Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

5 reviews

bookshelf_al's review against another edition

challenging informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Slavery, Confinement, Death of parent, Child death, Abandonment, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Cannibalism

Minor: Domestic abuse and Abortion

marissab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Death, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Classism, Grief, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Child death, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Slavery, Deportation, Terminal illness, Torture, Xenophobia, and Gun violence

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

this is another one of those books that ive read that i really dont know what to say because it really does speak for itself. i really appreciate how in depth it went into everything because North Korea really isnt a country i knew much about going into it and the atrocities that went on there, so this book is quite invaluable in the knowledge it has

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Emotional abuse, Suicide, War, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Medical content, Abortion, Addiction, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Deportation, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Sexism, Slavery, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Pregnancy, Torture, Trafficking, Colonisation, Murder, Racism, Rape, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, and Drug use

Moderate: Excrement and Cannibalism

bknee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.0

A surprisingly engaging and emotional ethnography. I think this book could be liked even by people who are not academics because it’s just the story of 6 North Koreans lives

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Death, Police brutality, and Confinement

stevie's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, Domestic abuse, Excrement, and Gun violence