Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Educated by Tara Westover

89 reviews

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

mamaewalk's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Medical content, Animal death, Violence, Car accident, and Mental illness

Minor: Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

taracoleman's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Racial slurs, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief, Gun violence, Sexism, Slavery, Antisemitism, Cancer, Genocide, and Miscarriage

booklover_04's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Very well written. Hard to read at some parts due to the abuse. I would recommend going into this book without prior knowledge.

I knew that she eventually left, which I feel ruined the anticipation. I did find it shocking that she wasn’t the first in her family to leave. Definitely changed the story, as it shaped her experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, Chronic illness, Racism, Sexism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Body shaming, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Bullying, Classism, Misogyny, Confinement, Violence, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Gun violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

mal_reads_books's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is my second time reading Educated since its release five years ago. I still found it powerful, as if I'd just read it for the first time.

For this reading, I jumped between the audiobook and e-book. Julia Whelan, the narrator, was easy to listen to and perfect for the book. I preferred listening to the audiobook, though reading the physical/e-book is certainly worthwhile too.

Tara is a great storyteller. Her unique experience growing up and dealing with her family was interesting to read, though disturbing at times. Her growth in challenging her family's values, overcoming obstacles, and her desire to expand her knowledge were inspiring.

I highly recommend this book, though I advise checking content warnings (especially for DA/DV survivors).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Car accident, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Animal death, and Racial slurs

Minor: Antisemitism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gun violence

Seeing Tara put up with and downplay the abuse (described in detail) from her brother, and her family defending him, was difficult to read. In chapter 20, Tara's brother insults her with the n-word more than a handful of times. Most instances are censored in the e-book, but the audiobook narrator says the word out loud. In another chapter, Tara's brother stabs

his German Shepherd

to death.

bail33's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Car accident, Violence, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Gun violence

tigerkind's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Both praising and criticizing this  feels wrong, as it contains  fairly detailed accounts of abuse. However, it was extremely well written and constructed, allowing for a reflection on the broader systematic workings of power relations in religion, family and education. Even though a memoir, it was at times written with so much detail and emotion that I had to remind myself I was listening to a non-fiction work and not a novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Unfortunately, it feels like the legal challenges the author apparently faced, which forced her to include disclaimers, paraphrase and use pseudonyms, somewhat hampered the overall impact of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Car accident, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Gaslighting, Body horror, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Child abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Classism, Slavery, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Genocide, Islamophobia, Murder, and Police brutality

heatherchrisman's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Car accident, Mental illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Racism, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Violence

aislinnh's review against another edition

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

noedki's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Car accident, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy