Deborah laake's book secret ceremonies of the knights

A candid, often startling memoir of the authors life as a mormon wife. Though laake is now a professional journalist, she was raised in a mormon family and sent to brigham young university with one paramount aim. A mormon womans intimate diary of marriage and beyond. Deborah laake 1953 february 6, 2000 was a columnist at the dallas morning news in the 1980s and later a staff writer, columnist, editor, and executive at the phoenix new times.

Knight, was some twelve his junior and according to. Laake didnt know that her mental illness would return or that she was developing breast cancer and that she would eventually take her own life february 6, 2000 when she was putting the finishing touches on this book back. This book landed in my lap via my husband who heard it mentioned in a crime podcast and was aware that i recently read several memoirs within. D e e p ly i n to t h e b o n e life passages ronald l. She was famous for her 1993 book entitled secret ceremonies.

The book, published in april 1993, spent 15 weeks on the new york. Secret ceremonies is the story of the awakening of deborah laake. Secret ceremonies by deborah laake, paperback barnes. Laakes secret ceremonies, latayne colvett scotts e mormon mirage. This book landed in my lap via my husband who heard it mentioned in a crime podcast and was aware that i recently read several memoirs within this genre. Consider converting to mormonism to score yourself a. In spite of oaths that would require bodily harm if she shared any information about the secret ceremonies, laake allows her readers to join her in the temple ceremonies which bound her to her first husband in this life and the afterlife. My history, sonia johnsons from housewife to heretic, deborah. Her book was one of the first to cash in on the ongoing memoir craze and was best known for laake s mocking, detailed revelation of topsecret mormon temple ceremonies and, oddly enough, for her. Consider converting to mormonism to score yourself. The book secret ceremonies makes for a fascinating case study and not just the one that the author was aiming for. A candid, often startling memoir of the author s life as a mormon wife.

Seven years before my colleague deborah laake slaughtered herself, she wrote a famous mormonbashing book, secret ceremonies. A mormon womans intimate diary of marriage and beyond, a candid and critical account of her experiences growing up and. Laake, 47, was best known for her bestselling book secret ceremonies. Oct 27, 2000 her book was one of the first to cash in on the ongoing memoir craze and was best known for laake s mocking, detailed revelation of topsecret mormon temple ceremonies and, oddly enough, for her. The mormons have lost millions since deborah laake s book secret ceremonies was published and made the new york times best seller list for. The book is written in first hand experience of deborah laakes journey from innocents in the mormon culture to awareness of how the mormon culture is really. Her book was one of the first to cash in on the ongoing memoir craze and was best known for laake s mocking, detailed revelation of top secret mormon temple ceremonies and, oddly enough, for her. Bergs children of god or family of love, soka gakkai, knights of columbus, the. Rather the better question is, was deborah laake s mental illness a result of being traumatized by the mormonlds church or by other factors. A mormon womans intimate diary of marriage and beyond by deborah laake. Writing in religion news service, jana riess characterizes secret ceremonies as a goforthejugular expose typical of the exmormon memoirs of her era. Secret of the knights is on the higher end of the scale among gamebooks ive read, easily worth two and a half stars, and the balance between it tipping forward to three stars or back to two is a close one.