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Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage
Meri Brown, Kody Brown, Janelle Brown
2.98 AVERAGE
190 reviews for:
Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage
Meri Brown, Kody Brown, Janelle Brown
2.98 AVERAGE
While I can't say with a straight face that this book is "good," I enjoyed reading it for the following reasons:
1. I am fascinated by this family. It's the reality tv show effect.
2. I am interested in unconventional relationships between women, in this case sharing a husband/household/children/finances/friendship with another woman. (Also, am I projecting here? I want two more wives? Only in my version there is like, a lot more lesbian group sex and no husband?)
3. It is a breezy read with sufficient catty meanness, jealousy and cheesy romance between dorky people which I enjoy during summer months. Who doesn't?
I'm an atheist feminist and I could write twenty pages about these feelings I have about this, but --------- in the way that we like things that are not good for us and not in line with our values, e.g. fake nacho cheese sauce, popcorn for dinner, that tv show "Revenge," that person you dated for too long, (don't make me go on) I just enjoyed reading it. Caveat emptor, etc etc.
1. I am fascinated by this family. It's the reality tv show effect.
2. I am interested in unconventional relationships between women, in this case sharing a husband/household/children/finances/friendship with another woman. (Also, am I projecting here? I want two more wives? Only in my version there is like, a lot more lesbian group sex and no husband?)
3. It is a breezy read with sufficient catty meanness, jealousy and cheesy romance between dorky people which I enjoy during summer months. Who doesn't?
I'm an atheist feminist and I could write twenty pages about these feelings I have about this, but --------- in the way that we like things that are not good for us and not in line with our values, e.g. fake nacho cheese sauce, popcorn for dinner, that tv show "Revenge," that person you dated for too long, (don't make me go on) I just enjoyed reading it. Caveat emptor, etc etc.
In case anyone was wondering if I made guesses to the enneagram types of the Browns:
Meri: 1w2
Janelle: 5w6
Christine: 7
Robyn: 9w1
Kody: 7w8
Thanks for this buddy read, Carriage, although I’m still shuddering over the time Kody said something about the feeling of a spark in his loins, and when Janelle said she felt a burning in her bosom.
This is about ten years old now; at this writing they had moved to LV but hadn’t yet begun building their cul-de-sac homes. And a lotttttt has gone down since then, so it’s interesting to get some rose-tinted looks at the future. Also interesting to read how the early days were, and Meri is scary. Like Carriage said, she’s a narcissist so it’s interesting trying to read between the lines of her passages. I really was intrigued reading Robyn’s takes and what it was like for her joining all this just as they were signing onto making a show. And I never knew how that all began, but it was because Christine was this polygamous activist of sorts; she had all these speaking engagements back in the day before the show!
Meri: 1w2
Janelle: 5w6
Christine: 7
Robyn: 9w1
Kody: 7w8
Thanks for this buddy read, Carriage, although I’m still shuddering over the time Kody said something about the feeling of a spark in his loins, and when Janelle said she felt a burning in her bosom.
This is about ten years old now; at this writing they had moved to LV but hadn’t yet begun building their cul-de-sac homes. And a lotttttt has gone down since then, so it’s interesting to get some rose-tinted looks at the future. Also interesting to read how the early days were, and Meri is scary. Like Carriage said, she’s a narcissist so it’s interesting trying to read between the lines of her passages. I really was intrigued reading Robyn’s takes and what it was like for her joining all this just as they were signing onto making a show. And I never knew how that all began, but it was because Christine was this polygamous activist of sorts; she had all these speaking engagements back in the day before the show!
slow-paced
Interesting cultural anthropology. Always fascinating to hear more of the women's point of view.
I picked up this book expecting to have nothing in common with the people in it, except that I too can be in love with multiple people at the same time. I am not LDS, and I am certainly not FLDS. My inlaws are LDS, but they took pains to stress to me that plural marriage is not part of their world view. For a long time it wasn't part of mine, either. But even though I didn't enter into poly for religious reasons, and even though not a single member of my Pod ascribes to Mormonism, I found much of myself in the stories of the Brown family.
