Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Päiväkirja by Anne Frank

58 reviews

booksanna's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

A sad story of a bright girl, killed by the horrors of Holocaust and war. This could also be a coming of age story because of how much Anne changes throughout 2 years in the Annex. Really eye-opening and heartbreaking story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Antisemitism

Moderate: War

Minor: Death

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.0

Very interesting and very sad especially the afterword. I learned and read parts of this in school, but never the whole thing. I do have to say don’t go into this expecting like an action packed diary because it’s not it’s this poor girls diary where she shared her preteen/teenage thoughts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and War

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Genocide, Sexism, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and War

cereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, and War

okarenhelena's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Racism, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, and Medical content

polly_lilith's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and War

josephinewillow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

I decided not the give this book a proper rating as I just wasn’t comfortable with doing so. But this book was heartbreaking and inspiring. For such a young girl she had beautifully profound thoughts and taught many lessons that I think everyone could learn something from. If Anne was able to grow older, I am certain she would have continued to be a courageous, self aware and loving individual and turned out to be an incredibly talented and successful author! 💗💗

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Antisemitism, and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Genocide

leialou's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Key Themes: 

War; Fear; Coming of Age; and Love.
 

Best (or Worst) Moments: 

I really loved the moments in which Anne talked about her emotions and mental health. It only makes sense that a young girl in the prime of her life, who has been forced into hiding would feel panic and fear and suffer from periods of depression and I love how frank she was about her feelings. 

Was this Book What I Expected?: 

I watched the film years ago in school so kind of knew what to expect, but I love that Anne’s diary alongside illustrating her life in hiding, also outlines all of her emotions and her experience of puberty and development into mature teen. 

Review: 

I really like Anne’s writing. I find that non-fiction novels don’t usually engage me but Anne’s diary had me gripped. I listened to the audiobook narrated by Helena Bonham-Carter, which was really well done which further added to the experience. The diary was complex, sad, funny, ad delved deeply into relationships in close quarters. 

Things to Research Further 

I really enjoyed this book - would love to read more books about other individuals’ experiences of the war. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Terminal illness, Excrement, Antisemitism, and War

miaaisha's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

The first few pages felt quite repetitive in my opinion.. Anne's self reflection in her diary entries were so heartbreaking to read. As a 15 year old, I find that they're maturely expressed. I think that the hopefulness during such oppressive circumstances makes us emotional knowing what is to come. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Antisemitism

Moderate: War

nina17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Hate crime, Violence, Antisemitism, and War