This unique first-person account offers a window into the mind of a high-functioning, 31-year-old British autistic savant with Asperger's syndrome. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors and textures and performs extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak a new language in a week and can recite more than 22,000 digits of pi. He has the most unimaginable mental powers, much like those protrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film "Rain Man."
Discussion sessions will be held: 
MONDAY Jan. 25 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Bradner Library, Livonia
TUESDAY Jan. 26 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Bradner Library, Livonia
THURSDAY Jan. 28 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Radcliff Center, Garden City
Pageturners is Schoolcraft College's Book Discussion Group. Discussions and events are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the community. Copies of "Born on a Blue Day" are available at a 40% discount in the Student Activities Office and at the Radcliff Center. For more information visit http://sites.google.com/site/scpageturners/. In February, Pageturners will be discussing George Orwell's classic, "1984."
Daniel Tammet is a writer, linguist and educator. A 2007 poll of 4,000 Britons named him as one of the world's “100 living geniuses.” His website company, Optimnem, has provided foreign language instruction to thousands around the globe. He lives in Avignon, in the south of France.
Schoolcraft College is a public two-year college offering classes on the Livonia Campus, Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile Roads; the Radcliff Center on Radcliff Stree in Garden City; and online at www.schooclraft.edu.