First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | 
pickThis one is heavy on the heart. I am ashamed to admit that I was woefully unaware of the genocide in Cambodia. After reading this, I read up on the same and I wonder why we as kids are not taught about this in history.
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pickI had only seen the first half of the movie.
Airplane reading … long weekend and family time ❤️
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Aiming to read a lot of books for #readingasia2021 next month!
pickWhat a painful, illuminating, honest and heartbreaking book! Told from the perspective of a young girl, this examination of Cambodia during Pol Pot‘s murderous reign doesn‘t look away from the atrocities conducted by the Khmer Rouge. The perseverance of the author and her family are inspiring and remind the reader of the strength of the human spirit. Difficult to read but so worth it! #ReadingWomen2020 #Booked2020 #AboutGenocide #challenge
pickThis is an own voices account of the Pol Pot regime, the regime that killed two million Cambodians, a quarter of the country's population and its a hard read. It felt physically exhausting to tell you the truth.
Angelina Jolie and her adopted son Maddox (a Cambodian) have produced a netflix original film based on this book under the same name which is also well worth watching.
Im not here to rate peoples lives, an auto five star from me.
pickA heartbreaking retelling of events by the author who, as a small child, survived the Cambodian Genocide under the dictator Pol Pot and the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. I found myself stopping the book often to do my own research on the side, because admittedly I didn‘t know much about this topic before. I can‘t believe this was only about 40 years ago when roughly 2 million people were tortured and murdered in Cambodia. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Trying to finish the prompts for #Booked2020Spring. This book is a powerful memoir that takes you in the Cambodian communist regime and genocide from a child‘s point of view. Definitely not an easy read, but an important one.
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#genocide
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#read2020
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Cleaned up after our Nailed It project while listening to this book and having such gratitude that I can provide a good life for my 5 year old daughter. #gratitude #memoir #cambodia #communistregime
Phnom Penh City wakes early to take advantage of the cool morning breeze before the sun breaks through the haze and invades the country with a sweltering heat.
#FirstLineFridays
pickMy mental health has REALLY been getting in the way of my reading but I managed to finish my May #BookSpin pick! I didn‘t know much about the Khmer Rouge and I still feel like I don‘t, since the author was five during these events. I did learn a lot about the experience of genocide and being a refugee from a child, which makes my heart break even more when I think about the world. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Also my book about genocide for #booked2020
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“Wait, I‘ll get you some toilet paper.” Ma goes away and comes back with a bunch of paper sheets in her hand. My eyes widen in disbelief, “Ma! It‘s money. I can‘t use money!”
This was one of my most favorite scenes from the book. Luong felt the need to go but had nothing to use for wiping. It was supposed to be funny but I found it painful as well. Money has no power in a situation where the rich should not exist. It can be as worthless as shit.
pickA first hand account of the genocide in Cambodia during the 70s, committed by Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge regime. An excellent & informative read. We really must remember & understand these horrific moments in history.
pickUng recounts the horrors of 1970s Cambodia through the eyes of her 5-year-old self as her parents and six siblings flee their home and middle class lifestyle with the rise of the Khmer Rouge. The family live in fear of the father's connection to the old government being discovered as the whole country slowly starves to death in work camps. Ung's portrayal of her emotional reaction and resilience during this nightmare is poignant and unforgettable.
pickHarrowing.
Cambodia 1975. Louang was 5 years old when the Khmer Rouge took power. Her privileged city life changed overnight, as her family fled to the country, hid their background, endured famine, betrayal, separation. Louang eventually ends up in a camp for child soldiers, where her understandable hate & anger is stoked.
I would recommend this to understand a little of the horrors of ‘regime change‘ and the experience of the Killing Fields 👇
Started this one for #nfnov on an #audiorun yesterday.
Loung Ung starts her story as a precocious , curious, middle-class 5-year old in Phnom Penh. I‘ve realised already how shockingly little I know about Cambodia or the Killing Fields. #TIL that the Khmer Rouge overthrew the Cambodian government in 1975 - that feels so recent. Think this will be a tough read 😞
pickTrue story of 5 year old Loung and her family and how they had to survive the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Watched this on Netflix and had to read it. What a hard book to read but one that you should read. I was 10 in America when this happened and that makes me think how things like this were happening and still happen in our world today. This girl/woman is the bravest person ever.
Started my travel reading. I‘m going to Cambodia in June and thought it was time to read this memoir. Incredible survival story.
pickHorrible story of survival under Pol Pot. Really well written and a testament to family and strength.
pickA Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.
Heart-wrenching but fantastic series #Lulu ❤️
The movie on Netflix is definitely worth checking out, as well.
#LiteraryLuck #DoYouRemember
pickSo tragic and sad. You could feel Ung‘s heartbreak, confusion, and anger through her words.
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#biography #cambodia
Book mail arrived today! 📚📬 Thanks so much Jill for passing this along! I‘m excited to read it and then watch the #netflix film by #AngelinaJolie. Did you watch it after?
#FirstTheyKilledMyFather by #LoungUng is “a moving story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl, and her triumphant spirit as she survived the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot‘s brutal regime.” #TBR #nonfiction #booktoscreen #bookmail
pickGreat read about a part of history I knew nothing about. Ung says in the author‘s note “if you had been living in Cambodia during this period, this would be your story too.”
Stories of wars and war crimes- whether the Nazi Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide, or this, about a girl‘s survival in the Cambodian‘s massacres under the Khmer Rouge - are never easy to read. A great crime to the human spirit.
#aprella #cruelworld
pickThis book really showed me how little I actually know about the Vietnam War. It follows a Cambodian family and is an eye opening story. The horrors the author/narrator and her family lived through are told in a truthful and heartbreaking way.
I would like to read more on this topic if anyone has recommendations for me.
Saw the great movie adaptation and now I am reading the memoir it was based upon. As much as I liked the film, I‘m glad to get the more detailed story from the book.
so-soA good insight about Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Written from the author's POV. Can be a bit slow but overall not bad.
Heading to NYC for the day to visit my BFF who's in town from Austin. Getting lots of reading in during travel time but a tough read in public 😢
pickOne of my favorite books written by an Asian author is First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung. It is a heartbreaking account of a Cambodian family during the rise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
pickNo one should have to read this book because this shouldn't be the history of a nation of people. But it is and it is so very similar to stories from hundreds of other nations' pasts and to thousands of people currently living within violent conflicts RIGHT NOW.
And so, because of that, this is a book that everyone should read. It is difficult to take in. Overcome the fear of reading this truth and hear Loung Ung's story.
A very interesting book #setinasia is First They Killed My Father by Luong Ung. My students read this last year for a unit on genocides, and they really took it to heart. The book chronicles the experiences of the author and her family in Cambodia during the reign of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. I had the privilege of seeing the author speak at Kent State during our study of the book, and she was so inspiring. #somethingforsept
This is my "I've been in NY for one week" #augusthaul All are used or bargain books. Thanks to my mother-in-law for the gift of ? to get these. She's the best. Excited for all of these! #augustphotochallenge #augustofbooks
pickGreat book! Loung's voice is clear and tells her story really well. Again, I didn't know about Cambodia's civil war and this was pretty interesting. I loved her relationship with her Pa and her honesty in the decisions she made in order to survive. #readaroundtheworld
