Reviews tagging 'Blood'

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

18 reviews

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

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

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

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

itsjadenbaby's review against another edition

challenging inspiring slow-paced

3.0

It’s a very inspiring, true story but something held me back from falling completely in love with the way it was told. Girls everywhere should be thankful for Malala and everything she’s done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Violence, Gun violence, Sexism, War, and Medical content

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Deportation and Classism

kibbles15's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

All I can say it wow! This is well written memoir about Malala Yousafzai and her family. From this memoir, all I can say is what an amazing family. I highly recommend this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, Violence, Medical content, Murder, and Medical trauma

Minor: Suicide

andrikkk's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, and Medical trauma

mariareviews's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Malala tiene un alma muy linda y es en definitiva alguien a quien admirar. Con tan solo diez años ya aspiraba a cambiar el mundo que la rodeaba… espero esté viviendo una vida pacífica rodeada de quienes la aman.
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Malala is a beautiful soul and truly someone to admire. Barely 10 years old and aspiring to change the world around her… hope she lives a peaceful life surrounded those who love her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Stalking, Violence, War, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

jfield351's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

2.75

This book took me a few months to finish just because it was so sad and therefore hard for me to read. It’s obviously nonfiction so everything in this book was the truth. It was also very slow paced. But the story was very inspiring, and it was so interesting to see how different the culture is in Pakistan to the culture where I have grown up. So in summary, story was enlightening, writing was good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Racism, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, War, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Child abuse, and Blood

eglizmas's review against another edition

Memoirs are really not my thing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Blood