Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

O Diário de Anne Frank by Alves Calado, Anne Frank

15 reviews

fresh_tepid_snoozed's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Some notable quotes:

"For one fleeting moment I thought, 'Him and his lies. I'll smack his ugly mug so hard he'll go bouncing off the wall.'"
"And keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Antisemitism, and War

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

buzzinfly's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Physical abuse and Torture

Minor: Alcohol

kristinetp's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

she really was just a young girl …  with a complicated relationship with her mother and her body and her sexuality. She was so articulate and well spoken, I was nothing like that at 13. 

happy late pride month, Anne Frank 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Antisemitism, and War

Minor: Sexual content

thirdtimesacharm's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Antisemitism, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Sexual content, and Death of parent

featheredpages07's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

So eyecatching, interesting and thought provoking, literally could not place this book down. Currently she has written the only book that I have read from cover to cover in one sitting, while in Normandy France as well! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

naomidanae's review against another edition

funny informative tense medium-paced

4.0

There’s not much to say about this book that hasn’t already been said. Anne Frank is a precocious writer, with many deep things to say for so young a person. It’s heartbreaking to read certain passages knowing what happened to her. Some editions might do this, but I wish there’d been a narration at the end explaining what happened to the family and the rest of the annex. I never read this as a teen, so it was something I wanted to read this year as my “at least one classic a year” book. 

Some quotes:
“No one wants to see the danger until it’s staring them in the face.” 

“The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature’s beauty and simplicity. As long as this exists, and that should be forever, I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances. I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.” 

“…until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Antisemitism, and War

Moderate: Genocide and Sexual content

brooketreads's review against another edition

challenging sad medium-paced

I read this for one of my college classes. But, honestly, it felt wrong considering what Israel is currently doing to Palestinians. The correlations are staggering.
With such an old book, I’m not sure if I have anything else of value to say that someone else hasn’t already said. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Talks about breasts and a full out (rather thorough) description of the female genitalia.

lrl06's review against another edition

emotional funny informative lighthearted tense medium-paced

3.5

“People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things“ is one of the beautiful things she wrote with this one being just a month before she was captured, on July 6th 1944. Such intelligence and emotional maturity strikes from this young girl to write with such knowledge on both herself and the world around her. Her essence of normalcy in such hard times really advocate for her personality.

The reasons this weren’t a five star review from me is because I didn’t exactly find myself completely compelled to go onto the next page nor do I think I would have typically picked up a book about a 13 to 15-year-old’s life besides the political and historical context. For the context however, I think this is a vital read to understand just one person’s perspective of eight people in this mass genocide.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, and War

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Misogyny and Sexual content

venetiana's review against another edition

I've read the original so many times, and the book is so, so dear to my heart. I physically couldn't bear to listen to it with this narration.

It sounds so much like badly acted contemporary German theatre, it almost felt disrespectful to Anne's thoughtful, vulnerable, honest, sensitive writing.

I sincerely hope you read it before you venture into the German audio book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Antisemitism, and War

Minor: Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Deportation

greenan26's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Antisemitism, and War