Tuesday, March 13, 2012

_A Stolen Life_, the story of Jaycee Dugard's 18 year captivity

This past week, my friend Mallory let me borrow A Stolen Life, the story of Jaycee Dugard's life when she lived in the secret backyard of her captor for 18 years.  When I started to read the book, I couldn't put it down! Jaycee wrote the story in the voice of her pre-teen self. It makes the book very interesting, because as a reader I can picture exactly how 11 year old Jaycee was, or how 15 year old Jaycee thought, because of the voice that she uses to tell her compelling story. When I started to read this book, it was about 8:00 at night, and I didn't put it down until 10:30, and that was just on the first night.  I got about 115-ish pages into it, and am 110% attentive to the story. This book so far has been very emotional, but also completely interesting, and I believe that it would be a great book for anyone and everyone who would like to imagine the things that Jaycee Dugard went through in her 18 year captivity. 

1 comment:

  1. That's so sad how jaycee got kidnapped. It must be tough living with all of those memories. I have heard nothing but good things about this book so maybe i'll read it some day!

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