorder, and many live productive lives. Do you know Temple Grandin? She wrote "My Life in Pictures" her grandfather invented autopilot for the airforce, which we know as Cruise Control in cars (I never use cruise). She has autism and wrote her fantastic book. Autism locks within the person the ability to express ideas and emotiona; they are iin the person, but expression is difficult. It is as if a person is mute.
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I adore Temple Grandin. Every animal lover has her to thank for more humane abattoir slaughter. I've read her book and loved the biopic.
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Layla-two novels in a week and you call that "not much reading." How many do you usually read?
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Two to four.
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