Un Amour pas si aveugle by Lena Clarke

[profiterole_reads]

Un Amour pas si aveugle by Lena Clarke was excellent! Romy, a blind piano teacher, and her guide dog Lady move in next to Maëlle and her dog Batman.

This lovely f/f romance first resonated with me because, when I took piano lessons as a kid, my teacher was blind as well. As for Maëlle, she has burn scars and PTSD from when she was a firewoman. She's an ambulance driver nowadays.

For non-French speakers looking for an f/f romance starring a blind woman, I recommend the novella Glorious Day by Skye Kilaen.

Comments

[oracne]

"Her dog Batman" is a great phrase.

[profiterole_reads]

I hadn't thought of it, but yeah! XD

[hippogriff13]

There's an old Golden Age (I think) Batman story in which Bruce Wayne adopts a Great Dane who at one point winds up wearing a cloth mask and accompanying Batman and Robin on crimefighting missions under the name Ace the Bat-hound.

I think Ace actually became a semi-regular character in the futuristic animated series "Batman Beyond." The premise was that it's now several decades into the future and Bruce is too old to fight crime as Batman any more. For some unexplained reason, all of his old Robins are out of the picture, although Barbara Gordon is now Gotham City police commissioner. Alfred is dead and Bruce is basically living by himself at Wayne Manor as a recluse until somehow a high school kid named Terry something whose late father worked for Waynetech/Wayne Enterprises gets hired to come over after school and help Bruce out around the house. Terry discovers that Bruce used to be Batman and winds up using an experimental Iron Man-type Batsuit Bruce had been secretly working on to become a new high-tech version of Batman. In this version Ace is just Bruce Wayne's pet dog--I don't think he's ever dressed up in a mask and taken out as Bat-hound, with the possible exception of some sort of Halloween party.

I'm pretty sure Ace also appeared in an animated movie about the Legion of Super-Pets, or something like that, that came out two or three years ago. I didn't actually see the film, but the commercials for it prominently featured Superman's dog Krypto and a Great Dane associated with Batman.

[profiterole_reads]

Yeah, I've seen Batman Beyond. :-)