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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
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Wow. Can’t believe someone could survive that. Her story was so well conveyed, there was so much of it was unprepared for. How being a child makes survival easier, how her difficult upbringing she felt prepared her to endure abuse. I appreciated her insight and pushback on “Stockholm Syndrome” and respect so much her refusal to let other people define something she experienced. Also her insistence that good and evil are not separate opposite categories, but shades of gray and choice that exist in degrees within all of us. I feel like that supports a lot of abolitionist/transformative Justice ideas. I cannot believe that I unrelated saw the scene where she escapes on tik tok and then read the book without knowing. Respect how she doesn’t talk about sexual abuse and keeps that private for herself. She seems so smart and competent and strong, I don’t think I could have done what she did. She’s a very awe-inspiring person.
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Die Geschichte hat zutiefst mein Herz berührt. Es ist eine Erzählung von dem wohl schlimmsten Szenario, das einem Kind geschehen kann: entführt und in einem Keller gefangen gehalten zu werden. Trotz 3096 Tage Gefangenschaft hat Natascha Krampusch nie ihre Stärke verloren. Ein Buch was so vieles lehrt: Mut, Trotz, Überlebenswille und Vergebung. Ich bin wahnsinnig berührt und kann die Geschichte nur jedem ans Herz legen.
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Wat een heftig verhaal is dit, maar wat fijn dat Natascha door dit boek te schrijven een hoofdstuk van haar leven af kon sluiten. Ze is zo moedig geweest gedurende haar gevangenschap, maar ook daarna! Dit is een verhaal dat me nog lang bij zal blijven.
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Reading about Natascha's experience during abduction was awful but what saddened me most were the last 20 or so pages where she talked about what happened after her escape. The way the media and world treated her after her escape was awful. I can't imagine how it must've felt having to endure all this torture for eight years only to be met with inhumanity when you're finally free. This book was written nearly 13 years ago, four years after Natascha's escape. I hope she'd doing well and living the life she's always aspired to live. Someone like her has strength I don't think anyone who hasn't been through what she's been through can even start to comprehend.
(read for week 8 of the 'around the year in 52 books' challenge: an author's debut book.)
(read for week 8 of the 'around the year in 52 books' challenge: an author's debut book.)