Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

5 reviews

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

This was a pretty good one! Definitely heavy on the politics and issues in the second half which was a bit too much for me first thing in the morning while driving 😅 but I thought it was a good mix of heart, history, and reflection on the issues. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Racism, Homophobia, Death, Torture, Murder, Deportation, Misogyny, Police brutality, Trafficking, Medical content, and Domestic abuse

prachidayal's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

• Long read (10+ hours)
• The book began to lose me because, with success, she blended in with other politicians.
• I liked the organization of the book and how empirics and stories were intertwined.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Death of parent

teaofleaves's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

It was quite an insightful book into how Kamala Harris was shaped into the woman she is today and how she thinks. It's as though we actually know her from how her personality is on the pages. It is an alright book, an interesting memoir, that I can relax to and wind down with, but it doesn't stand out to me too much though (a personal thought mind you. This memoir might stand out more to you than it did for me). There some things I quite enjoyed reading of like her early days as a lawyer and some cases she worked on along with her role in the US' political world and her role as a Senator, and as a politician herself. Ending is especially powerful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

Moderate: Antisemitism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Terminal illness, and War

brookey8888's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

This was really good. To be honest I really didn’t know much about her except from what I found out during the election. She is an incredibly strong,smart and intelligent person. I really learned a lot like how Russia(which I knew but this had more info) interfered with the 2016 election. I thought her time as a lawyer was very interesting. This did make me cry and a lot of it made me mad because of this world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

louise010's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Cancer