Shunned
How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself

This book was fantastic!!!😍 It was beautifully written and powerful! As someone who lost themselves and was hurt because of being kicked out of my church, I could relate in some ways to this book. I loved and appreciated the honesty this book had to offer and I highly recommend this book to others!......more

Linda Curtis was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, and everyone she loved—her friends, her family—shared her faith, as did the man she eventually married. She belief was strong until she was in her early thirties, when doubts crept in and she begins to question everything she'd ever believed to be true......more

I'm really glad that Linda A. Curtis left the JWs and found her own way, especially later in life when she was already married, all of her family was in it etc. It was very brave of her and I commend her for it. But as a book, there were parts of this that weren't all that interesting. I really, real......more

The first half of the book drew me in as Linda explained her crisis of faith. But the second half was full of lengthy explanations of day to day, month to month activities. It was rambling at times which made it difficult to get through.......more

Most books that I have read about those leaving their childhood religions have been by those raised as Ultra-Orthodox Jews. Thus, this book was an interesting change. Linda Curtis grew up in a Jehovah’s Witness family. While her father was not a member of the faith when she was growing up, all other......more