#Tara Westover

[bypatia]

book recs no one asked for: always coming home by ursula k le guin, why we swim by bonnie tsui, a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini, if you want feminist soul-changing, hopepunk, touches the veil of life reads, and educated by tara westover, all about love by bell hooks, the year of magical thinking by joan didion if you want real, visceral takes on love, grief, and being the master of your own fate, bye

#book recs #booklr #bookblr #always coming home #ursula k. le guin #why we swim #bonnie tsui #a thousand splendid suns #khaled hosseini #educated #tara westover #all about love #bell hooks #the year of magical thinking #joan didion #they’re all feminist btw #anti intellectualism #books #🐚

[llovelymoonn]

tara westover educated

kofi

#on life #tara westover #educated #quotes

[lets-get-lit]

Curiosity is a luxury for the financially secure.

- Tara Westover, Educated

#quotes #books #literature #lit #classics #academia #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #book #book quotes #quotation #Tara Westover #Educated #Memoir #Nonfiction #Education

[smallceremoniesofmine]

“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”

#tara westover #education #educated #art #life #culture #love #quote #books #bookstagram #bookblr #book review #book quotes #quotes #money #economy #society #the eras taylor swift #taylor swift #taylornation #joe alwyn #dune part 2

[escapeintothepages]

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell.”

Educated, Tara Westover

#educated #tara westover #reading #book quotes

[dane-zaboravim]

Sada, u dobi od dvadeset devet godina, sjela sam pisati, rekonstruirati trenutak od odjeka i eha umorna sjećanja. Kopam za njim. Kad dođem do kraja, zaustavljam se. U ovoj priči postoji nedosljednost, neki duh.

Čitam. Čitam iznova. I tu je.

Tko je ugasio vatru?

Dugo uspavani glas kaže, tata je.

Obrazovana, Tara Westover

#citati #tekstovi #knjizevnost #tara westover

[kahvemsogumadan]

Talebe otobiyografik bir roman. Bana psikolojik olarak yorucu ve ağır geldi. O yüzden okuması kolay diyemem ama etkileyiciydi. Okurken bunlar gerçek insanlar mı hayal ürünü mü demekten kendinizi alamıyorsunuz. Ama yaşananlardansa karakterin o yaşananlar karşısında ki duruşu ve tavrı beni şaşırttı. İster istemez neden neden diye kafamın içinde bağırırken buldum kendimi.

#kitap #alıntı #books #talebe #tara westover

[bettygemma]

In no order, here are my reading highlights for 2023

Best literary page turner (LPT)

This is a tie between 'I have some questions for you' by Rebecca Makkai and 'Birnam Wood' by Eleanor Catton. Both about moral quandaries of some sort, both really well written and extremely readable.

Best fantasy

'Babel' by R. F. Kuang. After I finished Babel I had to stare into the void for a little while to recover. One of the questions the book asks is, is it actually possible for those with power to be truly friends to those without power, and it answers pretty firmly in the negative. Which I remember being sad and sceptical about when I first read the book in August but now, on this side of the Voice to Parliament Referendum, it feels extremely prescient (*laughs bitterly*).

Best Australian fiction

'Love and Virtue' by Diana Reid. Also best campus novel of the year (I read lot of them in 2023 coincidentally!) I was devastated to end this book, not only because parts of this novel are set in my home town #representation but more importantly its genuinely brilliant and empathetic and recognisable. Also has multiple moral quandaries.

Best retelling

'Home Fire' by Kamila Shamsie which is a retelling of Antigone. I knew nothing about Antigone going in so found it super intense and surprising. Just like 'Love and Virtue ' I could have spent a hundred more pages with these characters.

Best Lenten read

'Passage' by Connie Willis. Willis is now probably my second favourite writer after Dorothy Sayers, and this book is up there as one of her greats, along with 'Doomsday Book' and 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'. A book to read to when death is near and you are in need of hope.

Best memoir

'Educated' by Tara Westover. Also wins the prize for being the book that made me the most thankful for my parents and for them sending me to a normal public school (honourable mention for this prize goes to 'I'm glad my mom died' by Jennette McCurdy').

Best feminist read

'Wifedom' by Anna Funder. Part biography of Eileen O'Shaughnessy, part novel, part memoir, this book is possibly the best investigation of the toll domestic inequality has on women I've read for a number of years. Read it if you're interested in biography and women's history and the literary canon. In one of the many passages that jumped out at me, after praising her husband for his modernity and equal mindedness, Funder writes:

"This was not enough to protect me. The patriarchy was too huge, and I was too small or stupid, or just not up for the fight. The individual man can be the loveliest, the system will still benefit him, without him having to lift a finger or a whip or change the sheets. This is the story I tell against myself. And against the system that made this self, as well as my husband's, and the system that put her into his service. Wifedom is a wicked magic trick we have learned to play on ourselves."

I mean??!?!

And finally, Book I recommended the most

'This is not a book about Benedict Cumberbatch' by Tabitha Carvon. I hyped this book to nearly every woman I know. Extremely funny if you were in Tumblr in 2012 or have ever participated in any fandom. A great companion read to 'Wifedom'. May it inspire you to find joy.

