Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#FLDS
review
Melissa_graham
post image
Pickpick

⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

review
Amandakay
Escape | Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
Pickpick

What an amazing woman!!

review
ElizaMarie
Escape | Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
post image
Bailedbailed

I feel like I have either read this one (I looked and it doesn't look like I have) or just the story is too much on the forefront of my mind. I am gonna #DNF it - maybe I will pick It up later. but this is not the time.

review
KathyWheeler
post image
Pickpick

There are reviews doubting Musser, but if even half of what she talks about is true, the events are still horrific. Another reviewer complained that she used dialog when there‘s no way she could remember every talk verbatim. That‘s a ridiculous complaint as it‘s true of every memoir. Musser herself acknowledges that her memory is often different from others. As an account of FLDS life & Warren Jeffs‘ trial this is an important book.

britt_brooke Great review! I agree on this one‘s importance. 1y
29 likes1 stack add1 comment
blurb
KathyWheeler
post image

I‘m having an extremely hard time understanding WTAF is wrong with someone like Warren Jeffs and the people who continue to defend him, knowing the things he‘s done. 7:00pm seems to be a decent time to walk as it‘s only 90° instead of over 100° at that time. #audiowalk

Reggie Oof, he had some kind of mind control. I read the memoir written by his daughter and that was crazypants. Her son fell off a roof and until they got the ok from Jeff‘s, who was in jail, they couldn‘t call an ambulance or let her take him to the hospital. She waited a whole night and he finally called from jail. The little boy had a broken back. And this is on top of all the sex abuse and 72 wives. Crazy stuff. 1y
KathyWheeler @Reggie I‘ve read several memoirs by different people who‘ve left the FLDS, but not the one by his daughter. That is absolutely insane! 1y
21 likes2 comments
review
FantasyChick
post image
Pickpick

And finally, the last book for January!

I may have an unhealthy facination with the FLDS and Warren Jeffs but this one is a must read! You don't really learn much different in the way this branch was run but the way Rebecca Musser handled herself over time and the bravery she showed in speaking out is admirable. I hope this book was freeing and she continues to heal ❤️

#Bookspinbingo #Jumpstart2023 @Clwojick @Lizpixie @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2y
33 likes1 stack add1 comment
review
QBub
Stolen Innocence | Lisa Pulitzer, Elissa Wall
Pickpick

WOW!! This first person account of life in the FLDS was riveting from page 1. Her description of life in the FLDS, its control over its adherents, its decision that she should marry her first cousin despite her pleas to to prevent , and later to end, this forced marriage was disturbing and gut wrenching. Elissa‘s courage making a break from the FLDS and her testimony in the criminal case against a former church leader is admirable. Just WOW!