Reviews tagging 'Murder'

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Christina Lamb, Malala Yousafzai

31 reviews

jessspeake's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

saadamansayyed's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

 A poignant exploration of her fight for women's education, culminating in her October 2012 shooting in a school bus, and the traumatic aftermath that followed. Malala's memoir is unabashedly Malala in its spirit — full of honesty and youthful optimism. This updated version includes an update preface and an interview in the appendices.

While people may have different personal opinions about Yousafzai, one thing is clear — her courage and her determination for her purpose is worthy of being inspired of. In spite of all that was done to her and said to her, Malala used her voice for the cause of peace and education.

The book takee us all the way back to 1969, when Ziauddin Yousfazai, Malala's father, school owner, educational activist and her greatest mentor, was born in Shangla. Chronicling her father's early days followed by her (then seventeen-year) life, the book takes you to the beautiful lands of Swat, once known for their magnificence and which were turned into terrible places to be by the miltiant violence in the area.

The book uses simple language to tackle difficult subjects, doing so with maddening elegance and a sense of honesty. The book needs some work on pacing, but when was real life paced perfectly? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Genocide, War, Gun violence, and Physical abuse

booksngrannies's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Violence, and Medical content

itsjadenbaby's review against another edition

challenging inspiring slow-paced

3.0

It’s a very inspiring, true story but something held me back from falling completely in love with the way it was told. Girls everywhere should be thankful for Malala and everything she’s done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Violence, Gun violence, Sexism, War, and Medical content

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Deportation and Classism

chaya_v's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.5

I’ve been wanting to read this book for years but had never come around to it. This book was a great reminder of how important education is and how we still have a long way to go before every child gets to go to school. But it’s also encouraging to see how someone can dedicate their life to fighting for this right. Her story is very inspiring and I’ve really enjoyed reading about her perspective on life in general as well. 

This would be a 5-star book but I just had a hard time at some points to get through the more information packed chapters. I understand of course that the history and politics matter but it was sometimes hard to assimilate all the information.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Hate crime, Gun violence, Sexism, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Murder

tiastravels's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, War, Religious bigotry, Grief, Gun violence, Death, Murder, Violence, and Misogyny

TW: Chapter 27 - surgery & injury (graphic)

pulita's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Gun violence, Violence, Sexual violence, and Murder

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Gun violence, Murder, War, and Violence

Minor: Vomit

kibbles15's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

All I can say it wow! This is well written memoir about Malala Yousafzai and her family. From this memoir, all I can say is what an amazing family. I highly recommend this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, Violence, Medical content, Murder, and Medical trauma

Minor: Suicide

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