Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

12 reviews

meghan1111's review

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Confinement, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Classism, Racism, Sexism, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Slavery, Death, and Hate crime

Minor: Child death

jake_windish's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This one is going to stay with me for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Racism, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

Minor: Child death, Drug use, and Death

alexisgarcia's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

such a raw and emotional book, such an important read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Grief, Gun violence, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

indeedithappens's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Death of parent, Police brutality, War, Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Violence, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Gaslighting, Rape, and Xenophobia

tmchopra's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

cady_sass's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

“The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are.”

This should be required reading. It’s a bit dense, and, despite being very short, takes some time to read and absorb. The stream of consciousness prose can be a little off putting to some, but if you take the time to move through this slowly it really adds to it. Heavy. Hard-hitting and deeply moving. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Cursing, Violence, Death, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Classism, Slavery, Police brutality, Hate crime, and Child death

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

powerful, searing, visceral, unrelenting, and unbelievably eloquent, between the world and me succeeds in the almost-impossible task of encapsulating the personal experiences of being black in america to the country's insidious system of upholding whiteness w/ the destruction of its seeming counterpart. there's at least a sentence on almost every page that stuns or makes one pause out of its sheer revelatory power or truth. reading this book is very much like being slapped out of a big pharma drug-induced lifelong stupor.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Gun violence, Death, and Violence

Minor: Child death

brookey8888's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

This was very good and a great audiobook. It was beautifully written. I do like what is talked about but I feel like I’m a little stupid and stuff like went over my head/it took me a while to understand. But I would recommend this. 

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Content Warnings

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

ariam's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

I loved the format of a letter to the author's son. This book brings  some peace and understanding to all the chaos and contradictions in the greater discussion about living black. Just read it, its so good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Hate crime

nav26's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

This book was tough. I didn't necessarily learn something new, but Coates has a beautiful way of writing that really pulled me in. It broke my heart again and again, and yet it's a story of resilience. Should be required reading in my opinion! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Racism

Minor: Rape