Book: Troublemaker

 Book: Troublemaker

Author: Leah Remini

Pages: 272

This is my 6th read for the year

What Amazon says:

Leah Remini has never been the type of hold her tongue.  That willingness to speak her mind, stand her ground, and rattle the occasional cage has enabled this tough-talking girl from Brooklyn to forge an enduring and successful career in Hollywood.  But being a troublemaker has come at a cost.  That was never more evidet than in 2013, when Remini loudly and publicly broke with the Church of Scientology.  Now, in this memoir, the former King of Queens star opens up about that experience for the first time, revealing the in-depth details of her painful split with the church and its controversial practices.  Indocrinated into the church as a child while living with her mother and sister in New York, Remini eventually moved to Los Angeles, where her dreams of becoming an actress and advancing Scientology's causes grew increasingly intertwined.  As an adult, she found th success she'd worked so hard for, and with it a prominent place in the hierarchy of celebrity Scientologists alongside people such as Tom Cruise, Scientology's most high-profile adherent.  Remini spent time directly with Cruise and was included among the guests at his 2006 wedding to Katie Holmes.  But when she bean to raise questions about some of the church's actions, she found herself a target.  In the end, she was declared by the church to be a threat to their organization and therefore a "Suppressive Person" and as a result all of her fellow parishioners - including members of her own family - were told to disconnect from her.  Forever.

This was a pretty good book.  I watched King of Queens, and while I found her character...."alot" - I still enjoyed the show over the years.  This book is almost 9 years old, and she has been out of scientology for over a decade, but I had no idea she was a scientologist or what all she and her family went through over the years.  Learning a bit about the inner workings of this so called church was interesting.  I would say the hardest part was that Leah seems to be know to be quiet difficult and she does a lot of complaining in this book that seemed a bit over the top.  I am sure I am being too harsh a judge.  She was in this church for 30 years and gave them a lot of time and money, so she has a right to be angry.  It just seemed to be a bit much.  OVerall, though - glad I read it.

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