Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

8 reviews

vrybs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, and Violence

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.25

I love the March books and I absolutely believe that they should be required reading. There are aspects of the civil rights movement featured in these books that I was simply never taught in school. Particularly when it comes to the violence and vitriol leveled against Black people. I think it’s also a more thorough depiction of the nonviolence philosophy. Nonviolent, yes, legal, no. I think when some people talk about non-violence now, they imagine something different than what it is. They can’t translate it into modern day nonviolent protests. This book might help remedy that disconnect. My only gripe with the book is that it occasionally felt disjointed, like I wasn’t getting all the information. Sometimes I could fill in the blanks, but not always. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Torture, Confinement, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Outing, Blood, and Homophobia

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Again, I read all three back to back to back, so it's hard to review them individually. But this one is probably the one that stood out the least to me of the three. Still powerful and impactful, still important to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Violence, Grief, Racism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Police brutality, Death, and Cursing

readingbrb's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Violence, and Racism

Moderate: Gun violence, Confinement, and Racial slurs

Minor: Outing and Miscarriage

puggreader's review against another edition

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

5.0

extremely informative. definitely had to take breaks while reading but the story is gripping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, and Racial slurs

finnft4's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Gun violence

sweetmusic22's review

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

4.0

This volume was a bit longer than I expected. I was expecting to fly through this in 2 days at most. However, I did like that they showed John Lewis's whole speech from the March On Washington at the end of the volume 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Gun violence

ehmannky's review

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

This series is beautifully written and illustrated. The amount of history and the amount of information you learn about the Civil Rights movements and all of its factions is tremendous and yet never overwhelming. It's emotional and heartbreaking and inspiring and hopeful and will also make you disappointed we haven't progressed near as much as we should have. 

And the art just matches the tone so beautifully. It's in touch with reality without striking out for absolute realism. The stark black and white of the art just hits the reflective tone this book seems to be striking for. I just love it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, and Violence