Educated
Educated, by Tara Westover 
Blurb:Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn’t exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far. If there was still a way home.My ReviewIt took me a while to read this book, mostly because I've been really busy, but also because it's a book you can't help but stop and think about. It actually isn't a book I would have picked up myself, I not usually too keen on memoirs, but someone gave me this book and insisted that I read it and I loved it. It was shocking and amazingly well written and it's just astonishing to think that the author isn't actually that much older than me (nine years I believe which is nothing if you think about it) and yet reading about how she grew up felt like reading something set in a completely separate time.I just found this book mesmerising, awe inspiring and truly heartbreaking at time and I have nothing but respect for Tara Westover, not only for how she grew up and what she overcame, but for having the courage to tell her story. Really, all I can say about this book is, go read it! 
Blurb:Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn’t exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far. If there was still a way home.My ReviewIt took me a while to read this book, mostly because I've been really busy, but also because it's a book you can't help but stop and think about. It actually isn't a book I would have picked up myself, I not usually too keen on memoirs, but someone gave me this book and insisted that I read it and I loved it. It was shocking and amazingly well written and it's just astonishing to think that the author isn't actually that much older than me (nine years I believe which is nothing if you think about it) and yet reading about how she grew up felt like reading something set in a completely separate time.I just found this book mesmerising, awe inspiring and truly heartbreaking at time and I have nothing but respect for Tara Westover, not only for how she grew up and what she overcame, but for having the courage to tell her story. Really, all I can say about this book is, go read it!
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