Reviews tagging 'Death'

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

34 reviews

angeldevoursliterature's review against another edition

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

4.0

I want to clarify that my rating is solely for the book and not for Malala as a person.
The book covers Malala's life story in great detail, from her childhood to the time when her family stayed in Birmingham. However, I did face some issues with the writing, particularly with the way the political and historical accounts were intertwined with its personal reflections. Nevertheless, it was still worth reading, and her story is truly enlightening and inspiring. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an eye-opening read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and War

coti_passadore's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Suicide, and Medical content

Minor: War

eve81's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

brysonsmommie84's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

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

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

jessspeake's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

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)

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