#im only 9 chapters in so maybe it turns around Whi knows.

[batmanego]

listening to educated by tara westover and it’s a fascinating book that paints a very real picture of the state of many “homeschooling” families as well as fundamentalist families. my one complaint at the moment is that you can, uh. really really really tell that she is a white mormon, based on the way she makes reference to native americans and regurgitates secondhand family stories about them without any kind of real analysis of the factual weight behind these stories (all while saying ‘indians’ too). i know the general narrative style is meant to keep one “in the moment” with her child self who did not and could not critically examine those stories, but it’s still somewhat unpleasant. otherwise a good book so far