Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

33 reviews

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Gore and Grief

eib_21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Religious bigotry, and War

bashsbooks's review

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.25

This book was fascinating, and I am in awe of Malala's spirit, faith, and drive. My major issue with it, however, is that I can see - very clearly - that Christina Lamb collaborated on this. It reads, at many times, like a history of Pakistan (specifically a history of Pakistani relations with the West). It feels as though information about Malala, her family, and her experience are tossed in here and there, rather than the other way around. I realize that some of that is so Western readers have context, but I think it went into a distracting amount of detail. I would love to read something Malala has written on her own, without a hovering need to make Westerners understand every bit of it via overexplanation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Xenophobia, and Murder

Minor: Animal death and Torture

-Colorism (many asides about skin lightening) -Suicide in the context of suicide bombing -Political assassinations (both attempted and succeeded) -Terrorism

kilonshele's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Gun violence

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

chaya_v's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.5

I’ve been wanting to read this book for years but had never come around to it. This book was a great reminder of how important education is and how we still have a long way to go before every child gets to go to school. But it’s also encouraging to see how someone can dedicate their life to fighting for this right. Her story is very inspiring and I’ve really enjoyed reading about her perspective on life in general as well. 

This would be a 5-star book but I just had a hard time at some points to get through the more information packed chapters. I understand of course that the history and politics matter but it was sometimes hard to assimilate all the information.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Murder

tiastravels's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Violence, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, and War

TW: Chapter 27 - surgery & injury (graphic)

kibbles15's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

All I can say it wow! This is well written memoir about Malala Yousafzai and her family. From this memoir, all I can say is what an amazing family. I highly recommend this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

andrikkk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

jfield351's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

2.75

This book took me a few months to finish just because it was so sad and therefore hard for me to read. It’s obviously nonfiction so everything in this book was the truth. It was also very slow paced. But the story was very inspiring, and it was so interesting to see how different the culture is in Pakistan to the culture where I have grown up. So in summary, story was enlightening, writing was good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail