Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Mirjam Pressler, Anne Frank, Otto H. Frank

28 reviews

fransisu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Antisemitism, and War

buzzinfly's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Physical abuse and Torture

Minor: Alcohol

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

redheadorganist's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Genocide, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Toxic friendship, and War

Moderate: Death, Excrement, and Deportation

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, and Blood

erinsbooknook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

I am glad I read this. I wanted to learn about Anne and her situation. What happened to her was disgusting. Reading her diary, she seemed like an intelligent and loving person. It was hard to get through at times, as she wrote about mundane things a lot. It wasn’t completely what I expected, but I learned a lot. However, I wouldn’t read it again. RIP Anne.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Murder

jjb21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking account. 

It’s much more than the traumatising history I expected. In some ways it’s a charming coming-of-age story. Hearing the very real trials and tribulations of a ‘normal’ 13-year-old - stuck in a room with a bunch of ’stupid’ adults - can, at times, be very funny and charming.

But it has a menacing countdown throughout, and the final pages were always going to have me in tears.

But it’s as inspiring as it is depressing. Faced by the worst events imaginable, Anne is so wise and forgiving. She writes beautifully about life and love and humanity and hunger and purpose and society and family and friendships. And the Dutch people who support those in the Annexe are a source of great hope for the future.

I hope we’ve learned from this period of history.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Excrement, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, and War

sarah_amy's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Now I know why most people read this book at least once in their lives. Anne's self-awareness, reflection, compassion, ability to self-soothe, and still find gratefulness in her life in one of the most horrific times in history is so humbling. She held onto her own convictions and self-worth with such strength, no matter how hopeless and lonely things became. So many of these qualities I'm only just getting the hang of in my 30s. Again, truly humbling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

rushh's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and War

Moderate: Chronic illness, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

paperkindle's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Violence, and War