Reviews with content warning for Murder - Diari d'Anna Frank

I am glad I read this. I wanted to learn about Anne and her situation. What happened to her was disgusting. Reading her diary, she seemed like an intelligent and loving person. It was hard to get through at times, as she wrote about mundane things a lot. It wasn’t completely what I expected, but I learned a lot. However, I wouldn’t read it again. RIP Anne.

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5.0

A beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking account.

It’s much more than the traumatising history I expected. In some ways it’s a charming coming-of-age story. Hearing the very real trials and tribulations of a ‘normal’ 13-year-old - stuck in a room with a bunch of ’stupid’ adults - can, at times, be very funny and charming.

But it has a menacing countdown throughout, and the final pages were always going to have me in tears.

But it’s as inspiring as it is depressing. Faced by the worst events imaginable, Anne is so wise and forgiving. She writes beautifully about life and love and humanity and hunger and purpose and society and family and friendships. And the Dutch people who support those in the Annexe are a source of great hope for the future.

I hope we’ve learned from this period of history.

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challenging hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Now I know why most people read this book at least once in their lives. Anne's self-awareness, reflection, compassion, ability to self-soothe, and still find gratefulness in her life in one of the most horrific times in history is so humbling. She held onto her own convictions and self-worth with such strength, no matter how hopeless and lonely things became. So many of these qualities I'm only just getting the hang of in my 30s. Again, truly humbling.

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I've read the original so many times, and the book is so, so dear to my heart. I physically couldn't bear to listen to it with this narration.

It sounds so much like badly acted contemporary German theatre, it almost felt disrespectful to Anne's thoughtful, vulnerable, honest, sensitive writing.

I sincerely hope you read it before you venture into the German audio book.

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emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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I enjoyed this book. It was hard at times. I knew how the book ended before I started it while this was the diary of a teenage who wrote about her life.

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medium-paced

5.0

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