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triciadea's review
4.0
I just don't even know what to say about this book. It offered a unique insight to the thoughts and fears of those living during WWII.
sashaj12's review against another edition
5.0
Wow, this was a heavy book. As other people have said, it's hard to give this 'book' a rating as it's not just a book, it's someone's diary. A collection of someone's innermost thoughts and feelings through a particularly crucial time in their life. So it feels strange to assign it a star rating, but I have done so anyway.
Anne was certainly a very clever girl and this diary really showed her critical thinking skills and just the way she thought about the world and those around her. After finishing this, I feel a bit strange, like my heart feels really heavy knowing that this girl never got to see the impact her writing has had on the world and that her hopes and dreams for a better life and world never came true. It also feels weird because in some parts it didn't feel like I was reading a diary from 80 years ago, it felt like a book. My mind kept going back and forth from trying to realise that this is real life, this is true history and I'm reading it right now. I feel it's a true privilege that we get to read this diary to know just how much Jewish lives were impacted by the Nazi regime and to gain insight into how a young girl interpreted the world around her. I think this diary has truly changed how I see the world and made me understand the absolute privilege I have to live in the time and place that I do. Annes was just a beautiful, creative life that was cut too short.
Overall, I think everyone should read this in their lives to truly change the way they think and feel about the world in the past, present and future.
Anne was certainly a very clever girl and this diary really showed her critical thinking skills and just the way she thought about the world and those around her. After finishing this, I feel a bit strange, like my heart feels really heavy knowing that this girl never got to see the impact her writing has had on the world and that her hopes and dreams for a better life and world never came true. It also feels weird because in some parts it didn't feel like I was reading a diary from 80 years ago, it felt like a book. My mind kept going back and forth from trying to realise that this is real life, this is true history and I'm reading it right now. I feel it's a true privilege that we get to read this diary to know just how much Jewish lives were impacted by the Nazi regime and to gain insight into how a young girl interpreted the world around her. I think this diary has truly changed how I see the world and made me understand the absolute privilege I have to live in the time and place that I do. Annes was just a beautiful, creative life that was cut too short.
Overall, I think everyone should read this in their lives to truly change the way they think and feel about the world in the past, present and future.
neurodivergentreader's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
thirdtimesacharm's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism, Mental illness, Confinement, and War
Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, Child death, Death of parent, and Death
ewwa333's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
slow-paced
lysserday's review against another edition
5.0
anne franks diary is a staple for everyone to read. her brain was so incredibly fascinating and smart for her age, its haunting reading her words, often pessimistic towards her future, knowing the outcome. not only a portrayal of a young girl becoming herself, but of the horrible and scary times of being isolated and condemned from the world. harrowing but important, a piece of history so luckily given to us. never we forget her name.