Reviews tagging 'Death'

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank by Anne Frank

53 reviews

erinsbooknook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

I am glad I read this. I wanted to learn about Anne and her situation. What happened to her was disgusting. Reading her diary, she seemed like an intelligent and loving person. It was hard to get through at times, as she wrote about mundane things a lot. It wasn’t completely what I expected, but I learned a lot. However, I wouldn’t read it again. RIP Anne.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Murder

jjb21's review against another edition

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

5.0

A beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking account. 

It’s much more than the traumatising history I expected. In some ways it’s a charming coming-of-age story. Hearing the very real trials and tribulations of a ‘normal’ 13-year-old - stuck in a room with a bunch of ’stupid’ adults - can, at times, be very funny and charming.

But it has a menacing countdown throughout, and the final pages were always going to have me in tears.

But it’s as inspiring as it is depressing. Faced by the worst events imaginable, Anne is so wise and forgiving. She writes beautifully about life and love and humanity and hunger and purpose and society and family and friendships. And the Dutch people who support those in the Annexe are a source of great hope for the future.

I hope we’ve learned from this period of history.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Excrement, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, and War

asimpson7's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Such a sad read, knowing her fate while reading her words about being optimistic about the future. Although it makes me very appreciative of my life even though it may be hard it’s nothing compared to having to be in hiding and fear for my life just because of my beliefs.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Grief, and War

unusuallyy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Antisemitism

Moderate: War

Minor: Death

lrl06's review against another edition

emotional funny informative lighthearted tense medium-paced

3.5

“People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things“ is one of the beautiful things she wrote with this one being just a month before she was captured, on July 6th 1944. Such intelligence and emotional maturity strikes from this young girl to write with such knowledge on both herself and the world around her. Her essence of normalcy in such hard times really advocate for her personality.

The reasons this weren’t a five star review from me is because I didn’t exactly find myself completely compelled to go onto the next page nor do I think I would have typically picked up a book about a 13 to 15-year-old’s life besides the political and historical context. For the context however, I think this is a vital read to understand just one person’s perspective of eight people in this mass genocide.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, and War

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Misogyny and Sexual content

sarah_amy's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Now I know why most people read this book at least once in their lives. Anne's self-awareness, reflection, compassion, ability to self-soothe, and still find gratefulness in her life in one of the most horrific times in history is so humbling. She held onto her own convictions and self-worth with such strength, no matter how hopeless and lonely things became. So many of these qualities I'm only just getting the hang of in my 30s. Again, truly humbling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

venetiana's review against another edition

I've read the original so many times, and the book is so, so dear to my heart. I physically couldn't bear to listen to it with this narration.

It sounds so much like badly acted contemporary German theatre, it almost felt disrespectful to Anne's thoughtful, vulnerable, honest, sensitive writing.

I sincerely hope you read it before you venture into the German audio book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Antisemitism, and War

Minor: Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Deportation

ingrid13's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Death and War

denijaaa_s's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Antisemitism

Moderate: Death, Genocide, and War

paperkindle's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Violence, and War