Anyone else just finished the book but are just trying to recollect your thoughts so you are just searching up talks shows with Tara

@LesyaSachenko

4 жыл бұрын

Angelo Bartolome yep

@nachuandu9307

4 жыл бұрын

yep thats me

@brendamoraa1802

4 жыл бұрын

Angelo Bartolome i am almost finishing the book but am scouring the internet for the talkshows she is in to get more perspective and also put a name to a face

@bronwynnharrison4113

4 жыл бұрын

i literally just finished it a couple minutes ago😩😩

@amo7588

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!!!

Just finished her book. I'm in shock she never got a education and got into Cambridge. Yet I'm here struggling to finish college. Such inspiration.

@WillChil466

4 жыл бұрын

She is veRy bright.

@agathapoirot5373

4 жыл бұрын

@@WillChil466 Yes. I was so impressed how she studied math, algebra etc.

@zarulluraz7033

4 жыл бұрын

that situation make her a tough fighter!

@abdulmalikaltaiyeb4850

4 жыл бұрын

Gaby Rivas well most of the story was not true, the way she talked about the accidents and her parents makes no sense

@adinailiescu1091

4 жыл бұрын

Abdulmalik Altaiyeb i think that’s the whole idea, that it just didn’t make much sense

Great book! More authors, Ellen... more authors!!! Some of us still read and would love to see authors of books we love on your show!! -- on ANY talk show!! Authors NEVER get the attention they deserve! Promote reading!

@angiebell3123

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. Less vapid Kardashians and more thoughtful content please.

@scorpions0ul

5 жыл бұрын

You said it sister! Hallelujah

@ansarisarah7355

5 жыл бұрын

Yessss.... I'm not a bookworm I'm a BOOKDRAGON n I would love to see amazin authors on shows!!

@rubyrose2522

5 жыл бұрын

@@ansarisarah7355 love that 📚📚📚

@sophiarodriguez3706

5 жыл бұрын

Ned Joseph now “bookdragon” is part of my lexicon...thank you!

To any abuse survivors out there who are feeling a little invalidated... It is NOT your resposibility to keep your abusive family together. You are not resposible for healing your abusers, you're responsible for healing yourself. Well-meaning people may praise you for 'keeping your family together,' but if you choose not to have contact with your family, that is completely vaild. I love you and you're a good person ❤

@patchouleigh_

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your words of healing , Colette.

@NEssaZai

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you !! Yes exactly 🧡 I’m learning this. It’s tough, but in the process. Your words gave me much comfort.

@ginofever8233

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@katiem6620

5 жыл бұрын

Very well said Colette. I agree completely.

@HSfox

5 жыл бұрын

🥺😭

I'm a guy who is leaving a Mennonite cult. This book has helped me to have clarity on what my obligations to my family are and are not.

@pasapdub

4 жыл бұрын

BEST OF LUCK TO YOU!

@derrickk773

4 жыл бұрын

@@pasapdub Thank You

@lovely-mk4rt

4 жыл бұрын

My heart is with you 🕊.

@kasiajones

4 жыл бұрын

All the best to you, I hope you've done it by now

@hm2011100

4 жыл бұрын

Your courage is inspiring - I hope you are doing well 🥰

For someone who has been through so much she doesn’t talk poorly of her parents on the show! If anyone who deserves to speak ill of their family it’s her and yet she doesn’t.. that’s incredible, she’s incredible!

@rayrei8620

3 жыл бұрын

Speaking as a child of horrendous abuse myself, the more you grow up and delve into psychology, the more you realize how deeply disturbed and mentally unstable your parents were along with how some of them were raised to be this way themselves. No one is immune to mental illness, not even our parents. While I will never forgive the abuse done to me, I understand the working of my mother's mind a lot better than I used to. I can move past it.

I love how peaceful and confident she is.

@naturefleur2062

5 жыл бұрын

romie romeissa yeah, that’s the “gift” of trauma.

@blove142

5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps her story is not an indictment of home education but a testament to it. Her parents with all their faults, taught her to think independently and to learn independently, instead of how to pass tests, and look at the results.

