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Educated by Tara Westover

114 reviews

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

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

mattyvreads's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

One of the finest memoirs I’ve ever read. Wholly insightful and brutally honest.

Westover’s writing is so visceral. She describes each memory with vivid detail. It is impressive and intentionally uncomfortable.

This story was so compelling and very moving. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal death, Racial slurs, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

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

glass_carousel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Xenophobia, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Medical trauma

bethanyt123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma

emcheym's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal death, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Cancer, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

kather_doc's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Racial slurs, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Cancer

aliwhaley's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is fantastic and tragic and inspiring all at once. It’s hard to believe people like this really exist, and the fact that they do is so harrowing. With or without the Mormonism and end-of-days bent, these stories of manipulation and abuse play out time and again, and it is so difficult to read it from inside the mind of the victim. I am so impressed by Dr. Tara Westover.

As a writer, her ability to convey at once how she felt at the time events unfolded, whilst also conveying the incongruity of those feelings now that she has reflected and grown, but also having compassion for her former self is astonishing. She writes terrifying people, and yet their moments of loveableness are believable. You feel every blow with her.

And, as a human, her strength is just incredible. I wish everybody in a similar situation could read this book and know they’re not in the wrong

All the content warnings - this is not a light read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence and Genocide

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

poppyedition's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, and Toxic relationship