Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

Educated by Tara Westover

4 reviews

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

miraclereads's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

The book is soo awe-inspiring! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

ichthusangel's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Cultural appropriation, Gun violence, Violence, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Animal death, Antisemitism, Hate crime, Mental illness, Bullying, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Torture

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