Comments on: Shattered Dreams, My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife by Irene Spencer

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:44:44 +0000

Great review! What an amazing woman to live in such conditions and come out of it all sane.

By: SmallWorld Reads

SmallWorld Reads — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:30:07 +0000

Great review! I’ll have to add this to my TBR list.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:51:19 +0000

AMAZING story. That sounds like a really fascinating review. Thanks for sharing it with us!

By: Ginger

Ginger — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:37:12 +0000

wow. i’m not sure what to say. it sounds like saying she has had a hard life would be an understatement. idk. wow…

By: Escape by Carolyn Jessop

Escape by Carolyn Jessop — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:00:25 +0000

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By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:01:23 +0000

Wow I can’t even imagine.

By: Jeane

Jeane — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:50:46 +0000

I’m curious about these books. I grew up Mormon, and find the tv show “Big Love” very interesting. I haven’t read any books written about polygamist experience yet, although Escape caught my eye in the bookstore once. I didn’t realize it was about fundamentalist Mormons, for some reason I thought it was a different religion.

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:30:52 +0000

I recently went through a whole list of books written by former FLDS polygamist wives, including Shattered Dreams and Escape. It really is difficult to read though. I was especially interested in a book I read that was an autobiography of a woman who lived in the early 1900s as a polygamous wife and never left. It is called A Mormon Mother by Anne Clark Taylor.

Some others I read are “His favorite wife : trapped in polygamy : a true story of violent fanaticism by Schmidt, Susan Ray. “, “The secret lives of saints : child brides and lost boys in Canada’s polygamous Mormon sect by Bramham, Daphne. ” (this one was especially interesting as it highlights the problem of the Lost Boys as well) and “Stolen innocence my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs by Wall, Elissa. “