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A review by snowie0_0
The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya
fast-paced
2.75
This one is hard for me to rate.
I can't say that I really enjoyed the book, and the other reviewers are correct that this really needed an editor, but overall, I struggle with memoirs, and that's a me problem.
||Caster's insistence that her condition didn't give her any extra advantage seemed silly to me while reading. She even points out that many elite athletes have biological quirks that give them an advantage! That's what make them elite! But when it comes to her, then she didn't have any advantage and it was just hard work.||
Obviously, what she went through sucked, and I am definitely on the "they should've let her run" side. Unfortunately, the tone and writing style didn't work for me.
I can't say that I really enjoyed the book, and the other reviewers are correct that this really needed an editor, but overall, I struggle with memoirs, and that's a me problem.
||Caster's insistence that her condition didn't give her any extra advantage seemed silly to me while reading. She even points out that many elite athletes have biological quirks that give them an advantage! That's what make them elite! But when it comes to her, then she didn't have any advantage and it was just hard work.||
Obviously, what she went through sucked, and I am definitely on the "they should've let her run" side. Unfortunately, the tone and writing style didn't work for me.