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This book blew me away. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Westover's memoir is amazing and I highly recommend it. What does it mean to be educated?
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This book is fascinating! It is both intriguing and heart-wrenching and reminds me of Glass Castle. Like Jeanette Wallis, she was allowed to do very dangerous things. He dad owned a junkyard and she’d work with very heavy equipment without safety precautions. I belong to the same church that her family attended, referred to in the book as “Mormonism”. The teachings she grew up with are a far cry from the actual doctrine, because her father took everything to the extreme and made up some things e
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This woman is amazing. She has achieved so much despite the obstacles placed in her path (mostly in the form of her very unconventional father, abetted by her mother and some of her siblings. She is clearly brilliant and owes much of her awesome education to her own determination to succeed against odds most people would never have dreamed possible.
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