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naslhita 's review for:
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers
This book makes you confront situations we all want to turn a blind eye to. A memoir which storytelling is compelling and always even slightly analyzed by the author herself. Showing that not all is black and white.
It did feel from time to time that there was a bit too much self-explaining of the whys of her actions in some situations that turned me off during those chapters but then very quickly reminded me that I was not reading a fiction book, those explanations were the guilt process of an author putting her story out there (the good and the bad) to convey and expose things we all know are there but prefer to watch nice videos online to forget (myself included).
It's hard to rate a memoir, my only comment was that the audiobook's narration was too slow for my taste, so I had to listen to it speeded up to really grasp what she was saying without getting sleepy or distracted. 4.75/5
It did feel from time to time that there was a bit too much self-explaining of the whys of her actions in some situations that turned me off during those chapters but then very quickly reminded me that I was not reading a fiction book, those explanations were the guilt process of an author putting her story out there (the good and the bad) to convey and expose things we all know are there but prefer to watch nice videos online to forget (myself included).
It's hard to rate a memoir, my only comment was that the audiobook's narration was too slow for my taste, so I had to listen to it speeded up to really grasp what she was saying without getting sleepy or distracted. 4.75/5