Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Educated by Tara Westover

31 reviews

heatherchrisman's review

dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

passionatereader78's review

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

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

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

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

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

madelinegl's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Car accident, and Child abuse

Minor: Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Cancer, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, and Death

satsumaorange's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

Holy cow. What is it with me and reading books at the EXACT right time in my life that I needed to read them? This was phenomenal. Gut-wrenching. Hard to listen to at some points (I listened to the audiobook). It was scary to be in the midst of the deepest, darkest parts of the author's life, and then out of nowhere, she would describe an experience so incredibly specific, but so deeply familiar to my own life, that it caught me completely off guard. This book made me think deeply about what it means to think for yourself. Who do we allow to do our thinking for us? Who do we allow to construct our reality? 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent, Dementia, Gun violence, Abandonment, Ableism, Miscarriage, and Stalking

If you are reading these content warnings and are concerned about non-consensual sexual content:

The author does not describe any sexual touching or rape scenes, only scenes of physical abuse that may have themes of body shaming and/or humiliation. It's extremely uncomfortable, but there are no descriptions of rape in this book, if that is a hard limit for you.

kpoppe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Medical content, Death, Child abuse, Body shaming, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Violence, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, and Animal death

inneriara's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Car accident, Death, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Toxic relationship, Islamophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, and Gun violence

milaju's review against another edition

challenging inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Car accident, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Violence

leefox's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Car accident, Gaslighting, Medical content, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Gore, and Child abuse

Moderate: Classism and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Cancer, Dementia, Miscarriage, Animal death, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, and Misogyny