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brooketreads's review
challenging
sad
medium-paced
I read this for one of my college classes. But, honestly, it felt wrong considering what Israel is currently doing to Palestinians. The correlations are staggering.
With such an old book, I’m not sure if I have anything else of value to say that someone else hasn’t already said.
With such an old book, I’m not sure if I have anything else of value to say that someone else hasn’t already said.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Talks about breasts and a full out (rather thorough) description of the female genitalia.lrl06's review against another edition
emotional
funny
informative
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
3.5
“People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things“ is one of the beautiful things she wrote with this one being just a month before she was captured, on July 6th 1944. Such intelligence and emotional maturity strikes from this young girl to write with such knowledge on both herself and the world around her. Her essence of normalcy in such hard times really advocate for her personality.
The reasons this weren’t a five star review from me is because I didn’t exactly find myself completely compelled to go onto the next page nor do I think I would have typically picked up a book about a 13 to 15-year-old’s life besides the political and historical context. For the context however, I think this is a vital read to understand just one person’s perspective of eight people in this mass genocide.
The reasons this weren’t a five star review from me is because I didn’t exactly find myself completely compelled to go onto the next page nor do I think I would have typically picked up a book about a 13 to 15-year-old’s life besides the political and historical context. For the context however, I think this is a vital read to understand just one person’s perspective of eight people in this mass genocide.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism, War, Death, and Genocide
Moderate: Gun violence
Minor: Misogyny and Sexual content
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, War, Antisemitism, and Confinement
Minor: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Murder, Mental illness, Abandonment, Misogyny, Deportation, Death, and Grief
greenan26's review
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, War, and Antisemitism
madisone's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
slow-paced
4.5
This was a highly educational and emotional book about the lives of 8 Jewish people in hiding during WW2. Though there were some parts that dragged on a bit, I cannot at all criticize them seeing as this is the diary of a teenage girl with no socialization outside of the 7 people she lived with. I understand what others say about Anne complaining a lot, but once again she was in a small place with 7 other people for two years, so she’s bound to complain. Overall this was sad and interesting.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, War, and Antisemitism
Moderate: Blood and Vomit
Minor: Sexual content
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.
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
lucyselim's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
5.0
I have read this book a few times, but not since I was a teenager and I forgot how raw and emotional and graphic and detailed this is. As I was reading this book I started to feel like I was 14 all over again, like we understood each other. And then there would be another mention of the outside world and I would remember the reality of her situation.
I finished this at work so I had a hard time holding back my tears as I read the afterword. I try not to think about all the work Anne could have done with the years of her life that were stolen. Instead, it seems imperative to thank Anne's father Otto for having followed his daughters wishes and allowed the publication of her work.
"I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!"
I finished this at work so I had a hard time holding back my tears as I read the afterword. I try not to think about all the work Anne could have done with the years of her life that were stolen. Instead, it seems imperative to thank Anne's father Otto for having followed his daughters wishes and allowed the publication of her work.
"I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!"
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Antisemitism, Death, Genocide, War, Confinement, and Sexual content
Minor: Medical content, Vomit, Violence, Xenophobia, and Toxic relationship
okarenhelena's review against another edition
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism, Hate crime, War, Religious bigotry, and Confinement
Moderate: Sexual content, Genocide, Xenophobia, Abandonment, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Excrement, Medical content, Police brutality, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Vomit
daviddias's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.75
Um memoir sobre a vida de duas famílias em um anexo secreto. Anne Frank deseja se tornar um jornalista/escritora quando cresce, é por este motivo que começa a escrever em seu diário, recebido no seu aniversário. Ela começa a escrever antes de ir para o esconderijo, no qual fica por volta de 2 anos.
O memoir começa bem interessante nas primeiras páginas, acompanhar a vida dela antes deles irem ao anexo, é de fato prazeroso. Entretanto quando o livro vai chegando na metade possui momentos bem monótonos, e por vezes, entediantes. Houve vezes que quase abandonei a leitura, pois, só eram descritos os dias deles nesse local e nada de mais, a Anne no início do diário é bem imatura e por vezes chata, entretanto, quando chega a parte final do livro, sua mentalidade é tão diferente, e mais madura que nem parece a mesma garota (ela até chega a citar isto um momento).
Há entradas no diário dela que são incríveis, é impressionante como uma menina de 14-15 anos conseguiu ter um pensamento tão refinado para os padrões de sua idade, enquanto estava lendo, houve momentos que fiquei constrangido, na idade dela não possui nem dez por cento desta maturidade. Há outro ponto bem importante de ressaltar, ela era bem mais madura para a idade dela, porém a que custo? Ela não ganhou essa maturidade de graça. Fica aí a reflexão. Porém vale lembrar, não gostei do início, porém, poderia ser só eu que não estava no momento de lê-lo, você pode gostar do livro inteiramente, não há problema. Vale lembrar que leitura nunca é unanimidade.
Há entradas no diário dela que são incríveis, é impressionante como uma menina de 14-15 anos conseguiu ter um pensamento tão refinado para os padrões de sua idade, enquanto estava lendo, houve momentos que fiquei constrangido, na idade dela não possui nem dez por cento desta maturidade. Há outro ponto bem importante de ressaltar, ela era bem mais madura para a idade dela, porém a que custo? Ela não ganhou essa maturidade de graça. Fica aí a reflexão. Porém vale lembrar, não gostei do início, porém, poderia ser só eu que não estava no momento de lê-lo, você pode gostar do livro inteiramente, não há problema. Vale lembrar que leitura nunca é unanimidade.
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts
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