Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

173 reviews

fyre_flies's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Racism and Xenophobia

emmiremmidemmi's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Racism

ittybittybookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Minor: Grief

ariajb's review against another edition

It was slow, nothing happened in the bit that i got through besides racism and barely sensical dialogue.
This feels like something you’d have to suffer through for school but since I was trying to read for fun,, I’m stopping 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

op3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Aside from some comments about Indians and assumptions about being disabled, I think this book was enjoyable. I guess the comments about both were supposed to add to the realism of the book and I understand this was written during another time but idk
Still, I think aside from it was generally enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Racism, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Mentions of potential child death.

mckenziesbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

elisabeth888's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, and Colonisation

Minor: Cursing, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

lottyyy's review against another edition

1.0

I don't understand how this is a classic that people keep making adaptations of  it's full of awful children, ableism, racism and a classiest depictions of Yorkshire 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Racism

buzzybuzzybeefudge's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

It’s very Of Its Time and gets a bit preachy but hey I chose to read it as an adult so that’s on me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism and Racism

katie0528's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

A classic children's story I never got to as a kid. It's toothache sweet about Mary who, after the death of her parents, is sent to live in the manor of her reclusive uncle. She finds his late wife's private garden and with the help of a local boy and her cousin who was raised to believe he was a half-step from death himself, turn restore the garden it into a private sancuary. It is a story of the power of friendship and play and positive thinking, but it gets quite mundane with the repetition of the "magic" of positive thinking in the second half.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness and Death of parent

Minor: Racism and Colonisation