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by Tara Westover, 2018
Who uses, recommends or left Educated, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
2 people
Educated is an amazing story, and I get why it’s spent so much time on the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
Gates's 2018 holiday reading list entry on Tara Westover's memoir.
2018-12-03·gatesnotes.com ↗
Don’t get me wrong, it’s very good and a great story. But much like Hillbilly Elegy a few years ago, I was left wondering, “What’s everyone going on about?”
Manson’s post reviewing 114 books he had read in recent years, one paragraph each; the book links are Amazon affiliate links (tag=entsblo-20).
2021-03-01·markmanson.net ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.