Educated: A Memoir

Personally, this read was very impactful and inspiring. Learning about how someone who had it way worse than I did, at least on paper, was able to overcome all those obstacles was encouraging to say the least. I've been kind of a loner for some time and it's good to learn about someone who despite being on her own, ended up coming out of it with a victory and an amazing story to tell. 

You can tell the toll it takes on someone to be raised in such a manner. In a very personal manner, this book increased my despise for religion when it is imposed and when there seems to be no cure to the ignorance that certain precepts of it imply. I also loved the way the topic of family is portrayed and could not agree more with the fact that we sanctify it and put it on a pedestal. That should not be the case.

Seek knowledge and dispose of everything and everyone who is setting you back, regardless of who they are and the title they possess in your life.