@hannahtriz

5 жыл бұрын

​@@blove142 Have you read her book? Or listened to the audio book?

@blove142

5 жыл бұрын

@@hannahtriz not yet, its on my summer list.

@hannahtriz

5 жыл бұрын

@@blove142 You may want to read it before you make a statement that her parents taught her how to learn and think independently.

after reading this memoir then watching this interview, she barely even scrapes the surface of this family, the hardships she went through and how hard she had to work in university to even get through each week!!! she’s so brilliant and spectacular, yet so humble about it. lovely woman

7 children...4 never went to school or ever got a GED. 3 went to college and achieved to the level of PHD

@bigsiskrishere

4 жыл бұрын

Julie Greene I believe 2 of those three that got college degrees were also part of the 4 that never went to school or received a GED.

@thumpermater5550

4 жыл бұрын

And they run a million dollar company.

@cindyoswin9436

4 жыл бұрын

I believe they got genes of talents, but the parents made their whole life a disaster.

@cindyoswin9436

4 жыл бұрын

I believe they got genes of talents, but the parents made their whole life a disaster.

@Kristy_not_kristine

3 жыл бұрын

This is a good example of an untruth in this book. Read Educating.

I just finished the book at 4 am after starting the book 3 days ago. Tara Westover needs a big hug and a pat on the back for all that she has accomplished and been through. I would also like to thank her three brothers Tyler, Tony, and Richard for helping her with this book and for being there for her when everyone else in her family wasn’t.

@pantalones3557

Жыл бұрын

Her aunts Angie & Debbie are both lovely for being supportive family as well!!

I grew up in a cult so I really relate to this. Especially what she said about her parents loving her, they just really had strong beliefs that they thought was right for their children.

@ahmedbenhariz8694

5 жыл бұрын

Which cult and where quite interesting if you can provide more detail?

@DelphiaBlize

5 жыл бұрын

that sounded like someone who couldn't quite face the fact that there was no love for her at all. which is a harrowing thing to face. i don't think her parents had/have the capacity to love anyone.

@derrickk773

5 жыл бұрын

@@DelphiaBlize I too grew up in a cult. A Mennonite church specifically. Leaving means you can never again eat at the same table with your family.

@LoveJoyPeace4612

4 жыл бұрын

@@derrickk773 I didn't know the Mennonites did that. Jehovah's Witnesses are the same. You are shunned if you leave.

@jennytaylor3203

3 жыл бұрын

It's important to note that her family was nothing like the average LDS family. She makes that clear in many interviews.

i'm a sixth grader, and this book was so eye opening to me

@deletedleaf2688

5 жыл бұрын

You must be an excellent reader 👍

@glennanderson4554

5 жыл бұрын

keep reading as much as you can. It will take you far in life.

@stefani.m.1987

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent!!!!

@Sandyyyyyyyyyy

4 жыл бұрын

I recommend you come back to this book in about 10 years. The life experience you gain in those 10 years will allow you to pick up more of the nuance in the book and get more out of it. I’m in my early 30s and I plan to do the same.

@WillChil466

4 жыл бұрын

Oh Sugar, u should not be reading adult stuff. Stick to Jr. Lit.

That's a lot of strength to come out of that, not only alive but thriving in life. Amazing woman.

I just finished reading Educated last night. And woah. One of the best memoir I've ever read. It's speaks loud of perseverance and courage. Her life story is not like any other, and she told it in the most beautiful and genuine way. I highly recommend this book to everyone. There is so much to applaud about Tara Westover, but to me the most admirable thing she'd done was choosing to accept the truth, no matter how hard it is.

Tara was the commencement speaker at my daughter's graduation from Northeastern University (Boston) in 2019. She did a great job speaking (she was very down-to-earth and relatable) and I bought her book not long after.

Just finished her book for a college assignment! Her story is so shocking that I had to keep reminding myself it’s not fiction! Incredible and Inspirational!

@thumpermater5550

4 жыл бұрын

You ought to check into the fiction part of it.

@lotusgrl444

4 жыл бұрын

@@thumpermater5550 😂😂 I havent read the book itself but the reviews of people that doubt how truly off the grid they were and she apparently leaves a lot of holes as far as how her parents paid for the things when they broke down, I think it was a tractor...Im interested in reading the book but I think one thing we should remember of memoirs is that there still has to be an element of fiction to it

The book is just wow!!!! Must be made into a movie!

@lilliangraham9850

5 жыл бұрын

hey , becareful what you put out into the universe ,that might just happen

@morebooks9476

5 жыл бұрын

Well I hope it will be better than Glass Castle and just as good or better than Captain Fantastic!!

@Vampire_elise

5 жыл бұрын

Have fun waiting cuz it'll never happen

@bmagg2564

5 жыл бұрын

@@Vampire_elise who knows...Ellen might do it, if she liked it so much

@bmagg2564

5 жыл бұрын

@@lilliangraham9850 maybe just like this girl wanted to go to college 🙂

I just finished this book last night in my room, the book name "Educated" is translated into "你当像鸟飞往你的山" (You should fly to your mountain like a bird) in China. I can't imagine what the author went through and finally achieved such an achievement, really admire her.

I read her book and admire her courage and fortitude. She is incredibly gifted and would have done well in any profession. She was lucky to find mentors that helped her to get money for her education. I cannot imagine to be in her shoes.

Reading this book had me glimpses of the Glass Castle.

@morgantilstra3175

5 жыл бұрын

Same! That is also a fabulous book

@nathanhanson5324

5 жыл бұрын

I thought of the Glass Castle too, and also Hillbilly Elegy a little bit.

@heatherrose3863

5 жыл бұрын

I didn’t read this yet but sounds similar!

@tarafela-durotoye2383

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly ..esp as a lot of people didn’t believe her story .a lot of people didn’t believe that this could happen in the US.

@Charlie96204

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

her story resonates me so much, i never thought i could find someone out there that lived a life similar to as i did. i cannot begin to say how much this book has done for me, i will always treasure it

@AlvaInTheWorld

3 жыл бұрын

good luck to you! Be strong, make yourself a good life! ❤️

The book is phenomenal. This isn't simply because of the horrifically gripping story but Dr. Westover's courage and grace.

Brave young amazing woman. I do hope the future is good for her. I could not put the book down reading amongst my tears.

I read this last year and it goes down as one of the most amazing and inspiring memoirs I have ever read. I was really happy to see Tara on Ellen! More authors, Ellen!

This is the best book I’ve read in a long time. I highly recommend this book to EVERYONE!!!! extremely well written.

I just recently read this and it was SO good! I highly recommend it, it’s an unbelievable story.

I just read Educated this week. It was amazing! One of the best books I have ever read.

LOVE! love this book, Love Tara, love Ellen for having her on the show...love!

very thought provoking, a must read for anyone who grew up in an abusive family.

she is such an inspiration. i actually had to read educated for a college class. even though i had a full education and got into a good college i found myself relating to her a lot, especially how much she talks about feeling like she doesn’t belong in a college setting. i often feel this way too and it was such a wonderful feeling knowing that someone who feels like me got an amazing education from world class schools. thank you tara you are wonderful!

just finished her memoir it was breath-taking, heart-breaking and predominately it was the most inspirational text I had ever read.

Loved this book! One of the best ones.

Favorite read of 2019. thanks for sharing your story Tara, this book truly enlightens you in the most painful and incredible way.

I love Ellen! This is a book I have to read. Thank you Tara for being so brave!

Definitely recommend this book! Due to a similar upbringing, my art teacher recommended this book to me.

I love this book! Thanks Tara for sharing your life with us! Much love to you.

Excellent book and I too am proud of this strong, curious woman that overcame a compelling complicated life to thrive and live her life to the fullest. 🕊.

Just finishing the book and I’m amazing how she put these memoir all together with such details. ❤

I recently finished Ms. Westover's book, and the writing is masterfully eloquent. I commend her strength of character in such a difficult upbringing. I highly recommend this work.

Ellen, the way you describe how you felt reading the book sums it up perfectly with how it impacted me as well. And the pride you feel for Tara’s accomplishments! Thank you for sharing your story Tara!

I'm almost finished with her book and I wish I had enough time in the day to finish it all at once. The interview doesn't do the book justice. It's an excellent, must read book!

One of the best books i’ve ever read. I couldn’t put it down

"you can call this selfhood many things. Transformation Metamorphosis Falsity Betrayal I call it an education"

I'm from Russia and I read this book. It's really amazing. I'm so happy and proud of Tara.

Educated is an amazing book!

I am almost through with the book, and, "through" is a wrong word...i am finishing this powerful book on one breath. You are very brave! Thank you so much for sharing your story!

I think she is where she is now because of the way she was raised. And of course of the perseverance and curiosity that lives in her. Her story is very inspiring. I just finished her book.

Best book I've ever read, what an amazing story

I'm (South) Korean. In my opinion, She has great resilience !

Yes, I highly recommend this book---very painful to read but ultimately inspiring and instructive.

I like that Ellen is tackling deeper topics with guests other than Hollywood stars. I can tell she was getting bored with her usual glamorous guests.

@pearlyseine8957

4 жыл бұрын

Right. Unlike guessing the name of the nth baby of some celebrity.

@lotusgrl444

4 жыл бұрын

Well she IS getting quite the meanie reputation

I’m reading her book now. Can’t put it down. Mind blowing.

When I was in a Freshman Seminar class at Idaho State University in 2001, the instructor referenced the Holocaust. There were twenty-two students in the class, and I was the only one who HAD heard of it. The instructor was just staggered (me, too).

@marahaquala1686

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, who raised those kids ?

@ashleycharmac

4 жыл бұрын

Marah* aquala Mormons.

@amydaves1307

3 жыл бұрын

@@ashleycharmac Mormons support public education. Its Idaho.

I just finished reading the book and it brings me great joy that I could see her so alive in this video. I'm so proud of her and wishing her the best

She is awesome very good thank you for sharing your beautiful story thanks

Love this book!! Such a phenomenal story!

@MrNikkimaxine

5 жыл бұрын

sariahseb Yep so Mia story long story short

Tara is so resilient and strong. Such a good book. She’s also a beautiful singer, there’s a clip of her singing a Mormon hymn on KZread and she sounds like an angel.

@coultergill7728

4 жыл бұрын

almostfamous99 she originally wanted to lead her Idaho ward choir

with a couple of thanks to the author and more grace of experience

Will they ever make a movie out of this bestselling story? I think a lot of people would want to watch it...including me. The story is unorthodox and beautiful, well done Tara.

tara's book was so good and i just want MORE, i love her story!

Reading her book in school now, powerful stuff.

It's a miracle that they're alive! Wow!

Three years too late. After finishing her memoir last night, I’m so glad to see her looking so happy, healthy, and confident in these talk shows and interviews. 🥺🤍

The book has me shook. Brilliant how she understood the differences between her and her family as her world view change and kept her well being as well as loving towards her family intact. It would be much easier to be bitter but she strived, struggled and chose empathy, love and courage. Such an inspiration!

Wow I just finished this book- I am in shock- it’s amazing and so interesting

Just finished the incredibly read audiobook version this morning driving to work. One of the most powerful, compelling, personally uplifting books I have found in years. Read it. It will change your life. all of us believe that we are less than whole and all of us need this book.

Love Ellen's interviews. She has a lot more relaxed style of interviewing, which makes it more enjoyable and interesting. Amazing story.

I’m reading 📖 it at the moment. I gave about 2 chapters left. I didn’t want to put the book 📖 down. OMG 😮 it’s beyond profounding. She’s an awesome and super strong lady! I’m recommending her book to my friends and family!📚

This book was incredible!

So well written!!! I love this book!!!

I listened to the audiobook and the stuff she went through, she is such a survivor

Just finished this book and it is a " must read".

I am proud of you Tara. I read ur book and i cried. Wonderful women

I had to take a creative nonfiction class in college and my professor had us read this book, which was her memoir, and it’s one of those rare instances where I absolutely enjoyed an assigned reading in class

Such an amazing book! Read it a bit ago and fell in love

I'm in 9th grade and for me, out of many books i've read, this book is the best one. Highly recommend it

It’s a heartbreaking and must read story! Great book

SO PROUD of this woman! 👏🏼

The educated was one of my favorites I ever read. At the time of reading this book, I was imagining things happened in the book. Also, reminds me that the childhood I had been maintained 20 years ago.

I just finished her book "Educated" and WOW is she incredible.

someone needs to press charges against the brother before he kills someone. he made his bed, he can lie in it.

@i2pjd6hRw5P

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing at times. He seems like a genuinely horrible human being. But it was the fault of his upbringing and could be reasonably blamed on his father. So I don't know. It's so complicated.

@25136MLP

4 жыл бұрын

@@thumpermater5550 the book was fact checked by a professional

@cindyoswin9436

4 жыл бұрын

The brother sort of taking insulting and controlling others as a pleasure. Mental hospital in a prison should be his place to live. But the father is the very resource of all these tragedy. Without a father like that, there wouldn't be a 'Shawn' like this.

@jillyburt

4 жыл бұрын

The brother killed his German Shepherd. Cruel and unforgivable.

@superstarwhimsy

3 жыл бұрын

The parents, especially the dad, certainly contributed to the brother's emotional makeup, but they had other sons who didn't turn out so diabolical. This son is responsible for his actions, even if he was raised in an abusive environment. I hope CPS is getting involved now. I am concerned about his wife and children.

It boils down to ignorance. Ignorance is one of the highest forms of sickness.

@tammyevans5799

5 жыл бұрын

Amen !

@DelphiaBlize

5 жыл бұрын

in this case willful ignorance though. i think it boils down to her father's need to control and abusiveness, which poisoned his entire family. he removed them from everything, and the mother enabled it.

@agathapoirot5373

4 жыл бұрын

@@DelphiaBlize Absolutely agree. The father was controlling and cruel and the mother an enabler: a weak woman whose priority was to please her man instead of protecting her children.

@nek2327

4 жыл бұрын

it's not ignorance, it's simply a way or a lifestyle they live by. No need to criticize their way of living.

@toshitroyer5595

3 жыл бұрын

@@nek2327 ummmm...it was ignorance. The father caused so much damage to the family and trauma, and the mother just enabled it as others said. Not treating major injuries in a car crash or a pipe through the leg or an abusive brother with things other than herbs and sun is damaging...and the dad was also just emotionally abusive

I just finished the audiobook and I loved it! ❤

The book is amazing. Unfortunately I have not finished reading it. So I'm going to wait to watch this interview.

I’m almost finished with the book. It made me cry. It’s one of the greatest books I’ve ever read.

Wow. Incredible!!

I will join Ellen's comment, I don't know you either, but I can relate to your story, I am proud of you as well...well done young lady.

I'm so moved by this book and by Tara that I also recommend it to all my friends. I think people with childhood trauma would really appreciate this book. But also just young people, because let's admit it, all of us are one way or another, lost in adolescence. And the difficulties one encounter when growing up, the mentality of a family obligation, all of it is exposed and talked about without a lie. That's what so powerful about this story!

It's amazing she survived

She's my hero.

Amazing story✨

Tara is amazing and has achieved incredible things inspirational lady

Such a great book!

I love this book ! Tara you are amazing!

Incredible read! We have alot of homeschooled children here in Montana and I have always wondered what happens on the farms miles away from town. This was certainly a read I couldn't put down and recommend for any reading club.

@rondeaufamily6617

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't take this extreme case for an example of what the average homeschool family is like...

Bless her💖🙏💪

I would be a nervous wreck on Ellen but this girl is so incredibly poised 💓 what an awesome story!

I am halfway through the book. It's amazing

Love how she can talk about her past not with anger but trying to see her parents pov.

I found her family’s company on Facebook and it’s really interesting to see how they handle the book coming out. Fascinating story.

@kace9601

4 жыл бұрын

Megan Deppe what is it

@agathapoirot5373

4 жыл бұрын

Denial seems to be her family's M.O. They are sick people.