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The story is elapsed in a small city named vermont, in the winter time. The story is told by Connie (main midwife’s daughter) who is 14 years old. Sibly, who is a midwife without license, made a mistake with a mom, who's name was Charlotte. She thought that Charalotte was dead, during the birth of his child, so Sibly tried to save Charlotte’s baby, but she wasn’t dead. After that, Sibly started with a trial that it continued for years. The trial finished leaving Sibly on liberty.
Reading a novel is very challenging, one of the reason is because you don’t know if the novel you will like it, because it is hard to choose a book when you don’t know anything about the author’s life, so it is hard to figure out if you will like it or not. For example, when I had to choose a novel for ESL I had two books in which I was interested, but I didn’t know which book read, so I chose one of them because it was a leading book, the other book is mine, so I have more time to read my own book. However, I made a mistake because I could have chosen a good book if I had searched something about those book, like author’s life or time that the story is elapsed, something that it had helped me to choose correctly. Also reading a novel could be a challenging because it can have a hard vocabulary which is difficult for you to understand the story or to keep enthusiastic to read it. For example, in my case this book at the beginning it had a lot of vocabularies that I didn’t know but in the middle it resulted easier. That helped me to keep reading it. So, as we could noticed reading a novel is hard and it takes time, don’t give up easily just keep on it.
Moreover, with this novel I can emphasize too many benefits, like I could figure out that I can read a novel, I could understand almost everything, and also I could read faster. As I wrote before in the beginning it was hard read this novel for the vocabulary that it has but in the following chapters it was going easier.
As a result of that I could read faster and it helped me to improve my vocabulary and my reading comprehension too.