Can You Feel the Noise?
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‘A wonderful book about overcoming a life-changing event and the remarkable power of music.’ – Lisa Thompson, author of The Goldfish Boy
Life is going well for Sophie. She’s getting by at school, has some pretty awesome friends, and their band have made it through to the semifinals of the Battle of the Bands competition.
But when Sophie wakes up completely deaf one morning, the life she once knew seems like a distant memory. With lessons replaced by endless hospital appointments, and conversations now an exercise in lip-reading, Sophie grows quieter and quieter. Until she discovers the vibrations of sound through an old set of drums and wonders whether life onstage is actually still within reach.
Drawing on the author's own hearing impairment, Can You Feel the Noise? is a deeply personal and moving story that will stay with you long after reading.
Praise for Can You Feel the Noise?
‘Powerful, moving and uplifting. This beautifully-told story highlights the gift of perseverance.’ – Polly Ho-Yen, author of Boy in the Tower
‘A moving, empathy-boosting, and hopeful story about a young musician navigating hearing loss.’ – Rashmi Sirdeshpande, author of Think Like a Boss
'A sensitive and brilliant story of hearing loss, full of humour and hope.’ – A. M. Howell, author of The Garden of Lost Secrets
Stewart Foster
Stewart Foster is an adult and children's novelist, born in Bath. His books have won multiple school and library awards and are recommended by Empathy Lab and Reading Well. His first adult book, We Used to be Kings, was published in 2014, to the accolades of being selected as The Observers' Author to Watch, and Amazons' Rising Star, in the same year. His first children's book, The Bubble Boy, was published in 2016, winning Sainsbury's Children's Book Award in 2016 (Age 9+) and many schools and libraries awards, as well as being nominated for The Carnegie Book Award. The book was published as BUBBLE, in USA and has been translated into eleven languages. Since then, Stewart has written four more children's books – All the Things That Could Go Wrong, Checkmates, The Perfect Parent Project and Can You Feel the Noise?
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In his second memoir Connor Franta lets his audience into some insights of his life. Through short personal essays and poems he describes hope, heartbreak, and life. I don’t think I’ve related to another fellow millennial for a while now. I’ve never been a part of the selfie culture or vlogging business basically social media adept in general. I knew of Franta because of his ties to another YouTuber I watched on and off many years ago but his name stuck with me as one of the many YouTubers that “came out” in close succession almost four years ago, if I’m not mistaken. But he’s actually a pretty good writer. I didn't read his first autobiography, assuming that's what it was, so all I know is the now that he described.There’s something universal about a first love and the heartbreak that comes with it. It’s always unexpected and no matter how hard or how little you try to make it work it's just as heartbreaking when it ends. Then there’s a matter of personal identity, who are you when you end it? I was personally touched by Franta’s struggles with depression. It just happens and sometimes giving yourself a pep talk is only going to make it worse by the anxiety that creeps up with it. It was really refreshing to read about someone else’s experience with seeing a therapist because it really does help. Someone who has no personal ties with you and can extract thoughts that you need to let out can be a relief whereas when a personal family member tries to do the same they can end up rejecting those wayward thoughts.The poems were a nice attempt at being deep but they weren't very memorable.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5this book is a mixture of a journal, poetry and photography brought to you by Connor Franta. Connor is a young gay man that deals with heart break and depression through his writing and observations. If you are into that whole poetry thing right now (the princess saves herself, milk and honey, etc..), you will like this book. Lovely photographs. a few of my fave excerpts: "I'll keep moving forward because standing still is not an option. You don't find your happy places in life without putting one foot in front of the other.""sometimes the quiet ones are yelling on the inside.""I desire to be the single pink door on a street filled only with tones painted unmemorable.""I don't think people find themselves until their lost only then does their journey begin."
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This piece of art left me in a daze. An emotional daze. I wont lie and say I was a little worried leading up to this books release. Originally when Connor announced it on his youtube channel I was extremely excited. I am a huge fan of his, and appreciate his aesthetic. I think he is an extremely artistic, and visual person, and I am drawn to that incredibly. However, lately (leading up to the release) his material he was producing felt extremely self promoting, and had very little artistic value to me. It seemed more and more every video or post or tweet, or whatever was about, "Hey go buy my book," instead of adding to the narrative. So, naturally I became a little less excited with each passing week.However, despite all that, this book left me stunned and speechless. It was, to put it plainly, beautiful. The word seems inadequate, yet, I fail to find another word to give it justice.This piece, unlike his first memoir, felt raw and uninhibited. He says in his forward that his first work was what he wanted people to see, and this work was what he was truly feeling in the moment, and it was SO evident and so wonderful. I connected with him on so many things, and felt a closeness to the work that I haven't felt in awhile. His prose about heartbreak and depression especially, stuck with me. He wrote about both with such truth and vulnerability that I couldn't help but fall in love. He opened up in these pages in a way that was completely unexpected and probably very difficult to do. I think that opening ourselves up in such a raw way, and simply sharing our truths, for what they are in the moment we are feeling them, is powerful, and important and beautiful.The addition of Connor's poetry and photography only helped to create what I consider truly a piece of art, that this memoir is.Simply, wonderful.Also, totally random side note, I am now the FIRST person to review BOTH of his books here on Librarything!! It feels pretty great!