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Painful Truth
This is a true story of a woman's life and the abuse she endured as a child!
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First published May 31, 2012
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September 6, 2013
Rating: 10.0/10.0
Review: This book relays a truth about some people’s childhoods. So true, in fact, that this author decided to turn her abused childhood into a memoir type story. The pain that you could feel through the book was real. In fact, it was more real then I could handle at times. I believe this story should be read by anyone who believes they have had a hard life without going through something like this. I applaud this author for opening up to the world and telling her story. I cried a plethora of times, and I’m not ashamed to say it. This story is so…painfully truthful it hurts to read it. I will warn you, if you were abused as a child, some of the other reviews on this book opened old wounds for people that were abused, and it might you as well. God Bless author Kristen Strong for telling her story, and I hope, pray, and wish that anyone who has gone through something like this heals. Maybe it’ll open some eyes on child abuse and hopefully it’ll help someone who needs to heal too.
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Review: This book relays a truth about some people’s childhoods. So true, in fact, that this author decided to turn her abused childhood into a memoir type story. The pain that you could feel through the book was real. In fact, it was more real then I could handle at times. I believe this story should be read by anyone who believes they have had a hard life without going through something like this. I applaud this author for opening up to the world and telling her story. I cried a plethora of times, and I’m not ashamed to say it. This story is so…painfully truthful it hurts to read it. I will warn you, if you were abused as a child, some of the other reviews on this book opened old wounds for people that were abused, and it might you as well. God Bless author Kristen Strong for telling her story, and I hope, pray, and wish that anyone who has gone through something like this heals. Maybe it’ll open some eyes on child abuse and hopefully it’ll help someone who needs to heal too.
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December 31, 2012
I chose this book because I loved The Glass Castle. The difference between the two is that in Glass Castle, the parents were a little off and the situations were bizarre, but they didn't outwardly physically abuse the children. In Painful Truth, there is more physical abuse which is really difficult to read. I have to take this one in smaller doses, and therefore started a "perfectly harmless" piece of romantic historical fiction (Fire Dance) at the same time to cleanse my brain of some of the abusive moments in this book.
I also feel that Glass Castle was a full-scale memoir with a clear message, beginning to end, where this one seems to be a collection of memories that were pieced together for shock appeal--a bit choppy. It's an ok read, and I will finish it out of curiosity for what happens--but it's going to be a tough one based on subject matter to get through.
I also feel that Glass Castle was a full-scale memoir with a clear message, beginning to end, where this one seems to be a collection of memories that were pieced together for shock appeal--a bit choppy. It's an ok read, and I will finish it out of curiosity for what happens--but it's going to be a tough one based on subject matter to get through.
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