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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
2 reviews
teddereadsbooks's review
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic friendship, Mass/school shootings, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Hate crime, Child death, Racism, Suicide, Grief, Mental illness, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Xenophobia, Gore, and Bullying
katreads2022's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.5
I don’t rate memoirs on content, as I believe it is not my place to insensitively assign numerical values to people’s lived experiences. This review is purely based on structure and readability for a general audience.
This memoir is a devastating exploration of the human psyche and parenting. Klebold is respectful while attempting to carefully navigate the heavy subject of this novel. She advocates for different approaches to mental health services and parenting. Not always convincing in her approach, I in particular disagreed with some of her affirmations about parenting: no, it is not good to search through your teenager’s personal and private journals; no, it is not fair to characterize video games as being a significant contributor to violent behaviour. She makes some assertions bare on evidence interspersed with other cases she is clearly better versed in. I think one can learn a lot from this book- at least to help understand differing perspectives. That being said, the memoir is quite long and Klebold repeats her points at time. This is fine to reinforce an important takeaway, but occurs so many times it becomes repetitive.
A tragic, reflective memoir.
This memoir is a devastating exploration of the human psyche and parenting. Klebold is respectful while attempting to carefully navigate the heavy subject of this novel. She advocates for different approaches to mental health services and parenting. Not always convincing in her approach, I in particular disagreed with some of her affirmations about parenting: no, it is not good to search through your teenager’s personal and private journals; no, it is not fair to characterize video games as being a significant contributor to violent behaviour. She makes some assertions bare on evidence interspersed with other cases she is clearly better versed in. I think one can learn a lot from this book- at least to help understand differing perspectives. That being said, the memoir is quite long and Klebold repeats her points at time. This is fine to reinforce an important takeaway, but occurs so many times it becomes repetitive.
A tragic, reflective memoir.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence
Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Child death, and Grief
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