Danielle Parker’s Reviews > Educated > Status Update

I have a lot of thoughts about this book. Most of which need to be discussed with a professional therapist. So I will refrain. I will note that I am INCREDIBLY to learn that Gene/Val is still alive. Therefore, I must deduct a star.

I can not believe this… 🫩

IT’S HAPPENING!! I’m SO excitedddd!

This book is hard to read cause I woulda k*lled Shawn if I were Tara. And I’m deadass serious. Book would’ve been written AFTER I got out of jail. And all the “n-er” shit literally made my jaw drop and I had to stop reading for a bit. I can’t believe I hate HIM more than the dad. And and and everybody in the house acting like they don’t see/hear the abuse. I would’ve sprayed the ENTIRE BLOCK!

Maybe one day I will get out of this hole I’m in and care about things I used to find fun, like reading. Too dark? It’s a good book I swear, just in a reading slump.

Anyways, apparently I need one of the sons to ALSO die cause he’s a menace and incredibly abusive. Shocker😑. I’m constantly gagged by how good of a memoir it is cause I read some nonsense last year and vowed against them.

THEY GOT INTO AN ACCIDENT DOING THE SAME SHIT. I can’t. I can’t. I can’t. I can’t. “I’m not driving any faster than angels can fly”……….. this man constantly puts people’s lives in danger, takes ZERO accountability, and absolves himself from responsibility by calling on God. What a joke.

I need Gene to die. Surprisingly, the book is more interesting than I thought it would be. But it’s really gonna eat when Gene dies a slow painful death 😘 This man forced his daughter in the bin of a scrap truck, LIFTS THE BIN FULLY, she gets cut and falls TEN FEET, she narrowly misses being ground up like sausage, and his response is basically “damn that’s crazy, God will heal you.” HE NEEDS TO BE STONED!

The words sureeeee are smallll. I think this was the book selected for my class in university, so this book has been on my radar since then. I only read a single chapter before bed so nothing to say yet.