Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen

11 reviews

dev921's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Grief, Child death, Gun violence, Death, Cursing, and Death of parent

lisettemarie's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, and Child death

athnyx230's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Graphic: Gun violence and Grief

Moderate: Death

rosemaryandrue's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

After surviving a school shooting at their high school, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas turned their grief and anger into extraordinary activism against gun violence.

Though I followed this story on and off when it was originally reported in the news, it's quite another thing to see it put all together in the arc of the initial eighteen months. This book really made it hit home to me how incredible and unlikely it was that Never Again MSD would gain the momentum that it did - but in another way how inevitable too.

Cullen in the author of [book:Columbine|5632446] as well, and before reading Parkland I had thought this book would be structured similarly. But we do not spend scarcely any time at the moment of the tragedy; while [book:Columbine|5632446] explains to us how it was that the tragedy happened, Parkland focuses instead on what was built in the aftermath.

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Graphic: Gun violence and Grief

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Child death, and Murder

caterpillar's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

this book does an amazing job covering the efforts by the parkland school shooting survivors to fight for gun control and the right to be safe in our schools. i love dave cullen’s writing, and i loved the focus on the victims and survivors, not the shooter. 

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Graphic: Gun violence

micaelaostheimer's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Graphic: Gun violence

bookaholics_anonymous's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

3.0

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Graphic: Gun violence and Mass/school shootings

hazelgirl21's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

4.75

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Graphic: Death, Child death, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, and Violence

bowdiesgirl's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

4.0

Tough read. Very thought provoking and devastating what these children have experienced. Good representation of the students/victims and the importance of their opinions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Child death, Death, and Hate crime