Myopic

This myopic bookworm has become even more myopic this year. I seem to be regularly upsizing the font sizes on my computer and most of the websites I visit or use. I have found that instead of trying to carry on with the smaller size due to awkwardness or similar I have to swallow my pride and just explain I cannot see things unless they are clear and larger.

I have almost finished reading 'My Life in Middlemarch' by Rebecca Mead. I cannot tell you much about it as I fell asleep listening every night, perhaps an indictment on the narrator but it does making getting to sleep easier. Much preferring Thomas Hardy to George Eliot I confess I have never read any of his books.

Last night I finished 'Leave Me Alone I'm Reading', another book I flicked through on my kindle as the further through I got the more I became bored with the book. I started reading:
 
Sara is one of my Facebook friends and I am looking forward to reading this book but needed something a little more serious as the evening wore on so chose:



Adventurous international teacher, Amy Bovaird, is diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary eye disease that will blind her. In spite of that, she manages to continue teaching overseas. Then her father’s final illness brings her back home for good. There, friends and acquaintances begin to notice that she doesn’t always recognize them and sometimes stumbles…as if drunk! Insensitive students ridicule her in the classroom. Unwilling to accept that she is truly losing her eyesight, Amy resists when the Bureau of Blindness schedules a mobility specialist to begin training her to use a white cane. How can she, an independent world traveler, use something that screams ‘I am a blind person’? Will her faith prove strong enough to allow her to move forward and accept herself as she is? 

This is a subject of great importance to me although I do not have Retinitis Pigmentosa. I only read the first few pages on my kindle but it looks to be an interesting book.

This morning I heard the author of this book interviewed on Rural Report on Radio New Zealand. I went straight to Amazon and purchased it but having just looked at it on Goodreads I am a little disappointed to find it is only 35 pages long and cost me $NZ11. I hope there is a mistake somewhere as this does not seem very fair.

 



This is my journey through grief and depression after losing our 17 year old daughter to suicide. I would like anyone else in the same position to know that you are not alone, that we all grieve differently and that it's okay to do things your way.

As I am in the process of trying to write a similar book I feel I need to see what others are writing about the loss of their children to suicide. This is a very difficult subject and there are few up-to-date books on the topic. Perhaps this will encourage me to increase the amount of writing I do each day.