After a false start to my reading in the new year I finished my first book just the other day. Slower then my usual start but it seems that I have a few unfinished knitting projects that are monopolizing my free time. Originally, I started out reading Big Boned by Meg Cabot but after muddling through the first 100 pages I put it down to finish at another time. I really enjoyed the first two in this series but this one just wasn't keeping me interested.
A Christmas present from hubby, look me in the eye by John Elder Robison is what I picked up next and thankfully completed. I had first heard about this book when I played in a swap over on bookobsessed.com. I had tried to secure it as my own but unfortunately was not that lucky. The cover is what originally caught my eye but upon further examination I realized that it was about the author's life with Aspergers Syndrome. Aspergers (a mild form of Autism) is a condition that until 20 some odd years ago went undiagnosed.
This was a interesting look into not only into John Elder's experiences both before and after diagnosis as a middle aged adult but also into his family, first written about by his brother Agusten Burroughs in Running With Scissors. Equally funny and heart touching this story was told without sentimentality and maybe because I have some professional experience with Aspergers I found his actions and reactions in certain situations vivid in my mind.
look me in the eye
John Elder Robison
copyright 2007
282 pages
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