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I Believe Her

October 14, 2018 by ElCicco 4 Comments

#cbr10bingo Listicles  Educated has been on the New York Times Combined Print and E-book Nonfiction Best Seller list for over 33 weeks. It is also one of Time Magazine’s Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far Educated: A Memoir is Tara Westover’s riveting account of how she went from growing up home schooled in a survivalist family in Idaho to PhD student of History at Cambridge. Westover is the youngest of seven children raised by parents whose goal was to live “off the grid” and who […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #CBR10, #memoir, cbr10bingo, Educated: A Memoir, ElCicco, listicles, Non-Fiction, ReadWomen, Tara Westover

ElCicco's CBR10 Review No:41 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #CBR10, #memoir, cbr10bingo, Educated: A Memoir, ElCicco, listicles, Non-Fiction, ReadWomen, Tara Westover ·
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Too easily the future of “school choice”

June 13, 2018 by lowercasesee 1 Comment

This book should terrify and infuriate everyone who reads it because you know what? At the rate our local, state, and federal governments are defunding public education and deregulating what’s counts as “school choice”, this kind of child abuse will be allowed to proliferate instead of be curbed. And I say child abuse before I even get to the physical and emotional abuse in this book – child abuse as in denying your kid access to a real education. We’ve found one of my high […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Tara Westover

lowercasesee's CBR10 Review No:66 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Tara Westover ·
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