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 The Raging Quiet $5.99 The Raging Quiet was absolutely "moon good beautiful" -definitely worth the read. It reminds me a bit of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and works by Thomas Hardy, but of course, an easier read. If you're a fan of The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare and Beauty by Robin McKinely, I highly recommend you to give this a try. As a cautionary note though, there are adult themes in this book, such as implied sex; therefore, I suggest that the reading age of The Raging Quiet to be 16+. I won't summarize the story since there's a lovely one by Amazon already, but I would like to address the setting of the novel. There have been debates on whether this is historical or fantasy. To clear this up, allow me to quote from the Author's Note in the back of the book: "[Sherryl Jordan] left their tale in the freer atmosphere of myth, and simply wrote a fantasy set in an ancient time."  Raging Heart $6.99 I just read this book. I had already read Faye's book after the trial, then I just read OJ's If I did it book, I then re read Fayes and now this one. Its really a great compilation seeing everything fit together. I really like a lot of the backdrop and various accounts on stories, more detail to stories already told or some that I never knew. Such as Nicoles Breasts being slashed not being mentioned, or that Nicole kept Dr. Susans Forwards Obsessive Love Book around the home and met with her twice for counsel on her situation. Accounts from various friends in their lives and Nicoles own family, this one has more bio on Nicoles life and family as a child and up until OJ entered the picture. You can see where a woman was trapped by control, by expectations from friends and family, by lack of help from the police the numerous times she phoned them. How Nicole had a mixed up sense of Love with OJ, and how young she was when she met him(how she came home with her pants torn and held them shut after their first date) He tore them to have sex with her. Nicole was truly formed as a teen and was now trying to find her own identity but also deal with the insanity that was OJ. A quote in the book I think sums it up.... "It was precisely that charm, alternating with rage, precisely that Jekyll-Hyde quality, Dr. Forward explained to Nicole made OJ so dangerously hard to deal with. As she observed: "The switching from charm to rage leaves you totally off balance. Everything thats right on Monday is wrong on Tuesday. So your always watching- your on emotional alert all the time." I recommend this book if you devour info on this case! And a good book for those dealing with Domestic Violence because you can see Nicoles back and forthness on trying to reconcile vs getting him out of her life, she never really could get him away. |
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