Educated

Hardcover, 488 pages

Published Oct. 1, 2018 by Charnwood.

ISBN:
978-1-4448-3841-1
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4 stars (11 reviews)

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Review of 'Educated' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

This book just didn’t grip me. I was forcing myself to pick it up and read it. I think the utter selfishness of her parents was too much for me and I shit myself off from it. I reached the part where Tara is forced to work in the scrapyard and gets a metal bar in her leg. That was it for me. DNF.

Review of 'Educated' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Ich bin hin- und hergerissen wegen diesem Buch.
Was ich gutgemacht finde, ist wie intim und genau Tara ihre Familie kennt. Wie sie die verschiedenen Formen und Verwandlungen der Gewalt beschreibt, die sie und andere innerhalb der Familie erleben. Ich glaube ihr jedes Wort, jede Geste ihres Bruders Shawn, des Vaters und ihrer Mutter. Jede neue Allianz innerhalb dieser intimen Runde, und wie schnell sich die Macht wieder verschiebt. Sie schafft es sogar, dass ich wütend auf sie werde, wütend auf eine Person, die immer noch ,,stuck" ist bei ihrer Familie, weil sie wieder und wieder neu sich einredet, sie kann das alles reparieren. Wütend bis zu einem Frust sogar, der mir das Buch fast unleidlich macht. Bei jedem neuen Gewaltausbruch denkt man, so das ist der Showdown; aber mitnichten. Schwer bei Memoiren sich über den Plot zu beschweren, aber bei jedem anderen Buch hätte ich geschrieben: Das ist VIEL …

Review of 'Educated' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I hadn’t wanted to read this book. Sure, I’d marked it want-to-read, but I’d secretly been hoping I could avoid actually doing so. No such luck: a friend pressed her copy into my hands. I swallowed hard as I thanked her.

It was oh so much more infuriating than I’d expected. I did not like the feelings it evoked in me, of fury and helplessness. Things don’t have to be that way!, I kept wanting to shout into the book. But that’s the thing about ignorance: you just don’t know any better; and that’s the thing about an American subculture that worships stupidity: you rarely get the chance to learn.

Tara Westover was incredibly fortunate: hyperintelligent, talented, and somehow presented with improbable opportunities at just the right times. She escaped—although she never really will, not entirely, that sort of trauma forever shapes a mind. For every Tara, though, there …

Review of 'Educated' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

A powerful synthesis of one woman's escape from a toxic, reality-distorting tribal faith. I think anyone who has had the way they understand the world destroyed and transformed will find pieces of themselves in Tara's story. This is one I need to reread every year, as a reminder.

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