Reviews tagging 'Violence'

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

64 reviews

anneebel's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, War, Violence, Medical content, and Medical trauma

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Blood, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Stalking, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Body horror, and Animal death

ireadinbed's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative sad tense slow-paced

4.75

It is always weird rating memoirs, but i will qualify that i read this book aloud to my kid so im reviewing from that perspective. 

The way Malala illustrates her life, upbringing, and personal worldview makes it easy to understand her. 

Even my young daughter got a lot out of what she had to say and i was surprised by how much i was touched by the descriptions of fear. School shootings here in america came to mind often

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual harassment

taylynnmazz's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

saadamansayyed's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

 A poignant exploration of her fight for women's education, culminating in her October 2012 shooting in a school bus, and the traumatic aftermath that followed. Malala's memoir is unabashedly Malala in its spirit — full of honesty and youthful optimism. This updated version includes an update preface and an interview in the appendices.

While people may have different personal opinions about Yousafzai, one thing is clear — her courage and her determination for her purpose is worthy of being inspired of. In spite of all that was done to her and said to her, Malala used her voice for the cause of peace and education.

The book takee us all the way back to 1969, when Ziauddin Yousfazai, Malala's father, school owner, educational activist and her greatest mentor, was born in Shangla. Chronicling her father's early days followed by her (then seventeen-year) life, the book takes you to the beautiful lands of Swat, once known for their magnificence and which were turned into terrible places to be by the miltiant violence in the area.

The book uses simple language to tackle difficult subjects, doing so with maddening elegance and a sense of honesty. The book needs some work on pacing, but when was real life paced perfectly? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Genocide, War, Gun violence, and Physical abuse

booksngrannies's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Violence, and Medical content

itsjadenbaby's review against another edition

challenging inspiring slow-paced

3.0

It’s a very inspiring, true story but something held me back from falling completely in love with the way it was told. Girls everywhere should be thankful for Malala and everything she’s done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Violence, Gun violence, Sexism, War, and Medical content

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Deportation and Classism

aimnorth's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexism, and Violence

tiastravels's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, War, Religious bigotry, Grief, Gun violence, Death, Murder, Violence, and Misogyny

TW: Chapter 27 - surgery & injury (graphic)

pulita's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Gun violence, Violence, Sexual violence, and Murder