Episode · The Book Review · 2018-04-06
Tara Westover on The Book Review: books mentioned
Tara Westover on 'Educated'
Gilbert Cruz discussed Educated by Tara Westover, Movie Nights with the Reagans by Mark Weinberg, and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Pamela Paul discussed The recovering by Leslie Jamison and Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad. Dwight Garner discussed The Empathy Exams Essays by Leslie Jamison and others, Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp, and The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Educated
Educated by Tara Westover is a bestselling memoir that follows the author's remarkable journey growing up in a strict and isolated survivalist family in rural Idaho before eventually escaping to pursue a PhD from Cambridge University.
Discussed“Tara Westover joins us to talk about her bestselling Memoir educated”
Where to get it
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Movie Nights with the Reagans
Discussed“president Mark Weinberg will be here to discuss his new book movie Nights with the Reagans plus our critics Dwight Garner”
Where to get it
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a powerful memoir detailing the author's unconventional, nomadic upbringing by eccentric and profoundly dysfunctional parents.
Discussed“I mean in you know Janette Wall's a Glass Castle for example”
Where to get it
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The Empathy Exams Essays
The Empathy Exams Essays is a collection of deeply introspective essays by Leslie Jamison that explores physical and emotional pain.
Discussed“I mean she's well known for her book The empathy exams a book of essays that I really really loved”
Where to get it
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Drinking: A Love Story
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp is a deeply personal memoir that chronicles the author's complex, long-term functional alcoholism and her eventual journey toward recovery, capturing the psychological seduction and eventual devastation of substance abuse.
Discussed“cuz my my favorite one of these like drunk Memoirs is is drinking a love story”
Where to get it
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Two Sisters
Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad is a journalistic account examining two Norwegian sisters who left their home to join ISIS in Syria and their desperate father's attempts to bring them back.
Discussed“I had some of these sorts of feelings to so I reviewed AZN SAR stads Book Two Sisters which I was so disappointed by”
Where to get it
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The Bookseller of Kabul
Discussed“so one thing I did touch on in an earlier draft over long unnecessarily over long draft was the legal trouble she'd gotten into with a previous book the book seller of Kabul where she'd gone and spent many years living with a family”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Tara westover's new book is called Educated a memoir”
“he is the author of a new book movie Nights with the Reagans in Memoir”
“Mark Weinberg is the author of movie Nights with the Reagans a memoir”
“who is a an English Professor who also wrote a book about Charlie Chan”
“one of us which I think Dwight reviewed her first book was her previous book I her previous book thank you”
“and Eric scha reviewed in the book review and he said it's better than In Cold Blood which I don't know if I go that far”