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A review by andeedevore
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Christina Lamb, Malala Yousafzai
5.0
I had been wanting to read this book for quite a while, as I greatly value education and felt this would fit nicely into my international development portfolio of books. I was not disappointed.
There are so many wonderful things I could say about this memoir. I loved it, as I expected I would, and discovered two new personal heroes in Malala and her father, Ziauddin. I could go on and on about the lessons I learned from them and their experiences, but I will just say that I hope I can one day have even just a fraction of the amount of love, humility, courage, wisdom, and perseverance they have displayed throughout their lives. Malala is the definition of forgiveness and a shining example of using our trials to help others, and Ziauddin is an illustration of how persistence and belief in oneself can positively change the world. I truly believe the world would be drastically changed for the better if we all viewed people the same way Malala and her father do: that each person has the right to an education and, through that education, the potential to do good.
There are so many wonderful things I could say about this memoir. I loved it, as I expected I would, and discovered two new personal heroes in Malala and her father, Ziauddin. I could go on and on about the lessons I learned from them and their experiences, but I will just say that I hope I can one day have even just a fraction of the amount of love, humility, courage, wisdom, and perseverance they have displayed throughout their lives. Malala is the definition of forgiveness and a shining example of using our trials to help others, and Ziauddin is an illustration of how persistence and belief in oneself can positively change the world. I truly believe the world would be drastically changed for the better if we all viewed people the same way Malala and her father do: that each person has the right to an education and, through that education, the potential to do good.