Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

208 reviews

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

angiebks's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

jessmaealbe20's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

loved the way she wrote in her voice. it sounded genuine and she covered a lot of tough topics gracefully. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming and Religious bigotry

Minor: Pregnancy

lots of trigger warnings but an important book to read in one's life

leseratte69's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Very beautiful and poetic despite there being some traumatising explicit experiences.

This book is one of its kind as a literary autobiography. As it’s a coming of age story, the chapters  seem more like short stories. I found myself getting lost in the detail and so found it harder to be absorbed in the story. 

Quotes I found wonderful were:
‘One girl, whose name and face have melted into the years’
‘He was forever dropping slangy terms into his sentences like dumplings in a pot’ 
‘Bailey was the greatest person in the world. And the fact that he was my brother, my only brother, and I had no sisters to share him with, was such a good fortune that it made me want to live a Christian life just to show God that I was grateful.’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abandonment

c1nsz's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

bfab18's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: 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

solid_circle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Pregnancy

katherine_ffrench's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual 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