Thank you so much @DeeLew I love what you picked out. I'm really excited about the books and the bag is so cute. I love the socks and candle and am looking forward to trying the treats 👻
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pickThis is a necessary expose, but I didn't care for the writing style. But it is clear that Beatrice Sparks, author of Go Ask Alice, was a pathological liar and a terrible person. What she did in writing Jay's Journal (a book I hadn't heard of) is reprehensible. Her books should not be in print any longer, but publishers are still making money off them.
pickI'm sure we've heard about the urban legend of Go Ask Alice allegedly being true by an author going by the pen name Anonymous. Well, it turns out to be all a great big lie! Anonymous is actually a fraudster writer, Beatrice Sparks, an alleged psychoanalyst from the Mormon church embellished stories of troubled teens to push a moral agenda as cautionary tales. Here, the book examines her exploitation of real teens for profit and exposes her!
Hey #TeamCrypKeepers, Here is another readathon #SpookWeek. All month long hosted by @TheSpineView, tag her, do your points for #Scarathlon23 and tag me too with updates. @TheBookHippie @JenReadsAlot @BarkingMadRead @kezzlou85 @Marmie7 @Rissa1 @aperfectmjk @Bookishgal71 @Nazgul93 @natsahara @BookingitwithSandra
bailedIt may be a case of me not the book, since I was having a bad pain day when I started this and having trouble concentrating on anything… But I found the writing dry and the structure jumpy, and around halfway through I realized I just didn‘t care how things wrapped up.
pickHow have I made it this long without reading “Go Ask Alice” by Anonymous? Turns out, Anonymous is actually Beatrice Sparks, who never wanted to be anonymous in the first place, but publishers thought the book would sell better if it was presented as a real diary. They were correct, to put it mildly. This is also the stories of the actual people who inspired the “diaries” written by Sparks, two troubled teens and their families. What a scam.
12-1-22: My November Book Wrap Up part 1! These 3 books were terrific and I gave them 5⭐️.
pickWhen I was a young teen in the early 80s, 'Go Ask Alice' blew me away.
Fast forward forty years and 'Unmask Alice' did the same thing.
Turns out the diaries weren't anonymous after all, but were written by a Mormon housewife who went on to publish several other 'diaries' dealing with hot topics such as Satanism and AIDS.
I have to say that, as part of the intended audience, 'Go Ask Alice' scared me away from drug use.
