Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Educated by Tara Westover

10 reviews

matonnhermann's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Blood, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Abandonment, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

rebah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Torture, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Body shaming, Sexism, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Grief, Gun violence, Cancer, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Genocide, Classism, Cursing, Dementia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Physical abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

aislinnh's review

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

tobiolovebot's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book was transformative.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Car accident, Violence, Mental illness, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Racism, Pregnancy, Animal death, Cancer, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Antisemitism, Blood, and Murder

dlsmk's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Antisemitism, Body horror, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Grief, Toxic relationship, Hate crime, and Gun violence

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

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

arthomas's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Blood, Car accident, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexism

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

sinnabeanz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Incredibly detailed, well written and definitely a book to get you thinking and grateful for your own upbringing. Reading this in my last year of high-school may have been one of the best decisions I've made, and I feel that this memoir is something that I will always remember as a favourite. There are many lessons and thoughts to be taken from this book, so glad my Uncle Grant decided to gift me this book last year, and I'm even happier to have read it this year specifically! Would  for sure recommend this book to nearly everyone, would suggest checking out the trigger warnings first though!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Terminal illness, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death of parent