Well, there have been many I've loved, many I've not cared for, but until now, there've been only two memoirs I despised and could not believe I wasted my time finishing.
The first was Running with Scissors, and Fierce, the sequel to Change Me into Zeus's Daughter by Barbara Robinette Moss. Today I finished the very-well narrated "Educated" by Tara Westover, and it's been years since I've disliked a family--INCLUDING THE AUTHOR--so deeply. To give my reasons would put me in a horribly petty and unkind light, so I won't say much more. This is NOT The Glass Castle, these are just sick, twisted people who might like to blame God for their meanness rather than their own perverted selves.
She makes note in the beginning, that this book is not about Mormons, and religion, and she truly does stick to that by showing a heck of a lot of good people who are mormons. For that, I say, brava.
Ok, one of the main reasons I disliked this so much is that whenever offered help, she refused it. Her reasons? Because that's the way it is. God wants it that way because Daddy said so, so Mommy could ignore Brother breaking her wrist, twisting her limbs, convincing an 11-year-old who didn't really know the definition of the word, that she was a whore...ad in finitum.
The first was Running with Scissors, and Fierce, the sequel to Change Me into Zeus's Daughter by Barbara Robinette Moss. Today I finished the very-well narrated "Educated" by Tara Westover, and it's been years since I've disliked a family--INCLUDING THE AUTHOR--so deeply. To give my reasons would put me in a horribly petty and unkind light, so I won't say much more. This is NOT The Glass Castle, these are just sick, twisted people who might like to blame God for their meanness rather than their own perverted selves.
She makes note in the beginning, that this book is not about Mormons, and religion, and she truly does stick to that by showing a heck of a lot of good people who are mormons. For that, I say, brava.
Ok, one of the main reasons I disliked this so much is that whenever offered help, she refused it. Her reasons? Because that's the way it is. God wants it that way because Daddy said so, so Mommy could ignore Brother breaking her wrist, twisting her limbs, convincing an 11-year-old who didn't really know the definition of the word, that she was a whore...ad in finitum.
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