Reviews tagging 'War'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

11 reviews

errie's review against another edition

challenging informative

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Physical abuse, Racism, Child death, Genocide, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Confinement, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Police brutality, Trafficking, and War

kefink's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

Resonant and deeply moving. Absolutely a must read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Grief, Violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and War

jessmbark's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

This book is difficult to read at times, yet is simultaneously gripping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Genocide, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and War

Minor: Animal death, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

betsythegremlin's review

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking read but very important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Violence, Hate crime, Death, Mass/school shootings, War, Torture, Child death, Police brutality, Murder, Gore, Xenophobia, and Kidnapping

pickledbeez's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Death

mslaureeslibrary's review

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Child death, Child abuse, Racism, Genocide, Sexual assault, Torture, Slavery, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, Death, Confinement, Classism, and Antisemitism

librarymouse's review

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Prior to reading this book, I had no idea that the American-backed genocide of Mayans in Guatemala, nor the Nazi-affiliated disappearings in Argentina ever happened. In this book, Alexa Hagerty does a beautiful and poignant job exploring the atrocities and her experience exhuming the mass graves left in their wake at a human level. She breaks down the walls built up in many western minds between the body and the person they were; the stories they still have left to tell, exploring how that mental block helps and hinders in archeological and anthropological study. The respect and interest Hagerty pays to working to understand things unknown to and outside the boundaries of consideration of much of western study, like that of Maya cosmovision, shows there dedication to both her work and the people she has come to care for - both living and dead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Violence, and War

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