Book: Counting The Cost

 Book: Counting The Cost

Author: Jill Duggar

Pages: 288

This is my 58th read for they year

This is Jill's own story about growing up in the Duggar family and part of the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting.  Once she got married and realized that there was a life outside of her family that she wanted to lead, she tried to break ties from her family and the show.  However - this improved to be almost impossible.  The second daughter, 4th born of this enormous family always fell in line.  But now she decided that what was her life as a child is not the life she wanted anymore.  As alligations against her oldest brother got worse and worse and continued to throw her and her family further into the spotlight, Jill tried to make a life of her own.

This was a pretty good book.  I admit I watched this show years ago when it was on TV.  And as the alligations against Josh Duggar mounted, the truth of this family reared its ugly face.  I watched the documentyar "Shiny Happy People" about the Duggars and their religion as well.  Jill spins the story from when she was young and in charge of some of her siblings to when she married and moved to South America for mission trips.  I think Derrick, her husband, is a big part of her getting out of this life she was in and finding her own path.  Good read.

Stars: 4