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Una Educación by Tara Westover

219 reviews

book_bunnie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, Violence, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Child abuse, Bullying, Physical abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

annakh16's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Child abuse, Bullying, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Animal death

Moderate: Body shaming and Abandonment

jenniferroach's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, and Animal death

clorbor07's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy, Car accident, Religious bigotry, Blood, and Bullying

Minor: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and Antisemitism

jjb21's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Stunning, fascinating, sad. Couldn’t believe some of the stories. A painful read at times. Beautiful writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Confinement, Cancer, Bullying, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Medical content, Antisemitism, Gore, Violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

andrea_carroll123's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring relaxing tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Bullying, and Physical abuse

tigerkind's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Both praising and criticizing this  feels wrong, as it contains  fairly detailed accounts of abuse. However, it was extremely well written and constructed, allowing for a reflection on the broader systematic workings of power relations in religion, family and education. Even though a memoir, it was at times written with so much detail and emotion that I had to remind myself I was listening to a non-fiction work and not a novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Unfortunately, it feels like the legal challenges the author apparently faced, which forced her to include disclaimers, paraphrase and use pseudonyms, somewhat hampered the overall impact of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Car accident, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Gaslighting, Body horror, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Child abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Classism, Slavery, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Genocide, Islamophobia, Murder, and Police brutality

glitterdeww's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Omg. This story... This person. It's been a long time since I've repeatedly yelled at the sky while experiencing an audiobook. 

In Educated, Westover has given an incredible, inspiring, and heartbreakingly traumatic story of her life. I know it will stay with me for the rest of mine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Violence, Medical content, Antisemitism, Chronic illness, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Panic attacks/disorders

oliviacarew's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Body shaming, Mental illness, Racism, Bullying, Violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Car accident and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Grief

aislinnh's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail