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Sei Porque Canta o Pássaro na Gaiola by Maya Angelou

6 reviews

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

fbmzh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

The picture it paints is so bold yet the writer's softer heartedness is reflected in her style, or should I say her kindness....its beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

balfies's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I'm teaching Maya Angelou next week, so am doing a self taught crash course this week. This really is an impeccable memoir - the writing feels alive and contemporary, but this was published in '69. Angelou is a brilliant writer, she can really depict the quality of childhood with clarity, and can communicate intimately the heartbreak of poverty and the vicious normality of racism. If this is the quality of her purpose, I can't wait to read her poetry!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Pregnancy

nico_lechat's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Police brutality

Minor: Murder and Pregnancy

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Car accident, War, and Classism

Poverty, WWII, concentration camps, Japanese displacement, homelessness, d slur.

michaelion's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

One thing that makes it hard to get through nonfiction is that it is often pure and objective fact, nothing but hard statements and the evidence to back it up, but Angelou writes in a way that doesn't just feel the way a memoir / autobiography would, like someone telling their life story, but in a way that is colorful and bright and fluid like fiction usually is. Well, good fiction at least.

And on a personal note a lot of moments hit a little tew close to home. I'm not gonna list them but not me and Miss Dr Angelou living the same life having the same experiences feeling the same feelings!!! I had to put the book down a couple times and cover my face!!!

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Racial slurs, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Fatphobia, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Abortion