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Educated by Tara Westover

145 reviews

eve81's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Medical content, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cancer

mal_03's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

The first memior I actually got to the end of. I'm much more of a fast paced book reader but something about Tara's story makes you want to keep going.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, and Pregnancy

elderwoodreads's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I was a bit hesitant to read this as I feel memoirs in this genre (person denied education receives education) can be a little one note. This is the book of the genre. Westover is an amazing writer both in her storytelling as well as her reflection. Must read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Drug use, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Dementia, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

emileemaree's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Violence, Car accident, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

vicreads24's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, and Fire/Fire injury

laurajordensharris's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

kellymacbrown's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

2.75

It was meh. It was really just Tara Westover telling what happened in her life. Straight through narrative. This happened and then that happened. I can’t say I was super inspired by it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Gaslighting

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

I see why Educated is such a popular memoir - an avid reader of the genre myself, many people have told me that this is the only one that they've read in the past half-decade or so.

Westover has a vivid and transporting sense of description, and Whelan reads her words with a measured and flowing cadance (although I could do without her attempts at Idaho accents and masculine tones when reading dialogue). Westover is also extremely cognizant of the core of memoir - that it is one person's truth, and that one person's truth has power. Add that to how it demonstrates the highly political nature of education, and of course Westover has a captivating book.

That said, I feel part of the appeal for a lot of people is the shock of Westover's upbringing and a certain desire to gawk. This gawking desire draws lots of people to memoirs, but Educated is especially primed for it. I have to wonder how others are engaging with it - hopefully more than on a 'damn, that was crazy' level.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Cancer

pandemonicbaby's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

I think this book might have changed my life.
This book is such a marvelous, deeply interesting exploration of the power of education, of the meaning of family, of struggling with abuse and still being able to forge an identity for yourself afterward. Her path towards education is also a path towards being able to think for herself, instead of being told what to think by others. This might be the strongest, most powerful message woven in between the threads of this memoir, an ode to finding yourself through education.
So much nuance, so many tiny little intricacies present in the text show that Tara Westover truly is a historian -- that she's able to see the many different versions of a story and present them to the reader, making them reflect upon the significance and meaning of each unique account. "[...] nothing final can be known", as she quotes John Stuart Mill.
I feel like I'm going to reread this soon, just so I can underline the passages in this book that are so powerful they would make anyone stop reading just to reflect upon them. I shouldn't have been scared of underlining this book, gosh!! I gotta start being more willing to do that, whenever I think it might be important to me.
All in all, wonderful book. Marvelously crafted, beautiful writing, moving and powerful message. I cried reading this. I think it will stay with me forever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Genocide, Miscarriage, Racism, Vomit, and Mass/school shootings

insideunder's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Classism