Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

5 reviews

haleybird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This book was incredibly thought provoking and informative, it’s just really dense and was personally hard for me to get through, but I’m glad I did! It’s difficult for me to keep up with so many acronyms, company names, so much data and stats, etc. 

Regardless of that, however, I do believe this is a book that anyone who uses rechargeable electronics or electric vehicles should read. The more people know about the atrocities that continue to be committed in the Congo for the sole purpose of exploiting their resources, the better. 

I will surely be much more conscious about my consumption of products that use rechargeable batteries moving forward, as I can’t in good conscience keep blindly consuming while children, women, and men in the Congo continue to die indiscriminately. We all need to do better!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, War, Blood, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, Genocide, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Colonisation, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, and Trafficking

karyssa223's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child death, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, and Gun violence

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Trafficking, Classism, Confinement, Death, Torture, Sexual violence, Slavery, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Genocide, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Miscarriage

Minor: Car accident and Animal death

lbelow's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.75

This is such a brilliant and eye-opening book. It is thorough and heart-breaking. A much-needed and revealing book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, Gun violence, Child death, and Colonisation

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, and Torture

beccarwolf's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Suicidal thoughts