Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede

12 reviews

dev921's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, War, Grief, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, and Death

momloves2read's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Confinement

katiebowers's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book, about how small town Canada opened their doors to the world when American skies closed down on 9/11, is a mosiac of the great and beautiful, tragic and horrendous, parts of being human. It follows the stories of dozens of passengers marooned in Gander, Newfoundland and the volunteers who dropped everything to help them. It jumps rather rapidly from story to story, which makes it a bit hard to follow, but mostly it’s a great reflection on a part of 9/11 most of us never knew about, and of all the ways humans help each other.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, War, and Violence

marioosa517's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, and Death of parent

sglance9's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Antisemitism

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Alcohol, and Death

kibbles15's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

This was an inspirational and moving tale set in a time of great tragedy.  I highly recommend this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death, Violence, and War

Minor: Antisemitism, Vomit, and Alcohol

dumaurier's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring sad

3.75

read after seeing come from away.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia

thedevouringbookshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Islamophobia

Minor: Death, Violence, and Antisemitism

aus10england's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.0

This was a pleasantly surprising and heartwarming read!

It was nice to see what good came out of such a traumatic event, and I'm glad that the book kept its focus on the people in Gander, it really helped to connect to those people.

Something I took away from the book was how COMPLICATED everything was with border control and any process related to that, since there was no precedent for such a huge homeland security breach. 

Anyway, very good read, would recommend for an uplifting read that promotes the power of thy neighbor!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and War

Moderate: Death and Religious bigotry