Adventures With Alex

Tag: Genocide

  • BR283) “First They Killed My Father” Book Review

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    First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung. 3/5 rating. 238 pages. Book #50 of 2022. Read December 26, 2022. This is Loung’s story of living through the Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge. Loung’s young life was absolutely haunting and heartbreaking. Coming from a middle-class family living in Phnom…

  • BR228) “A Problem from Hell” Book Review

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    A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power. 4/5 rating. 516 pages. Book #64 of 2021. Read November 14, 2021. This book was all about the 20th century’s genocides and the complete lack of help from the world’s governments to end these massacres. I realize the older I get the…

  • BR208) “We wish to inform you” Book Review

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    We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch. 3/5 rating. 353 pages. Book #44 of 2021. Read May 15, 2021. This book is a journalist’s look at the Rwandan genocide of 1994 (and its aftermath) through interviews and experience of his time in…