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The Choice: Escape Your Past and Embrace the Possible by Edith Eva Eger
3.5
hopeful sad medium-paced
"How can I be useful to you?"

"How can I support you as you take responsibility for yourself?"

I had expected The Choice: Embrace the Possible to really move and inspire me. Instead I was left feeling lukewarm. This is a difficult subject and Edith Ever is clearly a brave, strong, and amazing woman. Her story is split into two parts: the war and her work. There wasn't much new when it came to the war portion. We've heard most of these stories before. The difference here is that these are Edith's stories and Edith's experience of them.
Her recollection of saying her mum was her mum and not her sister, in the selection line is one that I will never forget. It was a moment that was meant to honour her mother, but ultimately ended up sending her to the gas chamber. I'm not sure how one truly manages to make peace with such an innocent, yet tragic, action.
Edith's work now, while interesting, is something I am quite familiar with personally and professionally. It reminded me fondly of those times and of all the self help books I used to buy (and sometimes read) while living in the UK.

Overall, an important story and an okay book. Just not as motivational as I was expecting.
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