Litsy

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!) | Bethany Joy Lenz

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This book was beautifully written and I love Joys raw and honesty throughout. You can feel her struggles and understand how she ended up in a cult without even realizing it.. I also love that she narrated her own book 🥹❤️

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BarbaraBB

The Children of Red Peak | Craig DiLouie

#WeeklyFavorites

Ending the month with the tagged as this week‘s choice. Remote Sympathy is my favorite book this month.

Read4life

Lesliereadsalot Already picked this one up! 1w

Read4life Great month 🧡🎃🧡 1w

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DieAReader

Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons | Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer

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#Read2025 #Wardens2025

Amazing Triumph🎉

CoverToCoverGirl

CoverToCoverGirl I imagine it‘s a dark tale that‘s truly difficult to believe. 2w

DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl 🫂Very much so 2w

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BarbaraBB

The Children of Red Peak | Craig DiLouie

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Five survivors of a cult (all other members mysteriously) are trying to live their lives as if all of that didn‘t happen. When one of them commits suicide however, they know they have to face their past. Should they return to Red Peak for answers?
A pageturner! Thanks for the recommendation @Reggie

#fictionaltraveler #trees

julieclair

Reggie I like the fall leaves in the background. I‘m glad you liked it. I thought he wrote music experiences pretty well like when that guy was having those cathartic moments during his concerts. 2w

BarbaraBB @Reggie Yes and Beth listening to him at that gig in LA! (edited) 2w

Lesliereadsalot Ooh…I like the sound of this one! 2w

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ShelleyBooksie Lovely photo! 2w

Cathythoughts Stacking 👍🏻 2w

vivastory You read a dilouir? I 🖤 that 1w

BarbaraBB @vivastory my first! I hadn‘t heard of him before. You‘ve read more by him? 1w

vivastory I've read a few, my favorite part is definitely

One of Us

vivastory Although Suffer the Children is high on my TBR 1w

BarbaraBB @vivastory Both sound so good! I have to research his backlist! 1w

BarbaraBB @ShelleyBooksie Thank you!! 1w

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BarbaraBB

The Children of Red Peak | Craig DiLouie

#WeeklyForecast 42/25

I am reading both Satisfaction Cafe and A Dedicated Man. Enjoying both. Next will be one recommended by @Reggie : The Children of Red Peak.

Reggie I hope you like it!!! 4w

Cathythoughts These all look good 👍🏻❤️ 4w

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bio_chem06

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism | Amanda Montell

Kind of a disappointing month. I didn‘t read a book that made me really feel something…..

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JenniferEgnor

Counting the Cost | Jill Duggar

so-so

I went into this book thinking it might be a more personal deep dive into the hidden abuses revealed in the shiny happy people documentary. It was more about Jill talking about how uncomfortable it was to be on camera all the time, the double standard of how her brother was treated by her father versus how she was treated, and later financial abuse. I‘m glad Jill found her way out of the fundamentalist stranglehold, but I think she‘s still in⬇️

JenniferEgnor deconstruction, as so many of us are. It takes years of work and support from other people to fully get out of it. 2mo

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Schwifty

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism | Amanda Montell

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Montell explores the connections between the manipulative language tactics cults we normally think of (Jonestown, Heaven‘s Gate) with organizations and trends we might not think of as cults such as MLMs, boutique fitness trends and followings, conspiracy theories and my favorite, corporate techno-babble. It‘s not to say that these other things are cults, but that they exhibit some features, not always negative. This book is good; maybe not great.

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