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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy | Tia Levings

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Tia Levings is an amazing, strong, powerful, courageous woman who went down a very dark road, all in the name of doing the right thing and being a good person. I once found myself inching down that road, but luckily turned back before I got anywhere near as far as she did. The moment she finally listens to and trusts her intuition is glorious!
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GingerAntics Her heartbreaks throughout are gut wrenching. I felt like I was in every moment with her, viewing an alternate life I could have had. This is such an important book, especially right now, with this being forced on more and more Americans. We must be aware of what is really being pushed, so that we may never forget how vital it is to keep pushing back. 8h

GingerAntics #TiaLevings #TheWellTrainedWife #HighControlReligiousGroups #Cult #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor 8h

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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy | Tia Levings

I‘m crying!
#TiaLevings #TheWellTrainedWife #HighControlReligiousGroups #Cult #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

TheBookHippie I used about four boxes of Kleenex boxes. 10h

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie the sleeve of my shirt may never be the same again! 9h

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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy | Tia Levings

WHAT?! THE?! F🤬K?!

Allan is f🤬ked up! Bro needs a life or a hobby, or a boyfriend.

#TiaLevings #TheWellTrainedWife #HighControlReligiousGroups #Cult #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

Prairiegirl_reading And definitely a new church. 9h

GingerAntics @Prairiegirl_reading he could be in a locked ward these days 9h

Prairiegirl_reading This is true. I hadn‘t given him a second thought until just now. I have a hard time with forgiveness and I think I tend to write off religious extremists like this guy. I have nothing in my heart for them. I hope he is locked up on second thought. 9h

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GingerAntics @Prairiegirl_reading apparently he‘s remarried?! 9h

Prairiegirl_reading @GingerAntics yikes 😬 8h

GingerAntics @Prairiegirl_reading I know! I‘m hoping he got psychiatric help after they put him on that 72 hour hold and he ended up in for a week! 8h

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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy | Tia Levings

I‘m not sure I‘m ready for this, but it‘s better than even more little league World Series for the rest of my life, so here goes nothing.
#TiaLevings #TheWellTrainedWife #HighControlReligiousGroups #Cult #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

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Uncultured: A Memoir | Daniella Mestyanek Young

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This memoir is heartbreaking and beautiful. This is such an important book for all Americans right now. It offers food for thought and important truths we all need to spend time wrestling with. We must witness the abuse, coercion, and harm in the past in order to prevent building the cults of the future. The only ones against this are the world-be leaders of those cults, so start reading and never stop.

GingerAntics #DaniellaMestyanekYoung #Uncultured #audiobook #readbytheauthor 3w

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Uncultured: A Memoir | Daniella Mestyanek Young

If you know knitting.cult.lady on YouTube, you know why I‘m so excited to read this. If you don‘t, go to YouTube immediately and check her out! Yes, she knits in all of her videos. It‘s mesmerising!
#DaniellaMestyanekYoung #Uncultured #audiobook #readbytheauthor

Kerrbearlib I LOVE her videos! I have a copy of this book on hold at the library, going to go get it tomorrow! 3w

GingerAntics @Kerrbearlib it is so heartbreaking!!! Who could let these things happen to their children?! 3w

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Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It | Adam Savage

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This is a wonderful look at into the work of Adam Savage. It‘s part memoir, part science, part shop talk. It was fun to hear him talk about creating. Even though I create in a much different way than him, I took a lot away from this lovely book. It‘s funny and uplifting, encouraging everyone to nurture their inner creator.
#AdamSavage #EverytToolsAHammer #ReadByTheAuthor

GingerAntics The subtitle made me a little nervous, but this isn‘t a book about thinking positive and more about creating whatever it is you create with wild, passionate, abandon. 3mo

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The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs | Ed Asner, Ed. Weinberger

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This book was even better the second time around. It‘s a wonderful, funny, entertaining reminder to fight the good fight. I can only imagine what he‘d be saying now if he were still with us in 2025. This book would never be read or taken seriously by a conservative audience, but it absolutely should be. If nothing else, this is a prime example of why conservatives are so afraid of history and historians.

GingerAntics Original Review: This book is funny and entertaining, but also so very important. It addresses some of the hypocrisy of modern conservative thought regarding the constitution along with the actual history on the subject. This book is most assuredly not for a conservative audience. 4mo

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The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs | Ed Asner, Ed. Weinberger

I enjoyed this one so much last time, I just need to read it again.
#EdAsner #TheGrouchyHistorian #ReadByTheAuthor

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The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans | Juilene Osborne-McKnight

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#JuileneOsborneMcKnight #TheStoryWeCarryInOurBones #ReadByTheAuthor #UnpopularOpinion #VERYUnpopularOpinion
Here goes nothing. Let‘s break some hearts!
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GingerAntics I should know better, by now, not to even bother with Irish-American versions of Irish history. These works are why I have never attempted my own manuscript of Irish history and never will. This is mostly mythology. She makes these claims that have little to no supporting evidence, but no footnotes or citations, so no way of checking her sources. This makes this book dubious as best and a racist at worst. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4mo

GingerAntics Unfortunately, we jump almost entirely from the mythological history to the famine - where she claims the English weren‘t as helpful as they could have been but Queen Victoria was great. I‘m going to need you to show your work on that, sweetie, because the math (and currently available sources) aren‘t mathing on that. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4mo

GingerAntics She claimed sectarian violence - namely The Troubles - was hundreds of years of violence, but fails to mention ALL of that violence stems from the English trying to capture Ireland as their own, while the Irish fought them off in favour of self governance (don‘t even get me started on her precious Catholic Church‘s role in that). Yeah, this was a uniquely Irish problem. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4mo

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GingerAntics One could definitely NOT ask India, Jamaica, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, the UAE, Malta, Kenya, Botswana, the Maldives, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Zambia, or any number of other former Colonies of the British empire about such things. This is Ireland‘s (and the Irish people‘s) failing. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4mo

GingerAntics Not having the Bible in public schools is a “modern tragedy?” Really? Gross. Someone is a good little minnow muncher. I went to catholic school too, and I don‘t see any need to force my beliefs on others. Please be a little more Irish and extend the same courtesy to others. Thanks. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (edited) 4mo

GingerAntics I‘m going to need to see some credentials and some citations, because the modern history of Ireland seems a little screwed, and none of my academic sources agree with her on many accounts. I‘m so glad she works at a Catholic college, but I am tremendously grateful I have never had to sit in one of her classes because I read more accurate accounts of Irish history in Middle School. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4mo

GingerAntics I can‘t imagine sitting through 13 weeks of this drivel with a grade on the line. FIN … or perhaps Le gach dea-ghuí would be more appropriate. 4mo

GingerAntics I was once working on a paper in grad school where I found a scholarly paper claiming that the Irish people were now embracing Oliver Cromwell as a not so bad bloke… I had an Irish classmate who REALLY begged to differ and laughed at the paper because it was written by an English person and clearly had no clue what it was talking about. I thought of that paper when she talked about English aid during the famine. 🤣😂🤣 4mo

Bookwomble Whoa! Sounds like an awful and biased account! Thanks for your review. 4mo

GingerAntics @Bookwomble the bias is weird, too. Sometimes it is in the Irish people‘s favour, and other times it‘s in the English people‘s favour. It‘s really weird. 4mo

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