Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

Educated by Tara Westover

5 reviews

kkpines's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Domestic abuse and Cultural appropriation

ger561's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Educated is a book that explores the themes of religion and how when taken to the extremes can become something akin to a cult. Tara the main character goes through her life as a young girl without going to school. She learns everything about the world through her family and grows up thinking that the outside world is evil. However when her brother helps her go to college she has to figure out how to differentiate the image of the world as she learned it to how it actually is along with a changing relationship with her family.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, and Violence

Minor: Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Cultural appropriation

miraclereads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

The book is soo awe-inspiring! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Cultural appropriation

ichthusangel's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, and Gaslighting

catalinapinzaru's review against another edition

challenging hopeful medium-paced

3.25

This book is not about education at all! It is about an abusive family, a complicated life of someone who learned how to become part of the society. For a book which claims to be about education and the importance of knowledge - it disscuses to little about the learning process and the author tells us how hard it is in general to study and does not explain or truly show how education has changed her life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol