Okay I didn’t realize this book came with a QUIZ! I was thinking the $30 price tag was a little steep, but I guess I didn’t factor in how this very important quiz decides whether or not I’m a people pleaser… /s
*Speaking recently at a church conference, popular author and pastor-teacher John MacArthur told attendees that mental illness doesn’t exist. He also implied that children who take medications due to mental health diagnoses are turned into “a potential drug addict” or “potential criminal.”*
*“The major noble lie is that there’s such a thing as mental illness,” said MacArthur during a Q&A session at a conference on April 20 at Grace Church of the Valley in Kingsburg, California. “Now this isn’t new. You have Thomas Szasz back in the 1950s, who was a psychiatrist, writing a book on ‘The Myth of Mental Illness.’” (Szasz’s book was first* [*published*](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)61789-9/fulltext) *in 1961.)*
*MacArthur continued: “There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD. Those are noble lies to basically give the excuse, in the end of the day, to medicate people. And Big Pharma is in charge of a lot of that.”*
*AND:*
[*https://www.reddit.com/r/DuggarsSnark/comments/xyk59y/remember\_that\_jinjers\_idol\_john\_macarthur\_handled/*](https://www.reddit.com/r/DuggarsSnark/comments/xyk59y/remember_that_jinjers_idol_john_macarthur_handled/)
Naivety isn’t an excuse for being part of a system that regularly votes against human rights. Jingle is still a “people pleaser” in a cult. Instead of Jim Bob, she has to please Jeremy. Instead of IBLP, she is part of John MacArthur’s cult.
A “key selling point” is that her “hometown” is Los Angeles? Well, great; that should make the book I’m writing a cinch to sell, since I was actually born and raised in L.A. and not just a grifter who moved there a couple of years ago.
And, I'm betting, absolutely no academic research. Just her own personal experience, but by golly gee, that makes her qualified to create a quiz and give advice.
Well not much different from those old quizzes in Teen magazine in that respect. All of us going along and trusting some random magazine writer to tell us about boys...
Newhall ≠ Los Angeles
It's not even "the valley" that people are referring to when they say LA and the Valley. It is in LA county, though, so I'll give her that, I guess.
Notice how the synopsis says that she grew up under the strict teachings of Gothard (OMG, my phone just autocorrected that to Got hard, quite apt) as though her parents had absolutely nothing to do with it!
I currently live in Minneapolis, so I consider it my hometown.
My birth town is in Tennessee, which never felt like home… so I refer to it as my birth town.
So the second part of the title - breaking free of imaginary expectations - wtf is that? If the expectations are imaginary than - wtf? That’s the best she and her ghost writers could do? The expectations of IBLP/Bill Gothard/and let’s face it - actually came from her messed up parents - none of that was/is ‘imaginary’.
First sentence of the description alluding to it providing behind the scenes info about her family once again. Guessing it’s going to be as much of a nothing burger as her last “expose”. And instead of being an iblp people pleaser she’s now a grace community church people pleaser but it’s TOTALLY DIFFERENT guys.
It’s not just that, though.
>hometown noun
>: the city or town where one was born or grew up
>also : the place of one's principal residence
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hometown
>hometown
>(hoʊmtaʊn IPA Pronunciation Guide ) also home town
>Word forms: plural hometowns
>Someone's hometown is the town where they live or the town that they come from.
I went to work as a painter in my hometown, Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hometown
>hometown
>noun [ C ]
>US /ˈhoʊm.taʊn/ UK /ˈhəʊm.taʊn/
>the town or city that a person is from, especially the one in which they were born and lived while they were young:
>He was born in Miami, but he considers New York his hometown since he's lived there most of his life.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hometown
Every dictionary online dictates it’s where one currently lives (is from) and/or where they were born. There is nothing wrong with Jinger stating that Los Angeles is her hometown. If you were to move countries, from London UK to Sydney AUS and a form asks your hometown, you wouldn’t list London as your hometown because you’d list Sydney as that’s where a company can find you and contact you. I personally moved to the other side of the country, I’m not listing my place of birth on forms when they ask for my hometown. I list my current town. If they wanted my place of birth they’d ask for my POB - place of birth.
It's a matter of interpretation. I've seen people use the place where they lived longest as a child, where they lived as a teen, where they were born, where they feel the most connected, and where they live now. Los Angeles is a legitimate "hometown" for her - she lives there now (or in it's environs) and it might be the place she feels most connected.
Some people feel they have more than one hometown.
This isn't something I'd argue with.
In publishing terms, hometown refers to where the author currently lives because that’s where they would be available to do events, local interviews, etc
Hard agree, I also don’t understand why her name is so MASSIVE. They could’ve moved the title under her giant hat (where her name is) and put her name in a smaller font under the title.
Grain of salt, but just based on my limited experience the hometown = where you currently live thing isn’t too uncommon when it comes to book promotion because publishers/publicists are often thinking of places where you can easily promote books as a “local author,” and that’s almost always the place where you live for practical reasons. I published a couple of books and definitely was listed as a local Los Angeles author as well because I live here now as opposed to where I grew up. On the flip side, someone I know who now lives my hometown (i.e., where I grew up) recently published a book and their hometown was listed as that place even though they grew up in another state.
