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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

Tia Levings

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me.” Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles—a series of secret, special rules to obey. Being a godly and submissive wife in Christian Patriarchy included strict discipline, isolation, and an alternative lifestyle that appeared wholesome to outsiders. Women were to be silent, “keepers of the home.” Tia knew that to their neighbors her family was strange, but she also couldn't risk exposing their secret lifestyle to police, doctors, teachers, or anyone outside of their church. Christians were called in scripture to be “in the world, not of it.” So, she hid in plain sight as years of abuse and pain followed. When Tia realized she was the only one who could protect her children from becoming the next generation of patriarchal men and submissive women, she began to resist and question how they lived. But in the patriarchy, a woman with opinions is in danger, and eventually, Tia faced an urgent and extreme stay and face dire consequences, or flee with her children. Told in a beautiful, honest, and sometimes harrowing voice, A Well-Trained Wife is an unforgettable and timely memoir about a woman's race to save herself and her family and details the ways that extreme views can manifest in a marriage.

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Sep 05, 2025

3.0

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.0

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Thoughts from 50% (audiobook, chapter 44)

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Thoughts from 50% (page 147)

This author owes me compensation for writing things that are really similar to my life. I did not pick up this book to be called out like this :(

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Libby on web browser?!

guys, i just discovered that i can pull up libby on a web browser so i can use it on my work computer without installing anything... i also discovered using the setup code instead of typing in my library card a bazillion times 🥲 does anyone else use it? or have other libby tips and tricks across devices?

i'm also just posting this here so y'all can find out too if you didn't know already :) i can finally listen to audiobooks at the office

edit to include "setup code" info: when pulling up Libby on a new device, it will prompt you to either search for your library, guess your library, or sync an existing Libby account with a setup code. click the third option and it shows a string of numbers (i think 10 digits). then, on a device where you're already logged in, scroll down below where all your library cards are managed (the hamburger in the bottom center of the navbar) to "Your Information" section > "Copy to Another Device" and type in those numbers. then it just syncs everything up to the browser! you shouldn't need to log in every time you open Libby on that device thereafter :)

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The Push

Ashley Audrain

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter–she doesn’t behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well. Then their son Sam is born–and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth. The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.

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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

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Sep 04, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.5

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Thoughts from 63% (audiobook, chapter 25)

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Saw all the posts talking about how much they hate the men and I was like "oh wonder what happens it's been a little annoying at times. And now I'm at the Scene. Ya you all (husbands) can eat rocks

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August Wrap Up

I was out of town and away from my computer (where I prefer to use Pagebound rn lol) so excuse my few days late August wrap.

Total books: 12 Night Watcher - Daphne Woolsoncroft: 4.5 ★ People We Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry: 2.5 ★ (don't yell at me) The Ballad of Songbirds and Snake - Suzanne Collins: 3.5 ★ Framed - John Grisham: 5.0 ★ (my fav this month. Made me so angry while reading it) The Martian - Andy Weir: 4 ★ The Heiress - Rachel Hawkins: 4 ★ My Friends - Fredrik Backman: 4.5 ★ The Wife Upstairs - Rachel Hawkins: 3.5 ★ A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard: 4.5 ★ The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels - Janice Hallett: 4 ★ The View From Lake Como - Adriana Trigiani: 4 ★ When Among Crows - Veronica Roth: 3.5 ★

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August Wrap Up

I was out of town and away from my computer (where I prefer to use Pagebound rn lol) so excuse my few days late August wrap.

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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Grady Hendrix

Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a blood-sucking fiend. Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood. But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she—and her book club—are the only people standing between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.

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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

John Grisham

John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, in his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a 21-year=old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to Death Row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty this book will disturb you. I you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.