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#Saints #ARichLife

The route to this prompt is circuitous. This is a view from our apartment when we first moved to Salt Lake City in 2008, while I was reading Wallace Stegner's The Gathering of Zion about the founding of the LDS church and the Latter-day Saints' journey(s) to what would become Utah. I was not yet in my "photographing reads" era, but I associate this view with the book and with the term "saints."

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If you want to know more about the case of Ruby Franke than this is the memoir to read. From one of her daughters, the words of one of her victims which give more insight and respect to her siblings (the other victims) than any stranger from the outside could report.

Random book from our personal library.

Memoir by the co-founder of the famous Salt Lake City bookshop.

This is how I like my romances, light and sweet. Keep your dark, morally gray men and give me a good Golden Retriever male lead any day 😁. Cindy Steel is 2/2 for me. Faking Christmas wasn‘t life changing, but I sure remember feeling like I loved it while I was reading it. The cover had me a little worried, but Kiss Cam was feel good without the cheese.

I picked it up because I've never read a horror story set in the desert, and I was pleasantly surprised. This was a pretty effective, tight thriller. 270 pages flew by! I thought I guessed the twist pretty early, but started to doubt myself as the story continued, which matches the mentality of the characters, and that's pretty impressive. TR: Discussion of rape, though the event is not described.

My daughter and I binged Sister Wives last year when she and my granddaughter were living with us. It was a great nightly ritual for us to unwind together after busy days. Since Christine's book just came out, I figured I'd start at the beginning before reading it.

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

#genealogy #utah

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Susan Powell‘s story. This is very disturbing from the newlywed start. Creeps beget freaking creeps. There is ZERO doubt what happened, and yet, ZERO justice. These types of cases are utterly infuriating. Grabbed this after listening to a recent episode of Murder in America Podcast.

"Lily Wilder's boots crunched through smooth gravel as she made her way from the barn to the lodge, surveying her favorite place on earth."

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#FirstLineFridays (late)?

@TheAromaOfBooks, I have two library books to read!

Both of these books have no challenges already assigned to them, so these are two I'm hoping to get to in July anyway!

The Tursten book in the 3rd in a series. The tagged book is a nonfiction book which is sadly relevant today.

#BookspinBingo