Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

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

26 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

mikebond's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

I can split this book into two parts: the first part deals with Pakistan's history and politics, the second with Malala as a girl.
I found the first part interesting but slow and sometimes boring. On the other hand, the last 30-40% of the book touched me deeply, and I read the last few chapters at a much faster pace.
Definitely a must-read book for the role model Malala is for lots of people all around the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings and Gun violence

Moderate: Police brutality 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

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

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

chaya_v's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.5

I’ve been wanting to read this book for years but had never come around to it. This book was a great reminder of how important education is and how we still have a long way to go before every child gets to go to school. But it’s also encouraging to see how someone can dedicate their life to fighting for this right. Her story is very inspiring and I’ve really enjoyed reading about her perspective on life in general as well. 

This would be a 5-star book but I just had a hard time at some points to get through the more information packed chapters. I understand of course that the history and politics matter but it was sometimes hard to assimilate all the information.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Hate crime, Gun violence, Sexism, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Murder

tiastravels's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, War, Religious bigotry, Grief, Gun violence, Death, Murder, Violence, and Misogyny

TW: Chapter 27 - surgery & injury (graphic)

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