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Know My Name
by Chanel Miller
This book was really and truly everything I could have possibly wanted it to be and more. I'd always been very interested in the Brock Turner case and keeping up with it. I'm not sure if it had more to do with the fact that I'm a true crime junkie, the absurdity of the whole thing, or whether it was because it felt closer to home because Brock Turner went to Oakwood High School, right down the street from one of my childhood homes. In fact, every day I drove to my community college, I would pass the beautiful and luxurious looking Oakwood High School, and I never was able to look at it the same knowing that someone like Brock graduated from there.
I knew the victim of Brock's didn't disclose her identity for the longest time, and it wasn't until I heard of this book existing did I find out she ever did come out with who she was. And I knew right away I had to get my hands on a copy because I'd only read what the media had to say about the case... I wanted to hear it from her side.
Chanel has such a beautiful way with words, and Know My Name has everything a memoir needs to make it perfection. This book holds all the details, from what it was like growing up in the Miller household, her side of what happened the night at Stanford, how all the court trials went down, how she dealt with the aftermath of being a victim of sexual assault and what she plans to do to change the clearly corrupt system that clearly does NOT have the best interest of the victim at heart. This book was heartbreaking, yet so utterly beautiful in it's realness and rawness. And all in all, it's also a book of hope.
Chanel is a force to be reckoned with, and I look forward to seeing what else she might write one day <3
[The one single gripe I have about this book is that I'm a huge sucker for books that have short chapters, or books that throw in breaks in the next often. I will even be happy when a sentence will at least end at the bottom of a page for a new one to begin on the next, so that I can throw in my bookmark and have a clean slate of a page that needs read. I found that this book pretty much always carried on a sentence to the next page, and the chapters were sooooo long. This is simply a personal gripe though, and in no way does affect how I feel about the book's context nor should it deter you from reading it - just a slight little comment for those who also love a good short chapter ;)]
I knew the victim of Brock's didn't disclose her identity for the longest time, and it wasn't until I heard of this book existing did I find out she ever did come out with who she was. And I knew right away I had to get my hands on a copy because I'd only read what the media had to say about the case... I wanted to hear it from her side.
Chanel has such a beautiful way with words, and Know My Name has everything a memoir needs to make it perfection. This book holds all the details, from what it was like growing up in the Miller household, her side of what happened the night at Stanford, how all the court trials went down, how she dealt with the aftermath of being a victim of sexual assault and what she plans to do to change the clearly corrupt system that clearly does NOT have the best interest of the victim at heart. This book was heartbreaking, yet so utterly beautiful in it's realness and rawness. And all in all, it's also a book of hope.
Chanel is a force to be reckoned with, and I look forward to seeing what else she might write one day <3
[The one single gripe I have about this book is that I'm a huge sucker for books that have short chapters, or books that throw in breaks in the next often. I will even be happy when a sentence will at least end at the bottom of a page for a new one to begin on the next, so that I can throw in my bookmark and have a clean slate of a page that needs read. I found that this book pretty much always carried on a sentence to the next page, and the chapters were sooooo long. This is simply a personal gripe though, and in no way does affect how I feel about the book's context nor should it deter you from reading it - just a slight little comment for those who also love a good short chapter ;)]