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A Light in the Dark
A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy | Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Kathy Kleiner Rubin
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THE FIRST BOOK BY A CONFIRMED SURVIVOR OF TED BUNDY, AND THE ONLY MEMOIR TO CHALLENGE THE POPULAR NARRATIVE OF BUNDY AS A HANDSOME KILLER WHO CHARMED HIS VICTIMS INTO TRUSTING HIM In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. Bundy bashed me once in the head with the log and then attacked my roommate. He heard me moaning and came to finish me off. He never let his victims live. But he stopped suddenly when a bright light filled the room. He fled the sorority house and the light disappeared. Bundy wasn't my first brush with death, and he wasn't my last. I've long been a survivor. I was born into a Cuban American family in 1957 in Florida. I had a happy childhood until I received my first death sentence at the age of thirteen. Physicians weren't sure why I was always so exhausted and running a low-grade fever. The prognosis was grim after my left kidney started to fail. Then, a physician from Cuba saved my life with a surprise diagnosislupusand treatment plan: chemotherapy. I endured chemotherapy again in my early thirties when I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. This is my story of surviving three death sentences and finding love and happiness along the way. I was saved by a bright light, and I hope my story is one for people who are experiencing their own dark times. I am a victim, but I am also a survivor, and I want to speak up for all the women and girls whom Bundy murdered. He has become a legend, and our voices have been muted or ignored. It's time we were heard.
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Daisey
A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy | Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Kathy Kleiner Rubin
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After reading Bright Young Women, I‘m glad to have also read this memoir. This is a story of survival and strength from a woman who not only survived an attack by Ted Bundy but two life threatening medical diagnoses as well. Her story starts slowly and is sometimes repetitive, but it also makes important points and speaks for the women attacked and murdered.

#Memoir #Nonfiction #audiobook #LitsyBookClub

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Christinak
A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy | Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Kathy Kleiner Rubin
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This was unexpected. Surprisingly this was an empowering read I am glad I read this.
#morbidlycuriousbookclub

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BookwormAHN
A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy | Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Kathy Kleiner Rubin
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This is both the story of Ted Bundy and Kathy Kleiner Rubin, one of his victims from Chi Omega. It is a really good and eye-opening look at the horrors the Bundy caused and how he wasn't really as smart or charming as he's made out to be.

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DGRachel
A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy | Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Kathy Kleiner Rubin
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This is a compelling memoir from one of the survivors of Ted Bundy‘s attack at the Chi Omega sorority house at FSU. While there are needlessly repetitive elements, Rubin and her co-author do a great job of both centering the stories of the victims and pushing back on the myth of Bundy as charming and intelligent. This narrative does a disservice to the victims, as it implies they were naive, gullible, and responsible for their own murders. ⬇️

DGRachel Rubin paints a much different picture, and one that is, IMO, much easier to believe - he was a weird guy people found creepy, who attacked women he felt he could easily over power, often from behind, by knocking them unconscious or by attacking them in their beds, while they slept. 4mo
DGRachel The book ends with appendices that list the victims (deceased and the survivors) and brief biographies, so that we can honor them by remembering their stories instead of Bundy‘s. 4mo
Lcsmcat We lived for 17 years in the house in Salt Lake where he lived (in a basement apartment) when in law school. My daughter says she‘s going to title her memoir “Growing Up in Bundy‘s Basement.” Luckily he never brought his “work” home! 4mo
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DGRachel @Lcsmcat 😳😳 4mo
tpixie I‘m reading this in September for @litsybookclub in August we are reading 4mo
tpixie @Lcsmcat yikes! 😳 4mo
DGRachel @tpixie I saw this on Morbidly Curious Bookclub on IG. It‘s their July book. I think I may have to join their virtual group. Bright Young Women sounds really good, too. I‘m going to have to add it to my TBR. (edited) 4mo
tpixie @DGRachel ooh! I‘ll have to check our IG! 4mo
tpixie @DGRachel the newspaper article they had on their IG account was very interesting. ( hard to read! But good) 4mo
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