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Tara Westover grew up in rural Idaho, the youngest daughter of a somewhat fundamentalist (heavy on scripture but no plural wives) Mormon family. Following the FBI’s raid on Ruby Ridge in 1992, her father also completed his plunge into becoming a paranoid survivalist, complete with burying gas and guns on their land so they would be ready when the FBI came to take them away.
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I thought this was a really interesting and insightful read, whether you consider yourself an introvert, extrovert, or somewhere in between. The book is split into 4 parts. In the first part, the table is set and we learn the difference between extroverts and introverts and how society favors extroverts, as well as some of the historical and cultural implications of this. The second part
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I picked this up because I am a fan of Flynn and Lavoie’s podcast Crime Writers On, and I wasn’t disappointed. This is the true story of a couple of young adults in New Hampshire and the awful crime they committed. Kat McDonough was 17, loved drama (as in acting), and, like many 17 year olds, was angry with her parents. This made her the
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This book is touted as a hilarious, wacky story, but mostly I found it sad. Frankly, Victoria is surrounded by terrible people, with maybe the exception of her sister. And I don’t think they’re terrible because they are committing crimes, they are terrible all on their own. The best parts of the book are when she is talking about motherhood and her daughter, and my
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