Posted 19 February 2012 in more books archive /0 Comments
- Child of the Jungle by Sabine Kuegler
- Published: 1954
- Genre: Autobiography
- Why I picked it up: Can’t remember, read about it somewhere and it sounded interesting
- Rating: 3 stars
- Challenges: TBR Double Dare
- My Thoughts:
- An easy breezy read, short chapters relaying little stories – I haven’t read a book like this in awhile so it was refreshing.
- The author notes that she had never considered writing a book about her experiences until encouraged to do so, and so this book emerged as a reflection of her past. These circumstances are pretty noticeable with regards to how the story is told. It does feel like a friend is recounting memories from her past that she hasn’t thought about in a long while. While that is totally fine, it’s not really the type of story I prefer to read. Somebody else would probably enjoy this book more than I did.
- I found it very sad how her family grew apart, how she clearly longs for what she experienced as a child but can’t go back to that…
- I do think she had a fascinating childhood (dur, who wouldn’t?) and so the subject matter of the book was very interesting but the execution wasn’t really for me.
- Overall, a nice little read but nothing too great. This for me would be ‘beach reading’ ;P
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