Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Educated by Tara Westover

430 reviews

pranjuli's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

I wanna know more and lesser at the same time. Tara has a gift - this is undeniable, and her story is one of inspiration and abandon at the same time. I am horrified as well as gratified. 

Weirdly, despite being a story so away from our lives, Tara doesn't come across as an alien when discussing about her feelings and fears and how she felt when thrown into new situations after living a completely different life for 17 years. She doesn't feel unnatural, she doesn't come across as miraculous either. 
She is a woman, just like any of us, who had to grapple with so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

princesspanda18's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

miorinsa's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

This memoir is powerful, challenging, rage inducing, and transformative. Tara’s journey from an emotionally, mentally, and physically abused child to a strong, confident, educated woman is awe-inspiring. The way she tells her story of how she grappled with being loyal to her family versus loyal to herself is difficult to witness, but something we can all identify with, even if on a less severe level. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, and Animal death

alexmoody's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

maggiemcfly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Animal death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

papaveriepapere's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Bullying, Gaslighting, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, and Violence

somberlittleman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

One of the most important and infuriating memoirs I’ve ever read. If you want to know some of the worst and most pitiful depths homeschooling in America can reach, Educated displays them unflinchingly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Cancer

futuredocmartin's review

dark reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Car accident, Blood, Mental illness, and Child abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Animal death, Religious bigotry, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Racial slurs

marissasa's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

This memoir is a testament to the author's strength and resilience, and the ways in which education and the way we are raised really shapes who people become. Although this story is often harrowing and tense, the author had a bit of an emotionless matter-of-fact writing style that made it such that I wanted to keep reading but I never felt truly moved or emotional. This style makes sense though as she speaks about the way she learned to not let it show that the trauma and abuse she experienced got to her and to not outwardly show her weakness. I do really admire the courage she found to live life on her own terms and to write this book without the support of most of her family members.

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Content Warnings

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

littlelikkel's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Car accident, and Racial slurs