German reread: Ich las dieses Buch, weil ich Deutsch üben muss. Ich habe das Buch bereits vorher gelesen, aber in Bosnisch, und ich habe gedacht, dass das Original besser sein muss. Ich war nicht enttäuscht.

Do you want to remember how beautiful the world seemed when you were younger? Read this book.

There I was, bored yet too tired to have my eyes focus on something in particular, when I was reminded of this story that I loved so dearly as a child from watching the anime. I haven't read many children's books in my life as I wasn't an avid reader at all until later in life, so I'm a bit wary of reading books whose target audience I'm not technically included in, so I decided to listen to this one on audiobook, which was narrated by Teresa Gallagher, and boy am I glad I did.

Not only was Gallagher's narration wonderful and captivating, but the story really hit me on my nostalgic nerve and I miss the summers I spent in Greece as a child (I watched the anime whenever I was in Greece, which is why I made that connection). I think children's stories can be so delightful to read when you have a certain history with them, which sadly I don't have with a lot of stories, so this one really made me feel content and warm as I lied there watching the world outside my window grow darker. Forgive my most likely different than usual way of reviewing a book, but the style the translation was written in is stuck in my head.

I'll finish this off the same way I started it: do you want to remember how beautiful the world seemed when you were younger? Read this book.

This book is 200 pages too long. It could have ended at the halfway point with some semblance of a story. The moral is to love Heidi, for she is just such an earnest and eager little biddy, and praise God, for he will give you the use of your derelict, atrophied legs back.

"A breath of fresh air".

I listened to a LibraVox recording of this. It was enjoyable -- very calming in a way, and I liked the descriptions of Heidi's mountain. It was way more moralistic than I remembered from my childhood/viewing various movie versions of it. Also, Heidi got on my nerves a little bit as an adult. Still, good listening, especially really early in the morning while riding the bus.

One of the only books they had in English in Switzerland, so I was essentially forced into reading this or talking with my travel companion (which was out of the question). Had a really weird conclusion at the end that asserted Swiss mountain air and fresh milk could cure paralysis, but otherwise was fun and surprisingly unproblematic.