#adultbooklr #connie willis #anna funder #tabitha carvon #kamila shamsie #rebecca makkai #eleanor catton #r. f. kuang #diana reid #tara westover

[deepdrearn]

Educated (Tara Westover)

#educated #tara westover

[thinking-in-broken-scenes]

One Book/book series that defined you at each of your ages

Rules: you can start at the age you learned to read, You must have read the book, or the first book in the series, by the age you're using it for

Age 5: Ramona Novels by Beverly Cleary

Age 6: Little House on The Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Age 7: The Chronicles of Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis

Age 8: Harry Potter by JKR [ I am Not suggesting reading these books but they did have a significant effect on me as a kid]

Age 9: The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins

Age 10: Septimus Heap Books by Angie Sage

Age 11: The Book Theif by Markus Zusak

Age 12: It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

Age 13: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky,

Age 14: The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

Age 15: Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Age 16: Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

Age 17: Andrew's Brain by E.L. Doctorow

Age 18: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Age 19: I don't Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz

Age 20: The Night Child by Anna Quinn

Age 21: The Novelization of The Day of The Doctor by Steven Moffat

Age 22: Educated by Tara Westover

Age 23: The Locked Tomb Series by Tamsyn Muir

The Bolded are like ones that I really recommend

Honourable Mentions:

A cricket in time square (5)

A Little Life (23)

Anything else by Ellen Hopkins (teens)

Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyandk Young (22)

Wild Embers (teens & 20s)

And of course, all of the psychology books I've read (but I kept it to narrative stories)

@emiliosandozsequence (only do if you want to of course! )

And i Tag anyone else who's super bored and needs a repetitive task to calm them down

#my post #friends! #tag game #reader #reading #books #bookbler #bookler #reading game #the locked tomb #the night child #tasmyn muir #tara westover #sharp objects #gillian flynn #ellen hopkins #the perks of being a wallflower #septimus heap #the book thief #the chronicles of narnia #acdemia #light acamedia #dark academia

[mylifeincharingcrossroad]

#the handmaids tale hbo #the handmaids tale #the handmaid's tale hbo #the handmaid's tale #serena joy #serena waterford #educated #tara westover

[bocampo02]

“Educated” (Una Educación) de Tara Westover

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Que historia tan poderosa.

Me costó leer algunos de los capítulos por la rabia que me provocaban. La ignorancia es verdaderamente una virtud para algunos. Me sentí muy conmovida por la historia de Tara por lo difícil, doloroso y significativo que fue su camino.

Hubo un capítulo cerca del final en el que su madre enfrenta algunas crudas revelaciones que me pusieron los ojos cristalinos. Los temas discutidos en este libro son complejos, pero creo que Tara hizo un trabajo increíble al mantenerse imparcial y concentrarse en lo que era importante: contar su historia.

La escritura fue hermosa de principio a fin, su elección de palabras siempre fue precisa y simple, pero complicada al mismo tiempo. Lo consciente e inteligente que es Tara... me resultó verdaderamente admirable.

Para ser honesto, no estaba disfrutando la historia al principio, pero se vuelve mejor y mucho más profunda durante la segunda mitad. Terminarás amando este libro, siendo cuestionado y educado a la vez sobre ti mismo, quien eres y de dónde vienes.

Definitivamente una de mis lecturas favoritas del año.

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#writing #poetsandwriters #poetasperdidos #poets corner #poetic #libros #reseña #Educated #tara westover #booknerd #bookworm

[iheardyourprayer]

"Vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one's own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people."

Tara Westover, Educated

#writing #ems being loud #educated #tara westover #reading

[e-b-reads]

Book(s) of the month: May 2022

May felt approximately 3 months long, though unfortunately this is because my days were very full with work, not with time for reading.  Still, I always manage to find some time, so here are the books I read this May that I would definitely recommend:

- The View From Saturday (E.L. Konigsburg): A reread, and always a pleasant one. It is a children’s book, and reading it as an adult is a different experience from when I was a kid--for one thing, instead of thinking, “I would want to be these kids’ friend,” I think, “I might want to be their teacher.”  But it has stuff in it that is good for adults to read, too.  It is about a sixth-grade quiz team and their teacher, and how to win gracefully, and the way sometimes we need to give each other help on our journeys, and mostly about the importance of kindness.

- Educated (Tara Westover): A memoir from a mormon girl (now woman) whose family was/is very conservative, and anti-government, to the point that she (youngest of seven) and several of her siblings never actually attended grade school, but also weren’t really comprehensively homeschooled.  (Also her father is constantly preparing for the end of days.)  But she takes some tests, and makes it to college, and then to graduate school, getting into various prestigious programs--and then eventually writes this book.  I’m not sure that the book has one comprehensive theme or lesson; I mean, it’s well written, it has a few themes throughout, but there isn’t one phrase you can just pull out of it to say what it’s about.  Which is why it’s worth reading the whole thing!

- American Hippo (Sarah Gailey): This is technically the connected novellas Rivers of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, plus two related short stories.  It’s ridiculous, and lots of fun.  In this alternate 1890s America, feral hippos infest the dammed Mississippi River (and not-quite-cowboys ride around on tamed ones).  The stories are quick, silly, action-y (solid amounts of violence) and also...cute?  I enjoyed how the leader of the crew--the handsome, capable, bisexual white guy who seems supposed to have it all together--kept getting incredibly flustered about/around his Black nonbinary love interest.  Anyway, pretty sure I first saw this book suggested on tumblr, which makes sense as it does fit several tumblr-favorite buzzwords, but I enjoyed the characters beyond their labels, too!

#books of the month #book recs #the view from saturday #e. l. konigsburg #educated #tara westover #american hippo #sarah gailey #i felt like Educated - tho it had the thread of schooling/knowledge/etc holding it together - was even more about family #it has some hard-to-read scenes of abuse and/or injury #but if you can stomach those it is fascinating

[escapeintothepages]

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”

Educated, Tara Westover

#educated #tara westover #reading #book quotes

[andreabadgley]

Reading on the couch with Tootsie. I’m officially out of quarantine, but my trip to the grocery store wore me out.

#books #cats of tumblr #caturday #educated #tara westover