Reviews tagging 'Violence'

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

53 reviews

eve81's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, and Religious bigotry

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Animal cruelty, Classism, Medical content, Murder, Sexism, Animal death, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Grief and Gore

elisalasater's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Violence, and Gun violence

pale_salem's review

adventurous emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Violence

eib_21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, War, Child death, and Religious bigotry

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.25

This book was fascinating, and I am in awe of Malala's spirit, faith, and drive. My major issue with it, however, is that I can see - very clearly - that Christina Lamb collaborated on this. It reads, at many times, like a history of Pakistan (specifically a history of Pakistani relations with the West). It feels as though information about Malala, her family, and her experience are tossed in here and there, rather than the other way around. I realize that some of that is so Western readers have context, but I think it went into a distracting amount of detail. I would love to read something Malala has written on her own, without a hovering need to make Westerners understand every bit of it via overexplanation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Misogyny, Violence, War, Death, Gun violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Xenophobia, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Torture and Animal death

-Colorism (many asides about skin lightening) -Suicide in the context of suicide bombing -Political assassinations (both attempted and succeeded) -Terrorism

kilonshele's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Gun violence

ebearfinch's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

so i even need to explain the 5 star rating????
in all seriousness, this book is wonderful and i highly recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Spoiler

this book is AMAZING

anneebel's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, War, Violence, Medical content, and Medical trauma

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Blood, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Stalking, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Body horror, and Animal death