On My Own: The Journey Continues

I enjoyed reading this book. Written for 7-9th grade reading and comprehension level, Sally Hobart Alexander's story of triumph over her blindness will appeal to all age levels, including the adult reader. This book is the sequel to her first autobiography, and follows Hobart's life after leaving a residential school for the blind, where she takes a job as a teacher, and she learns to live her life as a blind adult who was once fully sighted.

I myself have a blind sibling and this book was a great insight into the challenges a blind person faces living in society in this modern era. This personal account of Sally Alexander's experiences as she lost her sight gave me a better understanding about being blind and learning to cope with the challenges that accompany it. This book, which accounts many obstacles that she had to overcome as she tried to live a normal life, opened my eyes to many aspects of life that I never realized were so effected by blindness. I highly recommend this book to those who want to know what it is really like to live with blindness, a sense that most of us take for granted.