Their conviction that things just FELT right, the struggles to make everything work, the fear of being exposed... all of this and more jumped out at me as something I could relate to. Their fear for their children, their relief when people accepted them for who they are and didn't assume the worst of them. Even the heartbreaking stories of family turning their backs on the women as they came out as polygamists seemed to speak to me, because there comes a time in almost everyone's life when their lifestyle choices will alienate someone around them, and this is especially true if you're part of a subculture or counterculture.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is even vaguely interested in what poly is all about. Of course this family is practicing only one kind of poly, and there are many kinds out there, but it certainly worth the read to get insight into how this family keeps together.
Their conviction that things just FELT right, the struggles to make everything work, the fear of being exposed... all of this and more jumped out at me as something I could relate to. Their fear for their children, their relief when people accepted them for who they are and didn't assume the worst of them. Even the heartbreaking stories of family turning their backs on the women as they came out as polygamists seemed to speak to me, because there comes a time in almost everyone's life when their lifestyle choices will alienate someone around them, and this is especially true if you're part of a subculture or counterculture.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is even vaguely interested in what poly is all about. Of course this family is practicing only one kind of poly, and there are many kinds out there, but it certainly worth the read to get insight into how this family keeps together.
I enjoyed this book more than a 2 stars, but not quite enough to give it a 3. It was very interesting, but the Brown family is definitely more compelling on-screen than on the page.
I do like how each of the sister wives had her own chapter to look at the various issues contained in this book, though it does highlight how some of them are better writers than others (as one would expect). I also found it interesting to get insights into a period of their lives that I know less about, since I only started watching the Sister Wives show a few years ago, after the book had been published.
This book definitely appeals to fans of the show and continues the show's work at making the world of polygamy less black and white. I also feel like anyone, no matter your faith and beliefs, could learn from the idea that relationships have to continually be worked on, unless you are okay having a mundane life.
I do like how each of the sister wives had her own chapter to look at the various issues contained in this book, though it does highlight how some of them are better writers than others (as one would expect). I also found it interesting to get insights into a period of their lives that I know less about, since I only started watching the Sister Wives show a few years ago, after the book had been published.
This book definitely appeals to fans of the show and continues the show's work at making the world of polygamy less black and white. I also feel like anyone, no matter your faith and beliefs, could learn from the idea that relationships have to continually be worked on, unless you are okay having a mundane life.
I must have downloaded this book a couple of years ago, but have only recently managed to get into it enough to complete it. I had no idea that the Brown family were the subject of a reality TV show in America, but I am eager to try and hunt the series down, which has proved difficult to do in the UK!
I found this a really fascinating read, although very difficult for me to get my head around, given that I do not have any religious beliefs or faith, and struggle to see how polygamy is a 'thing'. That being said, Kody Brown and the four sister wives appear to have made it work for them, and although there have been many trials and tribulations along the way, it appears on the whole to be a positive experience for all of the children and wives themselves.
The thing I didn't like about this book, is that it is split into sections / topics, and each topic is told in a chapter by each wife. For instance, the section on 'sorority' is told four times over, once by each of the wives. It was useful to read all of their perspectives, but this meant that there was a lot of repetition. I could understand reading one or two perspectives on each topic, but four seemed like overkill and I found myself reading the same thing over and over again.
If you are interested to learn more about polygamy and how functioning in a family with four wives and just one husband can work, I would definitely recommend this book - it's very eye-opening!
I found this a really fascinating read, although very difficult for me to get my head around, given that I do not have any religious beliefs or faith, and struggle to see how polygamy is a 'thing'. That being said, Kody Brown and the four sister wives appear to have made it work for them, and although there have been many trials and tribulations along the way, it appears on the whole to be a positive experience for all of the children and wives themselves.
The thing I didn't like about this book, is that it is split into sections / topics, and each topic is told in a chapter by each wife. For instance, the section on 'sorority' is told four times over, once by each of the wives. It was useful to read all of their perspectives, but this meant that there was a lot of repetition. I could understand reading one or two perspectives on each topic, but four seemed like overkill and I found myself reading the same thing over and over again.
If you are interested to learn more about polygamy and how functioning in a family with four wives and just one husband can work, I would definitely recommend this book - it's very eye-opening!
Really enjoyed learning more about the family and their struggle to be one large plural family. It’s also nice to hear, in each wife’s words, how being a plural family effects them. Each has a unique outlook to share.
The book itself was maddening to me because it was full of typos and inconsistencies...like they rushed it to press without anybody even proofreading it. Still, I think the whole concept of polygamy is pretty fascinating and I applaud this family for putting their story out there for the purpose of promoting tolerance.