Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, Laura L. Sullivan

5 reviews

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Genocide

Moderate: Animal death

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Genocide, War, and Death

Moderate: Rape and Hate crime

danajoy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This is one of the most important books I've ever read.

I can't say I knew much about the atrocities that occured in Bosnia just a few years before I was born. It was never taught in my schools (possibly just mentioned in passing while we studied the Holocaust). It is deeply upsetting that I didn't know much at all about this, especially when it all occurred recently. Amra was 16 in 1992, when the Yugoslav Wars came to her home city of Bihać. 

The brutal realities of war are blatant in this book. I wasn't expecting the risk of r*pe to be so blatantly addressed in the opening chapter in a "YA" book. War and l ethnic cleansing aren't shied away from. 

It's very well written. Its a good starting point for education about the war and genocide. I found myself researching places and events every time I put the book down. 

Read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Islamophobia, Genocide, Grief, Violence, War, and Animal death

Moderate: Rape and Animal cruelty

Minor: Alcohol

nitya's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Read for MLIS elective

RTC when I stop sobbing

And I don't know why this is under the graphic novel shelf. For the record, this is a prose memoir! The only picture is of Amra and Maci (the cat), which also is a section/time divider. 

Content warning: Islamophobia, war, violence, death (it's a theme), genocide, rape (not to the narrator/author but it is mentioned), animal death, sexual harassment, humans being terrible and cruel*

*Probably my inner nihilist talking but I will include it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Animal death, Child death, Islamophobia, Death, Genocide, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape

Minor: Confinement

peeniewallie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Death, Child death, Rape, Islamophobia, Misogyny, and Genocide

Minor: Animal death and Medical content