Fishing Florida Radio Show with BooDreaux, Steve Chapman and Captain Mike Ortego on Saturday Mornings 6-9am on 740am The Game
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Fishing Florida Radio Show with BooDreaux and Steve Chapman. Weekly fishing reports from around the...
ames_morgan (8 KP) rated Educated in Books
Jun 19, 2018
Tara Westover never set foot in a classroom until she was 17 years old. Raised by Mormon survivalists in the mountains of Idaho her life was incredibly different than anything I can even imagine. With a midwife/herbalist for a mother and a father who operated a junkyard and prepared for the end of the world and was obsessed with the Illuminati Tara was horribly unprepared for life as she set foot into the academic world.
With no one to make sure Tara and her brothers and sisters had an education or even basic healthcare Tara decided to educate herself. At the age of 17 she had never even heard of the Holocaust much to the shock and disbelief of her fellow students and professor. With determination and perseverance Tara went on from never being in a classroom to receiving a a PhD from Cambridge University.
All the while Tara still struggled with a sense of loyalty to her family yet a desire to recreate herself into something more.
This was an incredible journey and I thank Tara for sharing it with us!
The Scent of Rain
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The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
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