lbelow's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
I wish I had read this book as a teenager. As an adult, I still consider it an essential read, but this is the diary of a teenage girl, with all the moodiness, conflict, and curiosity that entails. Had I read it as a teenager, I feel like it would have resonated with me in a different way.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Grief, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Genocide, Alcohol, Vomit, Terminal illness, Excrement, and Cancer
Discussion of periods, physical description of female genitalia.flowerowl's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
I loved it! Such a unique look into someone's, but especially a young struggling girls (or women's like how she felt it) mind. things and time are so different, yet the emotions and experience are so the same. Things almost every girl growing up feel, but never says or even sometimes dares to think of, she wrote down and expressed so purely and real (not knowing others would read it). It gives room to think all the while reading on the state of self, families, groups, Country's and cultures, without being imposing or philosophical. I would recommend it to anyone, but especially to other girls/women who feel trapped or stuk what ever situation or place.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Confinement, Mental illness, and War
Moderate: Bullying, Sexual content, and Blood
Minor: Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Violence, Cancer, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts
maess's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, and Religious bigotry
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