Reviews tagging 'Violence'

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

66 reviews

pale_salem's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Violence

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 against another edition

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

ebearfinch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

so i even need to explain the 5 star rating????
in all seriousness, this book is wonderful and i highly recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

this book is AMAZING

anneebel's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, and War

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

ireadinbed's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative sad tense slow-paced

4.75

It is always weird rating memoirs, but i will qualify that i read this book aloud to my kid so im reviewing from that perspective. 

The way Malala illustrates her life, upbringing, and personal worldview makes it easy to understand her. 

Even my young daughter got a lot out of what she had to say and i was surprised by how much i was touched by the descriptions of fear. School shootings here in america came to mind often

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual harassment

taylynnmazz's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

saadamansayyed's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

 A poignant exploration of her fight for women's education, culminating in her October 2012 shooting in a school bus, and the traumatic aftermath that followed. Malala's memoir is unabashedly Malala in its spirit — full of honesty and youthful optimism. This updated version includes an update preface and an interview in the appendices.

While people may have different personal opinions about Yousafzai, one thing is clear — her courage and her determination for her purpose is worthy of being inspired of. In spite of all that was done to her and said to her, Malala used her voice for the cause of peace and education.

The book takee us all the way back to 1969, when Ziauddin Yousfazai, Malala's father, school owner, educational activist and her greatest mentor, was born in Shangla. Chronicling her father's early days followed by her (then seventeen-year) life, the book takes you to the beautiful lands of Swat, once known for their magnificence and which were turned into terrible places to be by the miltiant violence in the area.

The book uses simple language to tackle difficult subjects, doing so with maddening elegance and a sense of honesty. The book needs some work on pacing, but when was real life paced perfectly? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail