By Tara Westover. Random House; 385 pages; $28. Hutchinson; [pounds sterling]14.99
A riveting memoir of a brutal upbringing. The author grew up in a normally opaque environment: a Mormon survivalist household in Idaho, where she endured abuse and received no education. Despite not setting foot in a classroom until she was 17, she made it to university and wound up with a PhD from Cambridge.
##You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.
评分##ignorance
评分##Audible第三本。边听边看,竟然拖了仨月…
评分##自我的发现有时必须beyond love 爱是一回事 接受是一回事 选择并坚持又是另一回事
评分##The first English memoir that I have read. Things happened, I don’t know what caused the change, herself or miracle or both
评分##过去和自我
评分##情真意切
评分##蛮不错的,写的真是,喜欢这看似遗憾但却圆满的起承转合,也许这就是人生吧。There is always something holding us back.
评分##本来不是很想看的,因为从听说这本书开始就知道它大概是个什么样的故事,有什么样的反思,后来去躺尸的时候闲着没事就把房东这本书拿上了。跟我期待的差不多吧,就是更震惊一些。这本书不好写,宗教、政府、男女、精神疾病、家庭和爱的矛盾,一不小心就容易攻击某一个群体。但作者的感情真的非常细腻,对于别人行为的揣摩与粉饰,来来回回反反复复的坚持犹豫和崩溃,有许多点能relate,换做五年前看可能会哭,哎。作者有给她启蒙的哥哥,有照顾她的老师,在这些幸运之下作者的努力和反思也非常inspiring。最后作者说这对她来说是education,我个人觉得这只是一个非常pc的词,但是远远超越了教育。爱与被爱,自我意识与家庭束缚。如何平衡最后一点真的是千古难题。但是我非常相信的一句话,就是只有自己才能救自己
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