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M. Leona Godin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Writer, performer. Author of There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness from @PantheonBooks. Founding editor @ArPoMag. 🧑‍🦯😎

4 books
Book Cover for: Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Erving Goffman

Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Erving Goffman
M. Leona GodinM. Leona Godin

Super stoked to publish this article by friend, fellow blind author, and the one and only, Jim Knipfel, about books, blindness, stigma and the great sociologist, Erving Goffman... “All the World’s a Stage: Thoughts on Erving Goffman” by Jim Knipfel https://t.co/PLOI8Y0JWn

Paperback, 1986

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines, Cassandra Leah Quave

The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines

Cassandra Leah Quave
M. Leona GodinM. Leona Godin

Huge thanks (and healing wishes) to Alice Wong @SFdirewolf for alerting me to The Plant Hunter, a great scientific memoir about diversity, disability, and more by Cassandra Leah Quave @QuaveEthnobot! #HappyDisability Pride Month #EbooksAreAccessibleBooks https://t.co/nFyVKIAvUB https://t.co/z10azUFWN5

Paperback, 2022

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus
M. Leona GodinM. Leona Godin

I’m not a huge fan of writing book reviews for books I love because my head explodes at the thought of trying to say it all without giving anything away… Enter the footnote! Here’s my first... Footnote on ‘Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel’ by Bonnie Garmus https://drmlgodin.com/2022/06/footnote-on-lessons-in-chemistry-a-novel-by-bonnie-garmus/

Hardcover, 2022

$29.00Member price:$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness, M. Leona Godin

There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness

M. Leona Godin
M. Leona GodinM. Leona Godin

Delightful to chat with the brilliant Maggie Nelson at the @BrailleInst last Wed! Perhaps the best moment came when the crowd and I gave her a Braille lesson with the hand-Brailled copy of #TherePlantEyes! Thanks to @ChevaliersBooks for supporting the LA event with books! https://t.co/2ngSlSEAtr

Hardcover, Large Print, 2021

$37.95Member price:$18.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book