Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Educated by Tara Westover

5 reviews

slascano's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Self harm, and Physical abuse

Fundamentalist Mormon isolation resilient

naomib_'s review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Bullying, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Murder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Body shaming, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racial slurs

Minor: Blood, Murder, and Abandonment

alisonannk's review

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Racism, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Torture, Violence, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement, Classism, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer and Dementia

tigerkind's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Both praising and criticizing this  feels wrong, as it contains  fairly detailed accounts of abuse. However, it was extremely well written and constructed, allowing for a reflection on the broader systematic workings of power relations in religion, family and education. Even though a memoir, it was at times written with so much detail and emotion that I had to remind myself I was listening to a non-fiction work and not a novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Unfortunately, it feels like the legal challenges the author apparently faced, which forced her to include disclaimers, paraphrase and use pseudonyms, somewhat hampered the overall impact of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Car accident, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Gaslighting, Body horror, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Child abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Classism, Slavery, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Genocide, Islamophobia, Murder, and Police brutality

lizziej96's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, War, Vomit, Violence, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Torture, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Car accident, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Suicide, Sexual assault, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Emotional abuse