Last year’s Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism was a personal favourite of mine. It’s charming, it’s cutting and it’s unquestionably a must-read. This is a book for those of us who have ever felt outside of the norm and for those who worry that these same viewpoints will always make them an outsider.
Yet, if I’m going to compare the book to anything, it’s how aptly it catches the current trials of modern living. Australia’s treatment of indigenous peopleĪt this point, part of me really wants to relate A Room Called Earth with certain other female-led properties with dry humour (you know the ones).Under different circumstances this could seem scattered and exhausting but, instead, it becomes an almost infectious passion as you feel the tension of, well, everything and get riled up reading about the many topics presented, including: To that extent, A Room Called Earth reads like the most articulate and insightful meltdown an autist has ever had as though the author herself has unleashed a tyraid on every topic she has grown tired off. In just a few chapters, author Madeline Ryan (who is autistic herself) has painted a vivid vision of what it’s like to be a young female in Melbourne and, while that can at times come across as isolating and disheartening, there’s something incredibly inspirational in the book’s cynical take which keeps me captivated page after page. Spoken aloud, that admittedly might sound far from the most bombastic narrative you’ve ever heard and, yet, I can’t get over how engrossed I am with this story. However, the narrative itself is built around the reflections and observations the narrator has, while life goes on around her. The novel is told by a young autistic woman as she gets ready for and attends a party. Probably the most well known of all the autism books I am currently reading, A Room Called Earth is something special. As such, today I wanted to share my thoughts and feelings on three of these exciting new autism reads so that, if like me, you want something to sink your teeth into (without a tedious introduction), you’ll know where to go. This is the experience I had when I settled in to read over my backlog of autism books this month and, subsequently, I found that many of the titles I had waiting for me, spared no time hooking me in. For this reason, people will often say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover and many will also add that you shouldn’t judge a book by its first, second or third chapter either. Some books take patience before they really get going, whilst some reserve their best bits for last.
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