Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

8 reviews

corsetedfeminist's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

I genuinely don't know how to begin to write a review for this book. 

In many ways, this book is both to story of a girl forced to be an activist far before her time, and the story of her people, her country, both during her life and before. 

I expected to cry, but I didn't- I just felt the deep ache of the story- of injuries, deaths, imprisonment, and the deep grief of colonization stealing your land. It almost feels like a crime to even try to summarize events that Ahed describes in such sorrow infused bluntness. 

However, I will mention two parts of the book that hit deeply- firstly, her account of finishing her senior year of high school while in an Israeli prison for slapping a solider, including one of her fellow prisoners wrangling a course in international law for the girls to take. The description of the girls slowly realizing that what had happened to them was not only wrong, but illegal, broke me, especially balanced with their understanding that those international laws can't help them. Secondly, Ahed ends the book, despite the grim reality she is writing in, with a firm belief that Palestine will be free in her lifetime, and a poignant description of the joy and elation that will sweep the country when that freedom is won. I often struggle to hold onto hope for the future, and I didn't grow up under apartheid, so seeing her strength was incredibly inspiring. 

All in all, I would go so far as to consider this book required reading for anyone looking to understand Palestine and support the Palestinal resistance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

amaranth_wytch's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

zombiezami's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Vomit, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

brynalexa's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Palestine will be free. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and War

streberkatze's review

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

4.0

In her memoir, Ahed Tamimi tells the story of her life and resistance struggle within the context of Palestinian history and the resistance struggle more generally, which makes this book accessible for readers with different levels of background knowledge. Even though none of the information in the book was new or surprising, it hit me hard. Reading about the never-ending brutalization and killing of Palestinians, including children, in the news is one thing. But hearing about it from a young woman who has lived — and continues to live — the horrors herself and has refused to give up in the face of them has had a lasting impact on me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual harassment

fireinherveinzz's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Profound informative read . Nothing is sanitized for your comfort the truth is there for you to read and now watch take it or leave it . The time is now to act and stand for a free Palestine and end to this continued genocide. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and War

diannasbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This memoir was so powerful. I spent the majority of the book ugly crying. It opened my eyes. Due to the current situation going on in Palestine, I went searching and found this book. I had no idea the horrors they are going through and have been going through for 75 years. Please pick up this book. It is so powerful and moving. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Vomit, Islamophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Gore, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Excrement, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Classism