azhang113's review against another edition
3.0
I liked the idea, but I had more pressing books that I wanted to read and this just bored me... I may pick it up to read again later. c:
kylana's review
3.0
This book was hard to get into but at the same time easy to read. Honestly it just felt a little longer or perhaps a little more wordy then it needed to be.
mikolee's review
2.0
Mixed feelings about this memoir of growing up in Midwestern Irish Catholic family. Eileen is the middle of her ten siblings, born without legs she finds multiple ways to succeed. She felt most free when swimming without her artificial legs hence the title.
The entire book feels a bit like an assignment from a therapist as a means to deconstruct and then come to turns with a big complicated family.
I'm sorry to say that I just didn't feel her storytelling technique. At one point she mentions she tried to kill herself. And I thought Huh? I must have missed something through speed reading. So I checked back and reread and found that it really is just kind of thrown in there.
Seems like she had interesting stories and a challenging family situation and could have used a good co writer.
The entire book feels a bit like an assignment from a therapist as a means to deconstruct and then come to turns with a big complicated family.
I'm sorry to say that I just didn't feel her storytelling technique. At one point she mentions she tried to kill herself. And I thought Huh? I must have missed something through speed reading. So I checked back and reread and found that it really is just kind of thrown in there.
Seems like she had interesting stories and a challenging family situation and could have used a good co writer.
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