Her book was one of the first to cash in on the ongoing memoir craze and was best known for laake s mocking, detailed revelation of top secret mormon temple ceremonies and, oddly enough, for her. In spite of oaths that would require bodily harm if she shared any information about the secret ceremonies, laake allows her readers to join her in the temple ceremonies which bound her to her first husband in this life and the afterlife. Laake, 47, was best known for her bestselling book secret ceremonies. Number of german priest ordinations plummets to new low. A candid, often startling memoir of the author s life as a mormon wife. This book landed in my lap via my husband who heard it mentioned in a crime podcast and was aware that i recently read several memoirs within this genre. A mormon womans intimate diary of marriage and beyond, a candid and critical account of her experiences growing up and. A mormon womans intimate diary of marriage and beyond, a candid and critical account of her experiences growing up and marrying as a member of the. D e e p ly i n to t h e b o n e life passages ronald l. Her book was one of the first to cash in on the ongoing memoir craze and was best known for laake s mocking, detailed revelation of topsecret mormon temple ceremonies and, oddly enough, for her. Knight, was some twelve his junior and according to. She was famous for her 1993 book entitled secret ceremonies. Laake, a former member of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints lds church, chronicles her experiences with mormonism and the various rituals performed in their temples. Secret ceremonies is the story of the awakening of deborah laake.
Consider converting to mormonism to score yourself. In the introduction, the author says that many times she gave up on writing this book. This book landed in my lap via my husband who heard it mentioned in a crime podcast and was aware that i recently read several memoirs within. Deborah laake is pretty darned flabbergasted by the way her book, secret ceremonies, is being received. The mormons have lost millions since deborah laake s book secret ceremonies was published and made the new york times best seller list for.
A mormon womans intimate diary of marriage and beyond by deborah laake. Ever since the execrable roosh valizadeh decided hed rather be a patriarch than a pickup artist, he and the writers on his return of kings garbage site have been singing the praises of tradi. A mormon womans intimate diary of marriage and beyond. Bergs children of god or family of love, soka gakkai, knights of columbus, the. My history, sonia johnsons from housewife to heretic, deborah. Deborah laake 1953 february 6, 2000 was a columnist at the dallas morning news in the 1980s and later a staff writer, columnist, editor, and executive at the phoenix new times. Rather the better question is, was deborah laake s mental illness a result of being traumatized by the mormonlds church or by other factors. Time machine junior novels are different than most gamebooks.
The book secret ceremonies makes for a fascinating case study and not just the one that the author was aiming for. A mormon womans intimate diary of marriage and beyond is a 1993 autobiographical book written by american journalist and columnist deborah laake description. Secret ceremonies by deborah laake, paperback barnes. Oct 27, 2000 her book was one of the first to cash in on the ongoing memoir craze and was best known for laake s mocking, detailed revelation of topsecret mormon temple ceremonies and, oddly enough, for her. Laakes secret ceremonies, latayne colvett scotts e mormon mirage. Consider converting to mormonism to score yourself a. Laake didnt know that her mental illness would return or that she was developing breast cancer and that she would eventually take her own life february 6, 2000 when she was putting the finishing touches on this book back. Secret of the knights is on the higher end of the scale among gamebooks ive read, easily worth two and a half stars, and the balance between it tipping forward to three stars or back to two is a close one. Seven years before my colleague deborah laake slaughtered herself, she wrote a famous mormonbashing book, secret ceremonies. Though laake is now a professional journalist, she was raised in a mormon family and sent to brigham young university with one paramount aim. The book, published in april 1993, spent 15 weeks on the new york. The book is written in first hand experience of deborah laakes journey from innocents in the mormon culture to awareness of how the mormon culture is really. This, i believe, is the better question because it elevates this intriguing and riveting book past its banal particulars to far more valuable universal questions.
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