Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Una Educación by Tara Westover

47 reviews

hcop's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, and Antisemitism

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

alisonannk's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Cancer and Dementia

annamay1021's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

aweekinthelife's review against another edition

reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

the author tells an engaging story and does a good job of explaining what her world felt like to the reader. i knew a lot of people talked about this book and whatnot, but i didn't expect this book to be so stressful and violent. 

impressive what the author lived through to get to where she is. and maybe a useful datapoint for what can happen in extreme situations, but not quite the book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Miscarriage

alexutzu's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

This book was a rollercoaster of progressively developing events and emotions. The story is very powerful, while getting into it I did not expect it to unfold like this, some parts were really shocking. It's not only about religion, but also about all sorts of negative things that stem from a controlling family. The author, after a long struggle, manages to achieve amazing things (educational, behavioural, mental health-related) by breaking away from a toxic environment and fighting to stay away from it.

I have listened to an audio version of this book, which might have given me a different perspective than reading it. I liked the pacing of this version, as it seems faster and more compelling in terms of storytelling. The beginning was a bit slow, but the book caught a lot of speed in the second half.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Bullying, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

taracoleman's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Genocide, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Sexism, Slavery, Antisemitism, and Grief

heatherchrisman's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

elspethmigliore's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

this was such a powerful read. tara’s writing is so beautiful and reflective. 

i can’t imagine myself rereading, but maybe ☑️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

passionatereader78's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

3.0

I can't say I enjoyed reading this book, however, it is an emotional read. Tara recalls her childhood on the mountains with her family. She is not allowed to go to school. She doesn't have a birth certificate or social security card. She does not exist according to the government. She learns to maneuver her families verbal and physical abuse.  She overcomes all of this and gets her higher education which exposes her to main stream life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Cursing, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

madisonrose1519's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.5

I didn’t know what I was really getting into when I picked up this book. I thought it took place in the Middle East for some reason. I just grabbed it from my mom’s shelf. I don’t know if I would have started it had I known about the deeply conservative U.S. family from which Westover broke free, but I’m SO glad I did. 

Westover’s accounts of what she endured in her childhood were shocking. I’ve been trying to read books I find more challenging, and having been on a memoir kick lately, and this was perfect for that. This is the second memoir I’ve read that exposed some of the darkest sides of Mormonism, and I’m blown away by how little I knew about it before. 

Westover’s writing is formal yet still easy to read and enjoy. It’s somber yet thrilling. I love how she ended so many of her chapters with such poignant, concise remarks, particularly after the most emotionally difficult to read portions. It made it easy to feel like I could set the book aside and say to myself, “And that’s enough of that for now,” so, without a cliffhanger, I could reflect and collect my thoughts on what she had written without getting too overwhelmed by all the trauma she experienced as a child. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis