Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

25 reviews

moonytoast's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, War, Murder, Violence, Police brutality, Genocide, Gun violence, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Torture, and Sexual violence

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

A look at the ongoing efforts to recover the bodies of those murdered during the Guatemalan and Argentinian dictatorships in South American during the 1900s. It's a sad and difficult to read book, and there's just sort of a depth of suffering that comes across so matter-of-factually during Hagerty's recounting of her experiences assisting these teams. It's a hard book to feel particularly hopeful after, though it does feel you with admiration for the people who are actively looking to recover the missing. I also feel like it gives you a more concrete and human understanding of just what it means that the US supported these governments and encouraged this widespread violence. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Violence, and Genocide

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Gore, Classism, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Violence, Physical abuse, War, Blood, Child death, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Confinement, Death, and Torture

audreylee's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

A difficult look at anthropologists attempting to identify the remains of victims of genocide and political violence. The history of the violence is reviewed in a sometimes graphic nature. Very interesting and very disheartening. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

thepennotthesword's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Genocide, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, War, Death, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Violence, and Antisemitism