Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Educated by Tara Westover

20 reviews

sasshq's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child abuse, Animal death, Bullying, Medical content, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Blood, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Sexism, Violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Torture

Minor: Antisemitism, Body shaming, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Cancer, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Vomit, Death, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Grief, Genocide, Misogyny, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Stalking, Dementia, and Medical content

aspvisualarts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Child death, Medical trauma, Sexism, Body horror, Body shaming, Grief, Mental illness, and Violence

honeyvoiced's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Racial slurs, Car accident, Antisemitism, Cancer, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Death and Vomit

thefemale_nickmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

I am convinced that Exile by Taylor swift was written about chapter 38

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Violence, Animal death, Body horror, Grief, Medical trauma, and Vomit

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

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

sparringego8's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Vomit, Sexual violence, and Racism

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

funmilayo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Antisemitism, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Sexism, Violence, and Vomit

juliebergmann's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely incredible. A deeply affective book I can highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Medical content, Medical trauma, Violence, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body horror, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, and Child abuse

Minor: Abandonment, Antisemitism, Ableism, Racism, Vomit, Miscarriage, Gun violence, Death, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Cancer