Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

52 reviews

erinsbooknook's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

I am glad I read this. I wanted to learn about Anne and her situation. What happened to her was disgusting. Reading her diary, she seemed like an intelligent and loving person. It was hard to get through at times, as she wrote about mundane things a lot. It wasn’t completely what I expected, but I learned a lot. However, I wouldn’t read it again. RIP Anne.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Hate crime, and Murder

jjb21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking account. 

It’s much more than the traumatising history I expected. In some ways it’s a charming coming-of-age story. Hearing the very real trials and tribulations of a ‘normal’ 13-year-old - stuck in a room with a bunch of ’stupid’ adults - can, at times, be very funny and charming.

But it has a menacing countdown throughout, and the final pages were always going to have me in tears.

But it’s as inspiring as it is depressing. Faced by the worst events imaginable, Anne is so wise and forgiving. She writes beautifully about life and love and humanity and hunger and purpose and society and family and friendships. And the Dutch people who support those in the Annexe are a source of great hope for the future.

I hope we’ve learned from this period of history.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism, Death, Excrement, Genocide, Child death, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, Eating disorder, Grief, Confinement, Violence, and War

asimpson7's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Such a sad read, knowing her fate while reading her words about being optimistic about the future. Although it makes me very appreciative of my life even though it may be hard it’s nothing compared to having to be in hiding and fear for my life just because of my beliefs.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Gun violence, Antisemitism, War, Confinement, Death, Genocide, and Emotional abuse

anenome's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Antisemitism

eminent_reader's review

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Colonisation, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Antisemitism

unusuallyy's review

emotional hopeful slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Antisemitism

Moderate: War

Minor: Death

sarah_amy's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Now I know why most people read this book at least once in their lives. Anne's self-awareness, reflection, compassion, ability to self-soothe, and still find gratefulness in her life in one of the most horrific times in history is so humbling. She held onto her own convictions and self-worth with such strength, no matter how hopeless and lonely things became. So many of these qualities I'm only just getting the hang of in my 30s. Again, truly humbling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Violence, and Confinement

venetiana's review against another edition

I've read the original so many times, and the book is so, so dear to my heart. I physically couldn't bear to listen to it with this narration.

It sounds so much like badly acted contemporary German theatre, it almost felt disrespectful to Anne's thoughtful, vulnerable, honest, sensitive writing.

I sincerely hope you read it before you venture into the German audio book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, War, Antisemitism, and Confinement

Minor: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Murder, Mental illness, Abandonment, Misogyny, Deportation, Death, and Grief

broccoli_aesthetics's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Genocide, Confinement, Antisemitism, and Child death

rushh's review

challenging tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and War

Moderate: Antisemitism, Chronic illness, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Violence, Mass/school shootings, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts