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tandemshelves's review
5.0
I read this book a while back in seventh grade and to be honest, I absolutely loved it! The tears were worth it and I really admired Sadako's character all throughout.
mrsfishreads's review
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Depressing, super short story with a hopeless ending.
saturnia's review against another edition
5.0
i loved this book. it brought a lot of awareness about the situation with radiation in Hiroshima (after the war) through the eyes of a 12-year-old girl with leukemia. i cried a lot.
pineconek's review against another edition
4.0
Don't mind me, I'm just having a little cry.
I wish I'd read this before going to Hiroshima but my heart may not have handled it (not that it handled things well anyway).
Recommended if you want a children's book to make you sad.
More thoughts here: https://youtu.be/vMa3vzClYkA
I wish I'd read this before going to Hiroshima but my heart may not have handled it (not that it handled things well anyway).
Recommended if you want a children's book to make you sad.
More thoughts here: https://youtu.be/vMa3vzClYkA
ivyinthepages's review
3.0
Rating: 3.75 leaves out of 5
Characters: 5/5
Cover: 5/5
Story: 2.5/5
Writing: 2.5/5
Genre: Classic/Children
Type: Audiobook
Worth?: YES
Hated|Disliked|It Was Okay|Liked|Loved
Is this going to be a pattern of kids' books making me tear up? Ugh, either way this story hits hard. I find it a little troubling that she wasn't 100 percent truthful in her writing. I think when you are talking about something like this you should but I think both endings are very tragic. In the original In her version the meaning of her ending still hits as hard,
Characters: 5/5
Cover: 5/5
Story: 2.5/5
Writing: 2.5/5
Genre: Classic/Children
Type: Audiobook
Worth?: YES
Hated|Disliked|It Was Okay|Liked|Loved
Is this going to be a pattern of kids' books making me tear up? Ugh, either way this story hits hard. I find it a little troubling that she wasn't 100 percent truthful in her writing. I think when you are talking about something like this you should but I think both endings are very tragic. In the original
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she does fold over 1,000 and still died which... hits hard because she did all she could and still loss the battle.Spoiler
that life will swift you away even if you aren't actually finished living.esw_reads's review
3.0
I can't say I loved the book, but I did love the message. Something I would have changed would be to make it longer. Elapsing the time I was actually read it, it took me maybe twenty minutes, and I was distracted by my music most of the time. I would be interested to read the book her classmates wrote with her letters, I think that would be interesting to see exactly what she read, not what seems like the rushed version to put it all on paper. The only other thing I would change is the pictures. If you're going to put in illustrations, at least make them ones that can be easily deciphered for what they are. The illustrations were on just about every other page, and I could only tell what a third of them were supposed to be.
meowreads_94's review
5.0
I watched BAREFOOT GEN last week and what an wonderful anime movie it was! It compelled me to read something about the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Bombing and thanks god we are blessed with mighty internet which lead me to this heart breaking beautiful book. It's a true story about a girl named Sadako who was 2 years old when the atomic bombing happened in Japan.She and her family survived the bombing but 10 years after she was victimized of Leukemia and her BFF told her to make 1000 paper cranes which is believed to end one's sufferings if one was sick. Sadako found hope and started making paper cranes with her finger which was losing energy to fold paper day by day. Did sadako able to finish making 1000 paper cranes? did she survive? Did she succeed to transfer her hope to others? these questions will only be answered after someone finished reading this tiny sized book.
It's a book which can be finished reading only by one sitting and yet has the power to mesmerize the readers. The story is emotional but I do not find the writing filled with too much sentiments and that works good for me. I don't like it when the writer spoiled a beautiful story with overwhelming emotions which are not required. everything is not necessary to be written to make readers understand the situation or to make them feel what's going on with millions words. simple sentences and simple words also can do the same work eve with more efficiently. Sometimes you just can't blame the shit out of any party who suppose to be really responsible for a war and people like sadako became the victim of the war and even they survive it , they had to pay for the consequences for rest of their lives. It's not a story of only a girl who saw world war and later suffer the consequences, It is a story of every person who get victimized of every war happened in the world and still holding the hope to get back to their normal life and live it fully. A must READ for EVERYBODY!
It's a book which can be finished reading only by one sitting and yet has the power to mesmerize the readers. The story is emotional but I do not find the writing filled with too much sentiments and that works good for me. I don't like it when the writer spoiled a beautiful story with overwhelming emotions which are not required. everything is not necessary to be written to make readers understand the situation or to make them feel what's going on with millions words. simple sentences and simple words also can do the same work eve with more efficiently. Sometimes you just can't blame the shit out of any party who suppose to be really responsible for a war and people like sadako became the victim of the war and even they survive it , they had to pay for the consequences for rest of their lives. It's not a story of only a girl who saw world war and later suffer the consequences, It is a story of every person who get victimized of every war happened in the world and still holding the hope to get back to their normal life and live it fully. A must READ for EVERYBODY!
jessicaann1123's review
Three stars for Sadako, her beautiful story, and the spirit of those lost in the atrocity that was dropping those bombs on civilians. I only gave it less stars as the author changed details of the true story that seemed unnecessary to change. I wish her story had been told more truthfully as she folded well over 1000 cranes.