https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/160400256978/by-grand-central-station-i-sat-down-and-wept-byAll about feeling. Lyricism, poetry, decoration, or rhetoric; nothing matters if the body cannot feel words strongly and with intimacy. There is no use comparing this work to Ray Carver’s as the style is so c...
Like many of these, "I went through something harrowing" memoirs, this isn't something you read because you want great writing. The writing here is stilted and oftentimes repetitive, and I'm willing to be forgiving of that because it's important to tell the stories of regular, non-writer people who ...
I picked this book up for two reasons, first: Elizabeth Smart and I are about the same age, I remember being 13 when she went missing and thinking how weird it was and seeing it on the news a lot. Second I'm trying to finished up the 2015 popsugar reading challenge and one of the challenges I was ha...
First the good. On her rescue. Pro - Good that she was reused. Con - That she didn't thank the people who rescued her, but the god of her religious delusion. Saying that her god saved her means that her god have the power to save all other kidnapped children but didn't save them and let them...
This book is so unlike anything I've ever read. At only 112 pages, I should have been able to get through it in a few hours, but it took me a a couple of days. I found myself reading and re-reading pages several times in order to appreciate the prose and to try and grasp the sub-text. I also went ...
I listened to this on audio, and while I was riveted by Elizabeth Smart's story and the horror that she endured, I have to agree with others who admit to having problems with the book itself.The audio is narrated by Elizabeth Smart herself, who very often took a sarcastic tone when reading parts whe...
I probably should have stopped reading this early on when I realized that it would be somewhat of a religious book. Well, not like the bible or anything, but the author pretty much thanked God for getting her kidnapped, and so I should definitely have stopped reading at that point, because Milla + r...
In college I had to read a book about resilience and what makes some people bounce back from horrible tragedies while others fall into despair that leaves them broken. My Story by Elizabeth Smart could be a great companion piece to that book. Rather than a prurient sinking into the gory details it f...
Don't get me wrong, this is a good book, a good story, but the writing isn't my favorite. And maybe I happened to take away a star because I read [Book: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban] immediately after reading My Story, and while both stories are so fa...
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