By Tara Westover. Random House; 385 pages; $28. Hutchinson; [pounds sterling]14.99
A riveting memoir of a brutal upbringing. The author grew up in a normally opaque environment: a Mormon survivalist household in Idaho, where she endured abuse and received no education. Despite not setting foot in a classroom until she was 17, she made it to university and wound up with a PhD from Cambridge.
##Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds. 讀完中文版又找來英文原版讀,好像沒那麼驚艷瞭,比起英文書名,Flee as a bird to your mountain作為中文名,特彆值得高亮加粗下劃綫標記一下。
##自我的發現有時必須beyond love 愛是一迴事 接受是一迴事 選擇並堅持又是另一迴事
##自我的發現有時必須beyond love 愛是一迴事 接受是一迴事 選擇並堅持又是另一迴事
##過去和自我
##Flee as a bird to your mountain
讀完瞭,兩點感受:一是這傢人屢屢大難不死,真的讓人難以理解,特彆是Shawn和作者的爸爸,看來信仰真的讓人強大…但作者與Shawn之間,以及她和原生傢庭之間的結局讓人唏噓,作者還年輕,希望人生的最終會是Happy Ending吧。二是作者傢齣現三個博士,即便她的傢庭教育有反智傾嚮,但她父母肯定還是作對瞭一些事情,很好奇那到底是什麼。
##Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. 教育帶來的蛻變在於意識到不能放棄獨立意誌的一刹那。
##過去和自我
##讀的原版。看完中文版的書名翻譯解釋,依然不同意那個翻譯。我認為,直接翻譯為《受教瞭》都可以。