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A review by knod78
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
3.0
I wanted to read this book for so long now and I'm glad I did. She had an interesting story and life and I loved reading about Pakistan history. I honestly didn't know that the area was of Buddhist religion.
My problem with the book was the writing itself. It was equivalent to what I do when I first write a draft of anything...I word dump. I'm actually surprised they published the book written the way it was written. Where was the editor? I mean she would be talking about competing with her friend on a test or how she liked mangoes and then the next sentence (same paragraph) talk about the military dictator in exile. It didn't have any transition at all. There was no organization to the chapters. It wasn't until the last couple of chapters where it followed the timeline of her being shot, the various hospital stays, and then her life in England. In fact, the Epilogue was the only chapter to have less word dump.
I kept reading the book, because like I said, the story is interesting. But I'm not sure I recommend it. The book was at times hard to follow and I was annoyed most of the time reading it, because of the sentence structures alone. But it does give you an insight to Pakistan after 9/11 and how girls / people were treated and how the Taliban took over so easily.
My problem with the book was the writing itself. It was equivalent to what I do when I first write a draft of anything...I word dump. I'm actually surprised they published the book written the way it was written. Where was the editor? I mean she would be talking about competing with her friend on a test or how she liked mangoes and then the next sentence (same paragraph) talk about the military dictator in exile. It didn't have any transition at all. There was no organization to the chapters. It wasn't until the last couple of chapters where it followed the timeline of her being shot, the various hospital stays, and then her life in England. In fact, the Epilogue was the only chapter to have less word dump.
I kept reading the book, because like I said, the story is interesting. But I'm not sure I recommend it. The book was at times hard to follow and I was annoyed most of the time reading it, because of the sentence structures alone. But it does give you an insight to Pakistan after 9/11 and how girls / people were treated and how the Taliban took over so easily.