EDUCATED: A MEMOIR
TARA WESTOVER
It took me way longer than it should have to read this book. It was nothing to do with the book, the book itself was great! The last month and a half has been a bit rough for my family, with two deaths and a very scary and serious hospitalization, I didn't have quite as much time one my hands to read. You would thing that sitting in in a hospital for a week would give you EXTRA time to read, but when your loved one is in pain and needs help with things, what seems to be every twenty minutes, reading becomes HARD.
Educated is the first memoir that I have ever read. I usually tend to read fictional books. Saying that, this book was amazing. A girl with no formal education( if you can even count her informal information), decides she is going to attempt to get into college. She does this by going to a book store and buying textbooks to teach her in subjects, such as Algebra. Then she reads these textbooks and teaches herself with some help from an older sibling, so that she can take the ACT test to get into a university. This decision was not made only to be able to go to college, but to also get away from her family. Even though she has grown up with them and knows nothing else, Tara still fees that there is something wrong with the things that happen in her home, so she chooses to leave.
Her father is anti government to the CORE, and is a bit deranged when it comes to some of his beliefs. Her mother, follows her father with everything that he says, whether this is because she truly agrees with him or because she is scared, it is hard to tell. Through this book Tara struggles with the idea of leaving, staying, and simply what is right and wrong. This book is a story of Tara's life and the transformation of where she came from, to where she is now.
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If you've read this book, let me know what your thoughts were on it, I'd love to hear!
Educated is the first memoir that I have ever read. I usually tend to read fictional books. Saying that, this book was amazing. A girl with no formal education( if you can even count her informal information), decides she is going to attempt to get into college. She does this by going to a book store and buying textbooks to teach her in subjects, such as Algebra. Then she reads these textbooks and teaches herself with some help from an older sibling, so that she can take the ACT test to get into a university. This decision was not made only to be able to go to college, but to also get away from her family. Even though she has grown up with them and knows nothing else, Tara still fees that there is something wrong with the things that happen in her home, so she chooses to leave.
Her father is anti government to the CORE, and is a bit deranged when it comes to some of his beliefs. Her mother, follows her father with everything that he says, whether this is because she truly agrees with him or because she is scared, it is hard to tell. Through this book Tara struggles with the idea of leaving, staying, and simply what is right and wrong. This book is a story of Tara's life and the transformation of where she came from, to where she is now.
Check it out on Amazon!
If you've read this book, let me know what your thoughts were on it, I'd love to hear!
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