Reviews tagging 'Murder'

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

34 reviews

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

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

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

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

booksngrannies's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Medical content, and Murder

itsjadenbaby's review against another edition

challenging inspiring slow-paced

3.0

It’s a very inspiring, true story but something held me back from falling completely in love with the way it was told. Girls everywhere should be thankful for Malala and everything she’s done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, and War

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Classism and Deportation

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)