by Donna | Oct 12, 2011 | Angry, Other
Rating: Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way, by Jon Krakauer. Anchor (2011) 96 pages. Vindication! I read Three Cups of Tea a couple of years ago, well before the scandal broke (via the April 17 episode of 60 Minutes),...
by Donna | Aug 30, 2009 | Fiction
(This review first appeared in December 2002) Rating: The Rapture of Canaan, by Sheri Reynolds. Berkley Books (1995), 320 pages. Who doesn’t love a good story about a young girl growing up in a religious cult in the backwoods of the Southern U.S.? In this...
by Cindy | Aug 29, 2009 | Memoir
Rating: Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult, by Jayanti Tamm. Harmony Books (2009), 288 pages. In the memoir category, stories of being brought up in a cult are hard to beat. The craziness surpasses anything one would find in a really good,...