Reviews tagging 'Racism'

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

9 reviews

audreyolejasz's review against another edition

3.25

The ending felt like a cop out 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual content, Racism, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Suicide, and War

aus10england's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A beautiful story. Very impressive writing. I got kind of lost towards the end though, maybe could have cut down about fifty pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Racism, and Rape

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, and Physical abuse

fractalonyx's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Bullying, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

jessica234's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Ozeki has a way of crafting stories as if they are perfectly true, and in a way they always are. In this case, there are two intertwining stories. That of a 16 year old girl writing in her diary, and that of Ruth herself, in a sort of meta-psuedo-biographical sort of way. A layered, companionable, devastating coming of age story and a spiritual journey and a science lesson and a historical account, all rolled in to one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, War, and Racism

kaneebli's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Grief, Bullying, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Racism, Toxic friendship, and Death

Minor: Rape, Cultural appropriation, and War

jameslyons's review

adventurous funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Sexual violence, Bullying, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Death of parent, and Gore

waybeyondblue's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Body shaming, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Racism, Animal death, Violence, War, Grief, and Child death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

themysteriouserk's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A beautifully written book with an intriguing and endearing (if also flawed/complicated) cast of characters. It flawlessly balances a huge variety of perspectives and ideas, its plot covering both the quiet, thoughtful moments of ordinary lives and the dramatic, world-shaping events of the past and present.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Bullying, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, War, Xenophobia, and Racism

shoohoob's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Very glad I gave this book another chance and listened to the audiobook. First half was still so slow but picked up halfway through. Some parts didn’t really click with me, but overall I did enjoy it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Death, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Self harm, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Animal cruelty