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Bookwormjillk
Counting the Cost | Jill Duggar
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I never watched this show but I loved to read the snark on Television Without Pity. I thought Jill did a good job with this book. She told a balanced story.

bookandbedandtea I never watched this show either but I just finished The Book Of Essie and it makes me very curious to hear what Jill has to say. 1w
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nonbinaryandbitter
Counting the Cost | Jill Duggar
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This book was as transparent as I hoped and I was really into it.

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monkeygirlsmama
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook | Ellen Marie Wiseman
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⭐⭐⭐⭐

This book gave me such immense anxiety, but wow! An intense and horrifying story that is guaranteed to keep you glued to the pages.

Edited to add: Loved the narrator on this #audiobook.

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actualdisneyprincess
Free Lunch | Rex Ogle
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I‘m on the team helping with our county‘s Battle of the Books for 5th-8th grades at the local schools, and this was one of the assigned books for the 7th/8th grade group. What a heartbreaking, eye-opening read. 😭 #freelunch #rexogle #memoir

TheBookHippie One of the main reasons I campaign for free lunch for all. Which is a policy choice. Thankfully here in our state all public schools have free breakfast and lunch. In title one elementary schools we all eat breakfast then start the day. Test scores soar…. 2w
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Eggs
In Her Skin | Kim Savage
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Clever and suspenseful!! Fifteen year old, Jo who is a skilled con artist, assumes the identity of a same-age girl who‘s been missing…When you understand Jo‘s nontypical previous life, you can see how she got to this point. Tense and twisty!
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DieAReader 🥳Awesome! 3w
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Cjbesh
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Sad story. Hard to believe something so tragic could have actually have happened with so many people turning their backs and not doing anything to help out.

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pdxannie
Counting the Cost | Jill Duggar
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I am actually so surprised by this book. Jill‘s ghost writer is better than Mariah Carey‘s (and Britney Spears‘). I binged 19 Kids and Counting when I was recovering from my hysterectomy and it seemed obvious at the time that the kids were being exploited but jeez.

birdie_gw Listening to the audiobook! 1w
birdie_gw Did you watch the Amazon doc about their church? Shiny happy people I think 1w
pdxannie @birdie_gw I did! So good yet so disturbing 7d
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ClairesReads
Counting the Cost | Jill Duggar
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Look I love reality tv and I love a good background look into the drama. Better yet that there‘s some intense religious vibes and serious wrongdoing of many kinds here. An excellent recommendation from a friend that I greedily consumed on audio.

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Suet624
Counting the Cost | Jill Duggar
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I‘ve never watched a second of any of the Duggar‘s shows. 19 children just seemed religiously cult-y. So why did I listen to this? Because it‘s what was available to listen to on Libby. 😊 It turned out to be a thoughtful piece on a person who had to work very hard to separate from her father & a media company. Being the first (and maybe only one) in a family to recognize the wrongs inflicted within a family is very tough & I applaud her.

JenniferEgnor I watched Shiny Happy People on Netflix. I knew about the quiver full cult already, but I find these fascinating. It amazes me how these people hate anything sexual but yet are so obsessed with it. And there‘s so much misogyny. I come from a fundamentalist background and being out of it, I can really see the harm that a strict heteronormative teaching causes. 3w
Suet624 @JenniferEgnor so well stated. And so much misogyny! And the emotional lengths this woman had to go to just to wear pants! I had to laugh, but it was super sad too. So messed up. 3w
JenniferEgnor @Suet624 my aunt has refused to wear pants all her life. She said it was ‘my conviction‘. But that‘s horseshit—she was raised in a hostile, misogynist environment that told her not to wear them. Her sisters went on to wear them. But not her. Sad that it still takes up space in her head and she pays the rent. 3w
Suet624 @JenniferEgnor Infuriating and sad. 3w
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booklover3258
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My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/MVT18Tp1Z6I

Enjoy!

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