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Liebe ist nicht genug: Ich bin die Mutter eines Amokläufers by Sue Klebold
14 reviews
kaylinvm94's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mass/school shootings and Grief
katreads2022's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.5
I don’t rate memoirs on content, as I believe it is not my place to insensitively assign numerical values to people’s lived experiences. This review is purely based on structure and readability for a general audience.
This memoir is a devastating exploration of the human psyche and parenting. Klebold is respectful while attempting to carefully navigate the heavy subject of this novel. She advocates for different approaches to mental health services and parenting. Not always convincing in her approach, I in particular disagreed with some of her affirmations about parenting: no, it is not good to search through your teenager’s personal and private journals; no, it is not fair to characterize video games as being a significant contributor to violent behaviour. She makes some assertions bare on evidence interspersed with other cases she is clearly better versed in. I think one can learn a lot from this book- at least to help understand differing perspectives. That being said, the memoir is quite long and Klebold repeats her points at time. This is fine to reinforce an important takeaway, but occurs so many times it becomes repetitive.
A tragic, reflective memoir.
This memoir is a devastating exploration of the human psyche and parenting. Klebold is respectful while attempting to carefully navigate the heavy subject of this novel. She advocates for different approaches to mental health services and parenting. Not always convincing in her approach, I in particular disagreed with some of her affirmations about parenting: no, it is not good to search through your teenager’s personal and private journals; no, it is not fair to characterize video games as being a significant contributor to violent behaviour. She makes some assertions bare on evidence interspersed with other cases she is clearly better versed in. I think one can learn a lot from this book- at least to help understand differing perspectives. That being said, the memoir is quite long and Klebold repeats her points at time. This is fine to reinforce an important takeaway, but occurs so many times it becomes repetitive.
A tragic, reflective memoir.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence
Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Child death, and Grief
thatsssorachael's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
This book was harsh, and bleak, and heartbreaking, but also held so much love in its pages.
Sue Klebold lets us completely into the before, during and after of Columbine in her life. She allows us to know how she raised Dylan, what he was like in the years and weeks and days leading up to the tragedy, and how complex the grieving process was for her and her family. By the end of this book, I felt like I personally knew Sue.
This hurt to read, and I felt I needed to take a lot of breaks in between to watch tik toks of puppies and cuddle my cat. It's crucial to take care of yourself, because the amount of pain in this book is insurmountable. The other thing is this book sticks with you, I found myself thinking about Dylan and Sue and the tragedy all the time. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to the reader.
I found Sue's book to be brutally honest, no holds barred (unless she legally couldn't disclose info, and that only really happened a few times near the end), and beautifully written.
Highly recommend if you're even a little bit interested in it.
Sue Klebold lets us completely into the before, during and after of Columbine in her life. She allows us to know how she raised Dylan, what he was like in the years and weeks and days leading up to the tragedy, and how complex the grieving process was for her and her family. By the end of this book, I felt like I personally knew Sue.
This hurt to read, and I felt I needed to take a lot of breaks in between to watch tik toks of puppies and cuddle my cat. It's crucial to take care of yourself, because the amount of pain in this book is insurmountable. The other thing is this book sticks with you, I found myself thinking about Dylan and Sue and the tragedy all the time. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to the reader.
I found Sue's book to be brutally honest, no holds barred (unless she legally couldn't disclose info, and that only really happened a few times near the end), and beautifully written.
Highly recommend if you're even a little bit interested in it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Child death
Moderate: Animal death
bookswithmybulldog's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Child death, and Grief
Moderate: Antisemitism, Bullying, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, and Hate crime
Minor: Cancer
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