A review by daws_online
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux by Thérèse de Lisieux

4.0

Enjoyable read! It's a very intimate autobiography that wasn't intended to be read by a wide audience, but Therese's use of figurative language and anecdote is really charming and successfully humanizes one of the most austere and regimented sects of Christianity. She just seems like a real sweetheart, at times the book is funny and at times heartbreaking. Since it was never really intended as a "literary work" in the eyes of the author and was written almost stream-of-consciousness, often it isn't very stylish and it can drift away and lose sense of its own narrative. Even these drifts can be a highlight, though.