Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Wer die Nachtigall stört... by Harper Lee

63 reviews

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

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

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Classism

uselesspirateraven's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Police brutality

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Sexism, Stalking, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, and Death of parent

mjthomas43's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

lmconway_ak's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Knowing the subject is often triggering, I was prepared and really enjoyed this read. I also really enjoyed this as an audiobook read by Sissy Spacek. The characters are the thing that carry this book, and the writing really brings you into the south of the 1930s. My one dissappointment was the way the sub-plots jumped around, although they make sense in the end and with the POV. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Alcoholism and Bullying

wvelociraptor's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Blud really wrote 300 pages about how a boy broke his arm while having themes surrounding racism and inequality

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Slavery, Stalking, Murder, and Alcohol

ieotter13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

I see why this book is a classic! It’s good - and picked up in the middle. I enjoyed the court case and found the discussion of race to be particularly interesting when read over 50 years later. As someone who’s trying to cover the “classics,” this one was worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Slavery

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

sophiaofbroadmoor's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Sexism, and Grief

lawbooks600's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

Representation: Black and biracial (half Black and half white) characters
Score: Two points out of ten.

I didn't enjoy To Kill a Mockingbird at any point in the book. I saw this one circling my recommendations, making me want to read it. When I discovered my library had this, I immediately wanted to pick it up. Soon enough, it was time to read it, and I initially thought it would be enjoyable, but it wasn't.

Spoilers ahead. I've warned you.

It starts with the first people I see, Scout and Jem Finch, recounting their lives in a small town named Maycomb. Nothing much happens in the opening pages (actually the first 150 pages,) until a court case occurs involving a Black person being accused of assaulting a white person. To say To Kill a Mockingbird was disappointing only scratches the surface of how abhorrent it is. To Kill a Mockingbird portrays a white saviour narrative as the white lawyer, Atticus Finch, swoops in and solves racism for the Black character, Tom. That has to be one of the most unrealistic rendering of racism I've seen. 

To Kill a Mockingbird ignores the fact that Black people and other minorities stood up for themselves to stop injustice and instead sends a message that only white people can stop racism for them. I would've liked the characters if they didn't play the white saviour. All I see is racism from the white perspective, and never hear from any of the Black characters. The last 100 pages weren't much better as all the characters in this fictional composition reflect on what happened, but not before one of them delivers a speech on colourblindness and how race doesn't matter and they are all only people.

To summarise, this piece of fiction from the author initially seemed promising, but when I closed its final page, I felt disgusted. You can read other books concerning discrimination like The Hate U Give instead of this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Full trigger warnings: Assault mentioned, racism, sexism, racist and sexist slurs, gun and knife violence, animal death

annapox's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Mental illness, Misogyny, Slavery, Violence, Antisemitism, Medical content, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

elisabethcasee's review against another edition

inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Death, Sexism, and Classism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury