Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Una educación by Tara Westover

597 reviews

elizakay's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

bootrat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Very interesting, well written, and worth reading. But make sure you check the full list of trigger warnings! There's a lot of Heavy stuff in this book. Poor Tara.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death and Panic attacks/disorders

indy_e's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

sophiaanderson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

jessalynn_grace's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

duod3cima's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

A beautifully written memoir — I read it in almost one sitting. Highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Mental illness and Racial slurs

Minor: Animal cruelty

isabelreads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

a memoir that takes beautiful advantage of the form to explore the nature of memory, abuse and family within Mormon fundamentalism. It hit the humanities educator in me with the consistency of how often arts and knowledge by way of a good teacher can shape the life of students in myriad ways while also reminding the current PhD student in me that this is possible and why I pursue knowledge within the academy. truly a staple on the genre for many years to come.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Biphobia, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

elizabethob's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

moren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

as a slow reader, i am quite surprised of how i could finished a non-fiction less than a week. it’s only mean that i was so hooked by the story. it’s slow paced until the part where she finally set her foot on a formal education, but after that it’s super fun to follow. the difference between Tara’s way of thinking before and after getting an education was really noticeable. it’s heart wrenching to know the fact that certain part of her life was just so horrible, it’s impossible to be bear but she got through it. this piece of work is totally worth the hype and the achievements. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism

elizabethtm's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Antisemitism, Car accident, and Classism