July 2009 Weddings
Kate&Mark
member
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Hidden Wives - What did you think? *spoilers!*
I liked it overall but I sort of feel like it started to fall apart once they left. I had a hard time believing they had so many lucky breaks. I know it's fiction, but it made it less believable for me.
I also wonder how much of the stuff in the compound was based on fact and how much was made up for shock value.
Re: Hidden Wives - What did you think? *spoilers!*
I liked the book as well, even though "liked" may not be the best choice of words given the subject matter. I agree about the story line being different once they left the cult. I would have been interested to read how things played out back with the father and wives at home. Yes, the author kind of filled us in at the end, but I would have liked more details and how/if the wives struggled with what happened.
The babies dying and the inbreeding was definitely freaky.
I don't know too much about polygamy and the mormons. It was interesting to get a fictional look into their lives and see the family dynamics. I also don't know how common abuse like this is (hopefully not too common!) in the community in real life. And I don't know why, but I guess I never thought much about polygamy being illegal before and how only the first wife could take the husband's last name and legally be his wife.
I also thought it was interesting to read about the religious aspects, such as the husband has to bring the the wife (and children?) into heaven.
I enjoyed most of this book, but like Alycia the dying babies hit a little too hard. I felt like the beginning of the book had so much detail and information and then the end of the book was a lot of event/event/event without a lot of 'meat'. I was really hoping that they were going to sneak back in and take Alice.
I wonder if Irvin's condition could miraculously change like it did? It seemed a little extreme to me, but it's not something I am familiar with.