![]() ![]() I've learned something about myself, I think. ![]() Yes! Yes, that's right! It is like that!Īs someone who ticks almost every privilege checkbox there is (cis, white, heterosexual, male), I've never fully understood why folks sometimes gravitate towards folks who are "like them." But now I think I get it. It has its consequences– some of which are illustrated quite well in the novel– but it's not something I often worry about.īut as soon as I started reading about this character who was "like me," I was wholly connected. As handicaps go, being deaf in one ear is not very difficult to live with. Part of the reason I enjoyed it so much is that the protagonist is deaf in one ear, like me. In one sense, it feels like a Victorian novel, but in another sense it feels different. It's an historical novel that takes place in the 19th century, but it's simultaneously thoroughly modern. I just finished reading The Secrets of Hartwood Hall, the debut novel from Katie Lumsden of Booktube fame. ![]()
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