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L'educazione by Tara Westover

111 reviews

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 against another edition

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

radtj's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Car accident, Religious bigotry, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Animal death

antidietleah's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Car accident and Animal death

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Dementia

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, 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