Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

161 reviews

hjb_128's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

jessalynedixon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Pedophilia

librarymouse's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Hearing Maya Angelou tell her own story in her own voice was wonderful. She's a gifted storyteller and speaker, and her mastery of language creates a wonderfully vivid image of her childhood for her readers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Lesbophobia and Abandonment

cronareads's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual violence

derekthelizardwizzard's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

I would like to have met Maya Angelou. She seems to have been a great person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

mharrison13's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Rape

fjcrow's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

betag1013's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

tip_be_knowin's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

rachel_o_reads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

Powerful book. I do enjoy Maya's Angelou's writing, and after loving her poetry for so long, I did enjoy this book. It is an important read, although I found some chapters to be a bit too slow paced compared to others. I think I will always prefer her poetry to her prose, but that is a personal opinion. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault