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3.8 AVERAGE
I read this book way back in my early years of middle school.
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I loved learning a little more about Helen Keller. The writing is easy to get into, and I loved getting a sense of how she experienced the world. I do wish she had explained more about the process of lip reading and hand spelling. She does touch on it briefly later on, but it would have been helpful to have that context earlier in the book. Also, while I enjoyed how positive the tone was, I personally would have enjoyed learning about the difficulties her disabilities caused. The only time you get even a hint of that is during her college exams. I understand she wrote this when she was 22, so it only goes to that point, but I would have loved the story of her life to cover more of her life into adulthood.
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One of the best ways to handle adversity in life, is to observe how others handled the adversity in theirs. I try to always have a Biography/Autobiography in my stack of books that I'm reading for reasons such as this. It's more than a history of a fellow human.
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An autobiography written by Helen Keller. It follows her life up to the summer after her second year of college. I learned some interesting facts about her life.