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Educated by Tara Westover

4 reviews

maya_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Car accident, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Medical content, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

readingwords's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Drug abuse

jennawebbles's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

It's hard to write reviews of memoirs because it's like, how am I supposed to judge someone's life story? Is someone's story not meant to be read if it's not written well? I mulled this over a lot when discussing this book with my sister. I decided that this story, though very hard to read, felt like a very important one to be told.

One thing I really appreciated that Westover explains many times is that while recounting these childhood stories, she also reached out to her siblings to fact check her. With trauma, sometimes the human mind changes details over the years. She honestly tries hard to make sure her story is factual, but admits that details may have been incorrect due to her memory differing from someone else's.

This book has sat with me for a while. It was definitely a brutal read, particularly the chapters about her brother Shaun's abuses towards her. I'm glad Westover was able to achieve so much despite the upbringing she received and I hope telling her story was helpful towards her processing her childhood.

Definitely not for the light-hearted, but eye-opening for sure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

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