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I loved learning a little more about Helen Keller. The writing is easy to get into, and I loved getting a sense of how she experienced the world. I do wish she had explained more about the process of lip reading and hand spelling. She does touch on it briefly later on, but it would have been helpful to have that context earlier in the book. Also, while I enjoyed how positive the tone was, I personally would have enjoyed learning about the difficulties her disabilities caused. The only time you get even a hint of that is during her college exams. I understand she wrote this when she was 22, so it only goes to that point, but I would have loved the story of her life to cover more of her life into adulthood.

prathiba's review against another edition

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hopeful inspiring slow-paced

3.75

other_worlds_than_these's review against another edition

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4.0

When I was 6, we had to pick a person from history to read one of those young readers’ books and I picked Helen Keller partly because I loved her name and also having not gotten glasses yet I could barely see the world around me and I guess as a 6 year old, someone like that was appealing to me.

I always admired Helen Keller and this book really just proves how incredibly smart she was and a very talented writer. I highly recommend this book to everyone; its not only a first hand experience of someone deaf and blind, but also shows how she viewed the world specifically and really humanizes her. She’s not this otherworldly genius who overcame her disability but was human and had human curiosity and had flaws and ideas.

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adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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