Peggy Tibbetts

Author Peggy Tibbetts and husband care immensely for their dogs, Zeus and Venus. Zeus being very stoic and calm was different from Venus who because of her breed was a wild child. As they were just realizing the needs for Venus to have her freedom, Tibbetts neighbors harassed the family (canine and human) until Venus had to be medicated.

I really felt kinship for the Tibbetts family and misunderstood Venus. I also give them credit for sticking it out with their neighbors. I think I would have moved then put up with all that negativity.

I find that there was nothing that I disliked about Crazy Bitch but a few things may have annoying to me. Sometimes it felt too focused on the neighbors harassing the Tibbetts and as focused on the dog. I know that the harassment was part of Venus’s story too.

I do love true story about a family and their pets. Always make me remember that I am lucky to have my fur baby as long as we have had her.… (mais)

It’s been six years since 12 year-old Sarah Smith moved away from her Ft. Meyers, Florida home after the sudden death of her mother in an automobile accident. She and brother Abraham moved around with their dad from Georgia to Missouri and finally settled on a mountaintop in Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho.

Life isn’t easy for Sarah. Dalton, her dad, is a Separatist. He believes in a strict interpretation of the Bible. Since Sarah’s isolated home doesn’t have a TV, telephone, indoor plumbing, or a nearby school, she passes her free time writing letters to her friend, Juniper, who she hasn’t seen since she was in kindergarten.

Peggy Tibbetts writes a heart-rendering story from Sarah’s perspective about life with a dad still living in the 19th Century; and his close alliance to the members of the Order, a group aligned with the neo-Nazi group, the Aryan Nation. Dalton Smith is a gunsmith preparing for the upcoming revolution against the U.S. government. His wife, Shelly, is a wicked step-mom treating Sarah more like Cinderella than a beloved daughter.

Through the literary use of a journal of letters, Sarah reveals a life most pre-teens would cringe at—chores from sunup to sundown, friends living miles away, and little contact with a friendly face. From first page to last readers will be engrossed in Sarah’s plight until the mind-numbing climax.
(Warning: Read Letters to Juniper with a box of Kleenex by your side.)… (mais)