Reviews tagging 'Grief'

March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

7 reviews

laurareads87's review

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

A worthy conclusion to an excellent trilogy.  This third volume focuses on Selma and the struggle for voting rights, and delves into the complexities of the relationships between different individuals and groups within the civil rights movement.  This is far from my first book on this topic, but I still learned a lot.  5 stars for all three installments - highly recommend.

<i>Content warnings:</i> racism, racial slurs, sexism, violence, assault, murder, police brutality, hate crimes, gun violence, murder of children, grief

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Hate crime, Child death, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Gun violence, Death, Grief, and Murder

leweylibrary's review

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

5.0

Again, hard to review individually when I read all three together, but this one is probably my favorite. I can definitely see how it won a National Book Award. Of course this was the culmination of all three books and the march from Selma to Washington, but there were just some parts that hit extra hard emotionally and mentally that I loved.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Death, Police brutality, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, and Cursing

puggreader's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Racial slurs, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Cursing, Death of parent, Hate crime, Gore, Blood, Death, Grief, and Gun violence

thesaltiestlibrarian's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Stalking, Torture, Grief, Hate crime, Blood, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Murder

anniefwrites's review

dark informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Another informative, moving graphic memoir of John Lewis’s life. I especially appreciated how he and the other authors lifted up the stories of women in the movement in all three books because they are so often ignored. The imagery is not for the faint of heart, but it is really the next best thing for a generation who didn’t grow up watching the movement on television or participating in it directly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Racism, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Cursing

brookey8888's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Such and important read. I think people forget just how recent this was. I learned a lot like I didn’t fully know what Bloody Sunday was. Just all these people were/are so strong and amazing. This book made me so mad and sad, but also hopeful for the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

ehmannky's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is by far the best of this trilogy of graphic memoirs, and this is high praise given that I think that the other two are some of the best that the genre has produced. There is so much death and violence and pain in this one, so much suffering, and yet Lewis, his co-author, and illustrator do not frame it as a story of despair, but as a story of hope and triumph over the forces of white supremacy and white liberal complacency that would create such a monstrous system that was and is systemic white supremacy in America. It's an incredibly moving work, and I had to stop multiple times to just let the words and the art sink in. It's so much to take in, and I cannot recommend it enough. 

I read the first of this series before much of the social unrest of 2020 occurred, and it struck me now as I finish it just how unfair it is that Lewis never got to rest. That he spent his final years battling the same white supremacists and their ilk that physically beat him as a young man. And how unfair it is that we're creating a world where Black people and their allies continually have to stand up to this. It makes me want to go out and push for a better world, even as it becomes clear that it won't happen within my lifetime. Which is what I hope John Lewis would have wanted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical content, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Death, Car accident, and Blood

Minor: Sexism