Counting the Cost--#75 finished

I had never watched a show of the Duggar Family with their 19 kids.  I had heard about it so kind of knew some of the story.  This is a book by one of the older daughters Jill Duggar.  She sort of broke away from the family once she was married & started having kids herself.  She was also one that was abused by her older brother too.  In her book she even mentions that her family was cult like, I was surprised that she wrote that because that is really the feeling I got in reading about this family.  It was cult like probably worse before it got on TV, at least once on TV the kids & family had the means to see other things and I think helped at least some of them break away.  The dad was the leader of this troop and wanted to continue as leader even after kids got married, while at the same time screwing the kids over with the money earned while the show was being televised.  A really kind of scary situation, and sorry that he or them wrapped themselves in God and the Bible to help maintain this control.

There are 25 WL for this book on PBS so I will probably post at some point & mail off, no reason to keep this one.

Murdered Midas--#74 finished

This is my first August finished book by the way, was late in getting that Chelsea Handler book logged in.  The rest of the title: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise.  This is about the life of Harry Oakes, he grew up on Maine but traveled the world in search of gold.  He struck it rich in Canada and was smart enough and able to get investors to get enough capital to maintain control of the mine & it's output rather than sell it off early on.  He was not a very social person and became obsessed with his money once the mine was operating where he didn't have to be there.  He moved to Miami to avoid Canadian taxes & then to the Bahamas for the same reason.  Because he was so rich he also had home in London where because part of the British empire, he became known in high sets & became Sir Harry Oakes.  I think it was at age 63 he was murdered in his home in the Bahamas, this was during WWII & also where the resigned King of England was now governor.  A not very well liked son in law became the suspect and a shoddy investigation pinned it on him.  After a trial showing how shoddy the investigation was, the son-in-law got off and the daughter stayed with him.  Lots of really good detail and information about something I hadn't heard anything about before reading this book.

There are no copies on PBS but at this point will save as a keeper for now.  Maybe look to hand off to friends if they are interested.

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang--#73 finished

This was the next Chelsea Handler book, published in 2010.  I am not sure why I have kept ordering her books, they are funny enough but not sure enough to have like 6 books by her.  I didn't watch her show on E but I guess her funny free living life hooked me into reading her books.  This one seems a little forced, more practical jokes instead of crazy observations.  A lot with her boyfriend a TV executive, not sure how long he stays in the picture--for all I know they maybe married for a bunch of years right now.  Needed a sort of mindless entertainment book and this one was it.

There are plenty of copies already on PBS so not posting it.