• Reviews around brother (1.82 of 5)

    Educated: A Memoir

    • Her one brother, Shawn, was extremely abusive and manipulating of her and her siblings
    • The abuse from her over zealous religious survivalist father and her very physically abusive older brother made it at times difficult to
    • I am so very glad she escaped the tyranny of her father, mother, and abusive brother
    • Her brother, Richard, gained a degree in Chemistry and it notes in his bio that he had less than a fundamental knowledge of math when he first applied for the
    • Her mother and father cheer the brother on, encouraging him in his abuse.
    • Check the reviews by the author's former significant other and brother
    • Her one brother was certainly a bully and an abuser
    • It seem to be the honest truth that sometimes was difficult to believe a brother could be so cruel
    • And for a brother to be allowed to terrorize a sister on multiple occasions is just abuse
    • Here’s the example: When her older brother & father tries to kill her & her other brother protects her, because her father says she’s, quote
    • I think if anything, she has spared the reader the sexual abuse that likely occurred at the hands of her tyrannical brother and father
    • I hope the curtains are removed from the eyes of those who weren't, and pray her brother is stopped before hurting another innocent soul.
    • The abuse she suffers not just from her violent brother, but the mental
    • A WHORE!!That’s why I believe that there was an ongoing hold that her father continued to have over her is the real reason for her paralyzing approach to this REAL time bomb between her mom, good brother & herself!This book, maybe titled Educated, but it’s not about getting educated
    • The author deserves utmost admiration, respect and recognition for what she accomplished, emancipating herself from authoritarian and myopic and violent parents and elder brother and to seek and get and eventually excel in a formal education on a global level
    • I wanted to burn the mountain house down , kill her brother, and save her from him
    • Was it the designated role she was assigned at birth- a girl in a fanatically religious family by a dominating father and brother
    • She realized she bore the brunt of extreme religious beliefs and practices as well as beset by her father’s and brother’s mental illness and distorted thinking and their abusive behavior toward her
    • I cringed as I read of her travails as a child, supposedly being "home-schooled", but in truth, receiving a very different kind of education, working in the junkyard for her bipolar father, and at the mercy of an equally unbalanced and abusive older brother
    • I think that her description of such intellectual pursuit is supposed to have in light of her virtually rendering invisible her brother's continued freedom to abuse (and find pleasure in that
    • This is after her brother has serious dental problems.
    • Abusive father, abusive brother, herself and another brother victimized by their sibling and a mother manipulated by her husband and son
    • Her brother abused her physically and mentally and threatened to kill her
    • Secondly, and more importantly, what I find rather disturbing, is that despite the formidable education she accomplished, she protects that family, her bipolar (her words) father and her cruel and violent elder brother
    • I admire what Tara achieved under the circumstances: growing up with a psychotic father and an abusive brother.
    • All I can think of, having read the book, is those poor children, who are what, around 10ish by now?If her education--and that of her 2 brothers, all of whom know in detail what their abusive brother is capable of--can't help her (them) protect those children, help to actively mitigate against the kind of control and abuses described throughout her story, what benefit is it to anyone?
    • Then one night after her nasty brother & father manipulate her & basically tries to kill her..& her good brother..out of the blue says to
    • Living "off the grid" means no social security numbers or birth certificates, yet the older brothers drive trucks and work for outside employers.
    • Her brother, Tyler, in a review of the book was correcting some of her misconceptions and said that her father never said that was the case.
    • More impressive, however, is her journey, quite a harrowing one, from the mountains of Idaho, from a fundamentalist LDS family over which her father ruled with devote immersion in religious mythology and delusion, from a home that denied science and any sort of rational thinking, that believed in and practiced, and continues to practice, discredited herbal therapies, placing Tara, family members, and others who came to them for help in mortal danger, and that, above all, not only condoned but shielded an abusive brother, putting Tara, her sister, and her sister-in-law in the path of constant psychological and physical abuse
    • tyrannical survivalist father and an abusive brother
    • If Tara never separated herself from her abusive brother, who knows how her life would have played out.
    • She also survives numerous "attempted murder" attacks by her cruel brother
    • In her memoir “Educated,” the extreme bipolar behavior of Tara’s abusive brother Shawn is believable, as is the damaging loyalty of her mom to her husband (Tara’s dad)
    • Then one night after her nasty brother & father manipulate her & basically tries to kill her..& her good brother..out of the blue says to
    • All I can think of, having read the book, is those poor children, who are what, around 10ish by now?If her education--and that of her 2 brothers, all of whom know in detail what their abusive brother is capable of--can't help her (them) protect those children, help to actively mitigate against the kind of control and abuses described throughout her story, what benefit is it to anyone?
    • She also learned about mental illness and came to see her father and an abusive brother as suffering from it
    • Her older brother beats her bloody every day as a form of amusement, then holds her head in the toilet until she apologizes for being a "whore".
    • n’t put down but dread seeing it end.
    • n’t write another book unless she has actually freed her mind.
    • n’t think the author is lying (as others claim)