Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Ich bin Malala by Christina Lamb, Malala Yousafzai, Elisabeth Liebl, Sabine Längsfeld, Margarete Längsfeld

22 reviews

andrikkk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, and Medical trauma

mariareviews's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Malala tiene un alma muy linda y es en definitiva alguien a quien admirar. Con tan solo diez años ya aspiraba a cambiar el mundo que la rodeaba… espero esté viviendo una vida pacífica rodeada de quienes la aman.
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Malala is a beautiful soul and truly someone to admire. Barely 10 years old and aspiring to change the world around her… hope she lives a peaceful life surrounded those who love her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Stalking, Violence, War, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

jfield351's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

2.75

This book took me a few months to finish just because it was so sad and therefore hard for me to read. It’s obviously nonfiction so everything in this book was the truth. It was also very slow paced. But the story was very inspiring, and it was so interesting to see how different the culture is in Pakistan to the culture where I have grown up. So in summary, story was enlightening, writing was good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Racism, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, War, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Child abuse, and Blood

stupidforcupid's review against another edition

Memoirs are really not my thing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Blood

bexi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Misogyny, War, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Classism, Child death, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Animal death, Grief, and Sexism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Rape, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Torture, and Domestic abuse

balfies's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

4.5

I mean, what can you say. What an incredible woman. And a really beautifully, artfully written book. The politics leading up to her attempted assassination are laid out clearly, and are infused with her warmth and passion and humour.

Key takeaway quote "Sometimes I think it is easier to be a Twilight vampire than a girl in Swat" really dates her experiences as a teen girl in the early 2010s.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Islamophobia, Gun violence, Gore, Death, Child death, and Blood

mandi4886's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Vomit

jojo_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry and Hate crime

Moderate: Death, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, and Child death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Blood, Misogyny, and Murder

annapox's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

5 stars for content; 2.5 stars for writing style. If you're interested in girls' rights and education, you should read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Gun violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Police brutality, Sexism, Violence, and War

Minor: Antisemitism, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Toxic friendship, Rape, and Child death

lish_e's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

1/3 of the book isn’t really about Malala. It is more about the history of Pakistan and about her father. 
I understand that it was included for context and while it was interesting it was lengthy at times. Also the writing style is sometimes repetitive and hard to follow.
But it got really captivating as soon as the story started to really be about Malala. 

• The tension that arose in society
• how school was like for her
• how she and her family had to flee the Swat Valley temporarily
• how it was to return to their home
• how she was shot
• how her recovery went in Birmingham

I couldn’t put the book down at this point. It might be slow at first but please don’t let that stop you from reading it. Really informative and inspiring!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Violence, Gun violence, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Medical trauma