#42
Finished Escape by Carolyn Jessop. Between this and Inside, I'm in the mood for something light and fluffy next.
It's about Carolyn's attempt to save herself and her eight children from the FLDS (cultish offshoot of Mormonism that still practices polygamy, which real Mormons have condemned since the late 1800s). It seemed appropriate to read it now.
It's definitely a good book and it's interesting (and also scary) to watch the religion go from slightly odd to dangerous and abusive as Warren Jeffs rises to power.
Comments
Ok.
So you now have officially doubled me in the book count. DAMN YOU VICTOR HUGO!!! Did you really have to spend 90 pages describing the bloody sewer systems of France? Did you really have to spend over 100 pages recounting the Battle of Waterloo?
Good work though. I continue to be impressed. You're the first person I know that has read that book - I've read interviews with the author and I can imagine that it was just heartbreaking.
It blows my mind to think that people IN AMERICA still live like that. For the life of me I do not understand how there can still be hundreds of compounds where people get away with it. Is it not illegal? Should it not be punished?
I really don't understand.
Also (changing gears) ... I wasn't looking for a fight at the Jazz game. Rather I was there to enjoy my home town team. Things only escalted after select four-letter words were thrown about. And to that I took exception. And I mean - come on! I'm an orange belt... he was drunk - so I'm thinking it would've been fair. Haha.
Fortunately nothing happened. Aside from the Jazz laying the whoop down!
It was really good in a totally upsetting way. I can't imagine how hard it was to actually take her kids and go, because she had no real understanding of the outside world. And she had help, but not as much as she probably needed. (I mean, can you imagine? EIGHT kids? One of whom had cancer? Insane.)
Wow, 90 pages of French sewers? You're so lucky. :)
Incidentally, is it really verboten for you to drink hot beverages? I read that in Escape (FLDS considers the no alcohol/caffeine/hot beverages optional but it said that Mormons consider it mandatory). I know you shun alcohol (which is probably wise, although I maintain that if it weren't for the occasional appletini, I'd be far crazier/bitchier than I am now).
I know. I can't imagine the situation where you'd seriously go looking for a fight. I just couldn't help laughing when you said you invited him to discuss his feelings face to face. :) You're a rock star. :)