• Reviews around memoir (4.33 of 5)

    Educated: A Memoir

    • Truly an inspirational memoir providing the reader to never give up while trudging the journey of life
    • I found Educated to be an exceptionally well written memoir.
    • A Memoir is a most beautifully written non-fiction about the author's life living in rural Idaho
    • I would mislead you to say I enjoyed this memoir
    • A beautiful memoir about the author’s struggle to overcome her past to find who she was meant to become
    • Best memoir I’ve read in years
    • I would highly recommend this memoir
    • I had just read Where the Crawdads Sing, and it is a really great memoir.
    • This memoir is truly inspiring
    • A phenomenal memoir about a Mormon family fraught with Survivalist anti-government beliefs and their daughter who fights for an education
    • Exceptional memoir, exceptional author.
    • I usually don't like memoirs; however this is a story we need to hear.
    • This was a crazy, intense memoir
    • A very sad, disturbing memoir, but i did enjoy it.
    • Extremely powerful memoir
    • My book club read this memoir together, and we all loved it, felt it, cried over it, and thought deeply about it
    • A Memoir is both heartbreaking and heartwarming.
    • If this memoir had been fiction, I would not have believed it.
    • I would say this is my favorite memoir of all time.
    • An amazing memoir, enthralling, insightful, and so well written
    • This is a brave memoir written by Tara Westover
    • This was an amazing memoir from a young woman who is finding success in life after a harrowing and unusual childhood, where she was raised in a most nontraditional manner and environment.
    • schizophrenia and bipolarism—the results are disastrous for the family members as is well shown in this excellent memoir.
    • WestoverI read that Educated is a memoir about the author’s experience with abuse within her family
    • This is, however, a well written memoir, places you in her life very vividly, shows how strong family bonds can be, reveals the lives of survivalist, touches on mental illness and most significantly, education.
    • I really enjoyed this memoir
    • Amazing unflinching memoir.
    • "Educated: A Memoir" is a real page turner
    • Excellent memoir of a very different type of family and the author's early life as she struggles to reconcile her domineering parents with her desire to become an educated woman.
    • It’s hard to believe that someone that had no formal or informal middle or high school education can become a PhD and write this brilliant memoir
    • Very good read if you like memoirs.
    • But she concludes her brilliant memoir describing a new self
    • Highly recommend this memoir, although it has a decent amount of rather explicit gore, so if you’re someone who has a hard time handling that stuff it might not be a great book for you.
    • An amazing memoir of a girls struggle to overcome a dysfunctional family and find her self against a background of family control and violence
    • Educated is an excellent memoir
    • One of the best memoirs I've ever read
    • In addition to showing how the human spirit can survive and prosper in the midst of adversity, I think this memoir can serve as an inspiration for those who see their plight as hopeless
    • Very powerful memoir
    • A very, very good memoir
    • I really enjoyed reading this Memoir, but found the parents so other-worldly, that it was very upsetting to me as a reader.
    • A Memoir is both heartbreaking and heartwarming.
    • This is an amazing memoir in that this happened in the recent past.
    • Tara Westover wrote an amazing and powerful memoir
    • This memoir is powerful
    • Nonetheless, I highly recommend this universally beloved and morbidly fascinating memoir.
    • This was an amazing memoir.
    • This book was an honest, well-written memoir that was insightful and incredible
    • I love autobiographies and memoirs, so this was a no brainer for me.
    • Very inspiring memoir
    • Two things stuck with me after finishing this intense memoir
    • It is a well written memoir that draws the reader in while describing a childhood that causes one to wonder how a child survived it, let alone an entire family of children.
    • I've read over a dozen popular memoirs lately and this just might be the best.
    • This was an amazing memoir by a young woman full of grit and compassion and that lovely common sense that is natural genius
    • Excellent memoir
    • Fabulous memoir
    • Eye opening look into a different upbringing and experience and amazing memoir
    • Loved this memoir
    • Educated is an incredible memoir of Tara Westover's life - as a reader I couldn't help but keep turning the pages and finished it record time
    • A poignant memoir of a young woman coming to grips with her youth in a disfunctional LDS family and pursuing an education at great emotional cost and personal sacrifice.
    • That's obviously not the case, especially with Tara Westover's memoir, Educated
    • This is an excellent memoir!
    • I feel that this memoir is still struggling with its issues and doesn’t feel as far along in the recovery process as Heavy does, but I still found it honest and beautiful in its prose
    • Great memoir
    • Great memoir, very riveting
    • Great memoir
    • A very inspiring and well written memoir of a woman who in spite of all the struggles she went thru, could find happiness and fulfillment as an adult.
    • Well written, honest memoir.
    • Such a powerful memoir of self-recovery
    • Awesome memoir beautifully written.
    • This memoir was hard to put down due to the interesting story of a young girl
    • I enjoyed Tara’s memoir very much
    • This book was totally engaging and although a memoir read like a novel.
    • i would give it NO STARS if i could.... a total SMH book....i read and loved The Glass Castle more than once and that's a perfect example of an excellent memoir ----
    • Very well written memoir.
    • This was a well-written memoir.
    • Imagine a dystopian Little House on the Prairie with some gothic horror thrown in and you've barely scratched the surface of this extraordinary memoir
    • I enjoy memoirs but this one is told too much from the head
    • A well written memoir yet left me feeling like I had PTSD myself
    • This memoir is so unbelievable, someone growing up unable to read or write who goes on to get a PHD is very unusual,It shows that intelligence is innate,
    • One of the best memoirs and experiences I've ever had the pleasure of reading about
    • Interesting and unique memoir
    • Excellent memoir!
    • I normally always read fiction, but this memoir is fantastic
    • Just an amazingly well written and unbelievable memoir, recommended read!
    • The memoir is excellent.
    • An amazing memoir
    • It's as thrilling as fiction while actually being an honest memoir/autobiography from an author who made the amazing journey from unimaginable abuse and dysfunction to the highest levels of education and life in society.
    • Very uplifting memoir about a really dysfunctional family.
    • I love memoirs and this one is no exception.
    • This memoir was impossible to put down as the reader is able to get sucked into the story right from the beginning
    • Thanks for a wonderful memoir.
    • What an amazing memoir of Tara’s life and transformation
    • "Educated: A Memoir" was our book club book this month.
    • Very interesting and well written memoir
    • For anyone curious about the makings of a pitch perfect memoir, read this
    • What I expect in the best memoirs is some sort of philosophic insight into the meaning of the experience as well as some sort of emotional coloring to move the insight along.
    • Such a fascinating, inspiring memoir
    • Amazing memoir
    • A powerful, riveting memoir!More palpable than The Glass Castle and Hillbilly Elegy
    • Powerful story, incredible memoir
    • A very powerful memoir.
    • I highly recommend this memoir to ANYONE who is able to read it
    • This memoir made me sad and intrigued at the same time
    • Overall, a great, captivating memoir.
    • This is a remarkable memoir, told with honesty and simple truth
    • A phenomenal memoir, critique, collage.
    • I love memoir but not all are as well done as this one