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Educated by Tara Westover

29 reviews

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.

marpaige's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Blood, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Car accident, Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Religious bigotry

rachelbug's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Grief

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

bseigel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Body horror, Body shaming, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

This is an extremely difficult book to read - it details systematic levels of trauma and gaslighting and should not be read lightly.

neni's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

 This was amazing. The way the author writes is incredibly gripping and compelling. Her life and her experiences are so far from anything I’ve experience or even thought it was possible to experience nowadays, that I kept needing to remind myself the story was true and not some indredibly elaborate fiction. And yet I was still able to empathise and engage with the story on an emotional level, because the writing was so good.
 

It was painful and yet fascinating to read about her interactions with her family, with all the gaslighting and the toxicity, and yet experience some beautiful, wholesome moments with her too. I think the author did a fantastic job of telling the story in a way that felt just and appropriate to the gravity anfd complexity of the situation, didn’t diminish the validity of her experiences and feelings, and yet wasn’t an angry manifesto about how singularly evil her family was. There was pain and violence, but also compassion in there, and that made it an even more valuable read because people, and life, are just like that. Messy and incoherent and unresolved in a way that is not necessarily “satisfying” like fiction is. 

I was also just overall immensely impressed with her life’s journey. Having no access to an education and then ending up with degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, being super talented at writing, is just like WOW. Not to mention the ammount of growth, work and self-reflection that processing and getting through all that trauma must have necessitated. Truly astonishing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Antisemitism, Bullying, Car accident, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Vomit, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Dysphoria, Islamophobia, and Adult/minor relationship

quil's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Racism, Religious bigotry, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical content, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Antisemitism

betsygrace's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

This book was so good! I am growing increasingly concerned over some of the similarities between the religious extremism here and the evangelical family in which I was raised, but I really admire Westover’s perseverance. As a person who is also devoted to education, I really loved this book, despite how triggering parts of it could be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Toxic relationship, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Bullying, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Gaslighting

Minor: Antisemitism

toothpastefairy's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

It's a deeply reflective memoir, in which Tara details her life thus far in a way that simultaneously terrifies me and provides some hope. Family relationships and the complexity of one's loyalties to blood versus oneself is difficult to write about, but Tara examines them with nuance and clarity. The cognitive dissonance and difficulties with growing apart from a family structure built on paranoia and isolation is also expertly described - there is a gentle empathy in her reflections.

Overall fantastic book, it certainly holds sentimental and personal value to me. An excellent and needed recommendation from my sister. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

Moderate: Genocide, Gun violence, Grief, Murder, and Racial slurs

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Genocide, Death, Colonisation, Cancer, and Animal death