Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Una Educación by Tara Westover

387 reviews

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

mia_aim987's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

A heart wrenching memoir that I couldn’t put down. It was really well written, inspiring and eye opening. A book that will mean so much to others experiencing similar home situations 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Mental illness

misskimmers's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death and Car accident

bail33's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Car accident, Violence, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Gun violence

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

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

erisouls's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I don’t have the words to explain how profound an experience reading this book was. All I can do is highly recommend it to everyone I know who reads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Misogyny, Blood, Car accident, Abandonment, Animal death, and Body horror

danimcthomas's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Car accident, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

Religious extremism, poverty

breeski's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Wow this is incredible! I always think I don't like memiors until I read ones like this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Mental illness