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[quote=Anonymous]I am listening to Awake on audio book and am reporting back.

Her intro made me like her again. It was part forward that is probably in the book and a message just for audible listeners. It felt warm and genuine. There was also a LOT of disclaimer language that this was the story she remembers and other people may remember it differently and some blah blah about her changing the dates around to protect people's privacy.

The actual book so far seems disjointed and jumps around a lot. I can't tell yet what knits these vignettes from her life together and what should make sense about the order. It's not riveting but I'm not bored with it yet.

I will say that purity culture has really done a number on her mentally and she seems to hold a lot of anger toward that. I grew up in a purity culture church and it didn't impact me quite so traumatically. My parents were like "Yeah, yeah, wear the shirt over your bathing suit at Bible camp and we don't care if you wear a bikini at the neighborhood pool" but this is really stamped on Jen's psyche pretty hard. I think this might be common trope for deconstruction influencers but she's very vehement about how terible it was.

After the first couple of chapters, I have noticed a tone shift where she seems to be very caustic and angry when it doesn't gel with the story she is telling. I picture her clenching her jaw and seething inside - she sounds livid.

What I've heard so far seems pretty average and not so different than my own upbringing or that of the average kid who grew up in a conservative-ish home but it is obvious that little moments from her past where things didn't work out like she wanted or someone didn't like her are anger inducing memories for her.

It's werid[/quote]

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