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shaunie991's review against another edition
3.0
I wish I would have loved this book more than I did. I feel slightly mislead by the title/cover. Signs of the author’s wife’s schizophrenia really only appeared during the last 20% of the book. I’m sitting here waiting patiently for signs of schizophrenia to appear…
Regardless of this oversight, I did enjoy the book. I didn’t feel forced to finish it. It was still interesting. I don’t know if I would own a physical copy for myself, but I would consider listening to the audiobook again, just to see if I missed any clues leading up to the schizophrenia diagnosis.
(ALC received from NetGalley in exchange for honest review. Thank you!)
Regardless of this oversight, I did enjoy the book. I didn’t feel forced to finish it. It was still interesting. I don’t know if I would own a physical copy for myself, but I would consider listening to the audiobook again, just to see if I missed any clues leading up to the schizophrenia diagnosis.
(ALC received from NetGalley in exchange for honest review. Thank you!)
shaunie991's review
3.0
I wish I would have loved this book more than I did. I feel slightly mislead by the title/cover. Signs of the author’s wife’s schizophrenia really only appeared during the last 20% of the book. I’m sitting here waiting patiently for signs of schizophrenia to appear…
Regardless of this oversight, I did enjoy the book. I didn’t feel forced to finish it. It was still interesting. I don’t know if I would own a physical copy for myself, but I would consider listening to the audiobook again, just to see if I missed any clues leading up to the schizophrenia diagnosis.
(ALC received from NetGalley in exchange for honest review. Thank you!)
Regardless of this oversight, I did enjoy the book. I didn’t feel forced to finish it. It was still interesting. I don’t know if I would own a physical copy for myself, but I would consider listening to the audiobook again, just to see if I missed any clues leading up to the schizophrenia diagnosis.
(ALC received from NetGalley in exchange for honest review. Thank you!)
pharmdad2007's review against another edition
4.0
Thanks to NetGalley for the audiobook ARC!
Love for a Deaf Rebel is a heartfelt memoir that deals with some tricky topics. If you've never thought about how a relationship between a deaf individual and an individual that can hear, it may not seem like there's a lot of cultural differences to navigate. I certainly had never thought about it. The author does a great job of illustrating and educating about just how wide that culture gap can be. And then trying to deal with mental illness on top of that, I can just imagine the heartsickness and sorrow. I learned a lot from this book, and enjoyed the read in the process.
Love for a Deaf Rebel is a heartfelt memoir that deals with some tricky topics. If you've never thought about how a relationship between a deaf individual and an individual that can hear, it may not seem like there's a lot of cultural differences to navigate. I certainly had never thought about it. The author does a great job of illustrating and educating about just how wide that culture gap can be. And then trying to deal with mental illness on top of that, I can just imagine the heartsickness and sorrow. I learned a lot from this book, and enjoyed the read in the process.
jill's review
4.0
This book, set in Vancouver in the early 80's, follows the relationship between author/narrator Derrick and Pearl, the "deaf rebel" of the title, a woman he falls in love with and will later marry. While Derrick begins to pick up on oddities in Pearl's behavior, he doesn't connect them to a mental illness, and only discovers much later that she has schizophrenia.
I appreciated Derrick's honesty; he walks the reader through his relationship as though we're right there with him. I only wish the publisher hadn't chosen to put Schizophrenia in the title. I think the book would have been more effective if the reader went along Derrick's journey in a state of ignorance, much as he did, so that we, too, could be surprised by the mystery of Pearl's increasingly irrational/paranoid behavior. Still, I felt sad for both Derrick and Pearl and moved by their story.
Thanks to Netgalley and Provenance Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I appreciated Derrick's honesty; he walks the reader through his relationship as though we're right there with him. I only wish the publisher hadn't chosen to put Schizophrenia in the title. I think the book would have been more effective if the reader went along Derrick's journey in a state of ignorance, much as he did, so that we, too, could be surprised by the mystery of Pearl's increasingly irrational/paranoid behavior. Still, I felt sad for both Derrick and Pearl and moved by their story.
Thanks to Netgalley and Provenance Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
stacyroth's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.75
<i>Love for a Deaf Rebel</i> is the author’s true story of falling in love with a Deaf woman, whom he later discovered also suffered from schizophrenia. King has changed people’s names to protect them but tells his experience of falling for Pearl, starting with writing notes to each other. Derrick goes on to learn sign language to communicate more effectively with Pearl. We see them fall more in love as the two take a motorcycle trip from Canada to Mexico and Guatemala. They eventually settle down in a house they bought on Bowen Island, and once there, things start to change.
It was hard listening to King’s efforts to help his wife when she so clearly was not willing to receive help. I never quite felt invested in their relationship before things went south. I think, even more than the relationship between Derrick and Pearl, I was really fascinated by the process of their trying to fix up the house they bought. It was crazy, the things that happened. Joe Vaz did a good job narrating the audiobook of the story.
Many thanks to NetGalley for providing me an audio ARC of this book.
pagesofpossibilities's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
slow-paced
4.0
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