Title: As I Have Loved You

Author: Kitty De Ruyter

Genre: Non Fiction, LDS, Biography

Published: February 28, 2003

The book starts our during Kitty's childhood living in Indonesia, being in concentration camps, living through wars, moving to Holland, then moving to the US and eventually her joining The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS.

If I managed to view what I was reading as a conversation with someone who is older and has fantastic stories to tell I found myself enjoying the book immensely. Those times where I slipped and realized I was reading a book I found myself getting frustrated with the repetition. I also found myself wanting to know how old she was during certain stories especially during those moments when she would jump to a new story. There were times where I wished she would go into more detail especially about what she was thinking and feeling.

I was impressed with her mother and believe she would have been a really amazing person to know. I was also impressed not all the stories Kitty told about herself put her in the most positive light. Even then she was able to pull morals and positives out of the experiences she had.

Overall I gave this book 4 stars out of 5.