Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

17 reviews

fresh_tepid_snoozed's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Some notable quotes:

"For one fleeting moment I thought, 'Him and his lies. I'll smack his ugly mug so hard he'll go bouncing off the wall.'"
"And keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Antisemitism, and War

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

ar__reads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, and War

lalasluvly's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and War

Minor: Alcohol

sissiemilia's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, and War

ellabruce2009's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This book is one of the best books I've read. It's so hopeful and so beautiful. If you haven't read this already, I suggest you check it out immediately. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Deportation

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

I don't know why it's taken me this long to actually read this whole book, but jeez I'm glad I did finally. The history major in me loved this glimpse into the lives of this normal family during such a terrifying time in history for their people.

Anne is just a normal girl in a lot of ways, but her situation has made her so much wiser and more mature. She's also just really smart and a really good writer. It's gutting because every time you think something like this throughout the book, you remember how her story ends. She talks about how she has these big drama to be a journalist and famous writer and you remember she never gets to do that. She gets frustated with her mom (same, girl) and vows to be a better one, but she never gets that chance. She also shares surprisingly deep thoughts on humanity, the war, antisemitism, and so much more.

ALSO it was always weird to me that this book has so often been banned or challenged, I figured it was just holocaust-denier hogwash. But now that I've read the definitive edition HOLY COW I get it. The first time she mentioned sex or menstruation I was like 😦 and then she mentioned women being attractive and I was just completely gobsmacked. No wonder they didn't want people, especially kids, reading this and what a shame they did that for so many reasons.

Oh, and Selma Blair did such a great job as a narrator! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Hate crime, Sexism, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and War

abby_can_read's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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I enjoyed this book. It was hard at times. I knew how the book ended before I started it while this was the diary of a teenage who wrote about her life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Racism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Genocide, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

123erty456's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Racism, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, and War

Minor: Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Alcohol

quills4days's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and War

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.0

Very interesting and very sad especially the afterword. I learned and read parts of this in school, but never the whole thing. I do have to say don’t go into this expecting like an action packed diary because it’s not it’s this poor girls diary where she shared her preteen/teenage thoughts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and War