Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

5 reviews

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

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

lbelow's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

I wish I had read this book as a teenager. As an adult, I still consider it an essential read, but this is the diary of a teenage girl, with all the moodiness, conflict, and curiosity that entails. Had I read it as a teenager, I feel like it would have resonated with me in a different way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Grief, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Genocide, Alcohol, Vomit, Terminal illness, Excrement, and Cancer

Discussion of periods, physical description of female genitalia.

flowerowl's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

I loved it! Such a unique look into someone's, but especially a young struggling girls (or women's like how she felt it) mind. things and time are so different, yet the emotions and experience are so the same. Things almost every girl growing up feel, but never says or even sometimes dares to think of, she wrote down and expressed so purely and real (not knowing others would read it). It gives room to think all the while reading on the state of self, families, groups, Country's and cultures, without being imposing or philosophical. I would recommend it to anyone, but especially to other girls/women who feel trapped or stuk what ever situation or place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Confinement, Mental illness, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Violence, Cancer, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

maess's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, and Religious bigotry