Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

28 reviews

shann32's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Beautifully written, deeply informative, and a unique insight into a job that is full of contradictions and difficult emotions.
Reading this has given me a new perspective on aspects of global conflict and mass murders that have occurred and are currently occurring around the world. The narrative focuses strongly on the lasting and complex impacts that genocide has on the survivors and people who are left behind when family members are dissappeared.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Torture, Sexual violence, and Violence

kefink's review

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

Resonant and deeply moving. Absolutely a must read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Grief, Violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and War

vigil's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Genocide, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Torture, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Child death

jessmbark's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

This book is difficult to read at times, yet is simultaneously gripping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Genocide, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and War

Minor: Animal death, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

pickledbeez's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Death

natmids's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Torture, Murder, and Genocide

caidyn's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This is a book to read slowly. I wanted to read it chunks at a time. I had no idea about most of this. What a thought provoking read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Police brutality, Torture, Genocide, Confinement, and Violence

eegred's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

bookbrig's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I learned so much from this book, and it made me want to go back to reread The Bone Woman by Clea Koff. I only knew the very vaguest details about the history this book recounts, so I'm also hoping to read some of the books mentioned in the text for more context and info. This is a moving mixture of memoir and history and testimony and witness to atrocities that feels particularly timely, though I suppose it is unfortunately timely at any given moment. It's not a light read, but it is a really well written one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Death, Child death, Medical trauma, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Torture, Confinement, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

mslaureeslibrary's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Child death, Child abuse, Racism, Genocide, Sexual assault, Torture, Slavery, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, Death, Confinement, Classism, and Antisemitism