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Educated by Tara Westover

99 reviews

rachealcroucher's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, and Forced institutionalization

montana_cole's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, and Mental illness

rumay's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Gun violence and Vomit

Minor: Genocide

madz_lyr's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Car accident, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

madisonrose1519's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.5

I didn’t know what I was really getting into when I picked up this book. I thought it took place in the Middle East for some reason. I just grabbed it from my mom’s shelf. I don’t know if I would have started it had I known about the deeply conservative U.S. family from which Westover broke free, but I’m SO glad I did. 

Westover’s accounts of what she endured in her childhood were shocking. I’ve been trying to read books I find more challenging, and having been on a memoir kick lately, and this was perfect for that. This is the second memoir I’ve read that exposed some of the darkest sides of Mormonism, and I’m blown away by how little I knew about it before. 

Westover’s writing is formal yet still easy to read and enjoy. It’s somber yet thrilling. I love how she ended so many of her chapters with such poignant, concise remarks, particularly after the most emotionally difficult to read portions. It made it easy to feel like I could set the book aside and say to myself, “And that’s enough of that for now,” so, without a cliffhanger, I could reflect and collect my thoughts on what she had written without getting too overwhelmed by all the trauma she experienced as a child. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Death

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, and Panic attacks/disorders

gabyisafreeelf's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Animal cruelty, Sexism, Racism, Body shaming, Cursing, and Domestic abuse

madelinegl's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Car accident, and Child abuse

Minor: Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Cancer, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, and Death

jspain's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

i like books like this cause i am nosey

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Antisemitism, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Colonisation, Body shaming, Terminal illness, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Cancer, Blood, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Classism

ameliaflint's review against another edition

4.5

This book is honestly too good. I have read it over and over again and Westover's story never ceases to amaze and inspire me. After reading this I always have a renewed gratitude for the resources and support for learning that I have available to me. I like her writing style too. I will say that I kind of disliked the narrator of this audiobook. When I reread next (which I definitely will haha) maybe I will do so with another audiobook recording.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Violence, and Mental illness

Wow I really just scrolled through the content warning list and clicked probably every third one!! Be careful out there if you are triggered easily.

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

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

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