Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Una educación by Tara Westover

494 reviews

ksilvio's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

queenofsages's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Death of parent

puzzlepinger's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Physical abuse

aninoag's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

this was an informative perspective on a life of a particular family with religious/ prepper tendencies. while this was a gripping read, the family was tortuously illogical. There were moments when I wish the author gave more insight into her emotions and reactions, rather than just stating what snide remark her father made. (This is a memoir after all.)

overall, I'm not sure how it made me feel except a little emotionally worn out. oh and the vivid depictions of bodily harm was not expected; maybe I missed a content warning on the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Antisemitism

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

mal_03's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

The first memior I actually got to the end of. I'm much more of a fast paced book reader but something about Tara's story makes you want to keep going.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, and Pregnancy

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

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

slicheni's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

3.75

Quite an incredible journey of Tara Westover's road to gaining an education, and escaping the seemingly impossible trap of the only life she had ever known on the mountain. 

This story was so gripping, and so insane at times I couldn't quite believe this was a memoir. 

What a brave story to tell, and braver that she had to live through it first.

On a final note I have to say that there are more than a few moments in the story that feel unbelievable or where the truth feels a bit stretched. I also believe that this memoir is an experience of Tara's version of events which is clearly affected by trauma and possibly selective memories by no fault of her own, and so I therefore believe this series of events to be true in Tara's memory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal death

megold12's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death