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A review by bluelemons
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
3.5
This book dives deeply into a mother's love for a child that suffered and gone astray. There's some dissonance where she repeats that she had no part in raising her son to be who he is while also admitting her failings in not noticing signs her son had about his depression or doing things wrong. Also blames Eric excessively. Her son is obviously a perfect angel murderer.
Most concerningly, barely goes over anything about the whole gun issue in favour of talking about mental health. There's a lot of factors that go into what happened, but this lady blamed video games more than she did access to guns. She briefly goes over her son getting guns from his prom date like it's a normal thing??
We also spend a lot of time listening to her life like how she likes art and trees. I get it, it's her book. But it's boring and I don't actually care to read her journal.
Most concerningly, barely goes over anything about the whole gun issue in favour of talking about mental health. There's a lot of factors that go into what happened, but this lady blamed video games more than she did access to guns. She briefly goes over her son getting guns from his prom date like it's a normal thing??
We also spend a lot of time listening to her life like how she likes art and trees. I get it, it's her book. But it's boring and I don't actually care to read her journal.
Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, and Murder