It's not unusual for someone to change their place of origin. Many think that they cannot be taken seriously, especially on the East or West Coast, if one is known as coming from someplace like Arkansas or Alabama.🐖🐄
Okay I didn’t realize this book came with a QUIZ! I was thinking the $30 price tag was a little steep, but I guess I didn’t factor in how this very important quiz decides whether or not I’m a people pleaser… /s
It's like one of those early 2000s American Girl quizzes
Omg stop you just unlocked so many memories. I LOVED those quizzes lol
I would spend hours in Border’s picking out the perfect quiz book lol
Oh wow, I loved those quizzes! Maybe taking her quiz will bring back the nostalgia 😍
Well that just makes me feel like I’m getting such a bang for my buck! 🙄😂
It’s also killing me that the subtitle is just the title of her last book lol
Jing has to let us know that she IS free… no need to free her anymore 🙃
Indeed
I hope she at least consulted with a professional regarding the quiz. If not then it could just be a quiz from a teen magazine. 😐🙃
Oh that’s 100% what I’m imagining. Turn the book upside down to see how you did.
😂😂😂😂 “if you chose mostly A’s then you’re a people pleaser..”
These quizzes can be done in instagram for free as well.
How many books is this woman going to write? She already has 2 entire books about basically nothing
She'll write as many as sell. As long as the publisher gets sales from her books, they'll continue to buy them from her.
This is actually her 4th book. Her and Jerm also wrote that “The Hope We Hold” joint book and the children’s book (idr the name).
Don’t forget the “Duggar Sisters” book
Oh yeah I wasn’t counting that one because I don’t think it’s part of her new book deal.
I know her agent. He is very, very good at his job. She’ll write at least one more.
do you know if she uses a ghost writer? some of the writing is overly fake deep but i'm not sure if that's just her
She went to the SOTDRT. Definitely has a ghost writer.
I don’t know for sure, as in I cannot testify to it, but I would say it is highly likely. I doubt she can write that clearly and professionally.
She probs had a 2 book deal and this was her 2nd one.
Right? And this whole “people pleasing” topic has been done to death IMO.
Yea and by actual psychiatrists and psychologists who have actual qualifications other than "doing Jim Bob's bidding."
I’ve never met someone who identifies as a people pleaser and agreed with their assessment lmao
Same for me. I also side eye self described empaths.
This is so true on the side eye…
Bwahaha! As soon as SNL came out with this, I got rid of my big dumb hat!!! Lolz!
I still have my big dumb hat 😂. To be fair, it’s not as huge as others.
Good job. 👏
The first thing I think of every time this book cover pops up in my Reddit feed. There are better ways to hide a fivehead.
Don’t forget the perfect accessory, Big Dumb Cup! 😛
That was my second thought. LOL.
Classic fundy hat
A “people pleaser quiz”? From someone who is actually a people pleaser herself? That’s a real hard and quick no!
I already know I’m a people pleaser I don’t need to take a quiz
And there’s a ton of quizzes you can find online for FREE. She’s pretending to be an expert with no formal education to do so.
Yep, and I can't even blame my results on bill gothard 😭
Ok but having a giant picture of myself with a negative label above my head is honestly the last thing I’d want lol😂😂
I was like wow this cover is certainly a… choice, to put it nicely.
I should post a giant picture of myself with “low self esteem” above my head
Omg
Can we talk about the hat, omg
It’s the Amy Schumer SNL skit come to life
Big dumb hat!
I call them tampon hats, dancing around on commercials for tampons. So silly, I hate those hats.
The Instagram/MLM/influencer/boss babe hat 😂
Thank you. It's awful.
Her pastor denies PTSD and other mental health issues and their church minimizes sexual abuse. She is a useful idiot
Oh gross, hard pass. It was definitely a pass but now it’s a HARD no.
*Speaking recently at a church conference, popular author and pastor-teacher John MacArthur told attendees that mental illness doesn’t exist. He also implied that children who take medications due to mental health diagnoses are turned into “a potential drug addict” or “potential criminal.”* *“The major noble lie is that there’s such a thing as mental illness,” said MacArthur during a Q&A session at a conference on April 20 at Grace Church of the Valley in Kingsburg, California. “Now this isn’t new. You have Thomas Szasz back in the 1950s, who was a psychiatrist, writing a book on ‘The Myth of Mental Illness.’” (Szasz’s book was first* [*published*](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)61789-9/fulltext) *in 1961.)* *MacArthur continued: “There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD. Those are noble lies to basically give the excuse, in the end of the day, to medicate people. And Big Pharma is in charge of a lot of that.”* *AND:* [*https://www.reddit.com/r/DuggarsSnark/comments/xyk59y/remember\_that\_jinjers\_idol\_john\_macarthur\_handled/*](https://www.reddit.com/r/DuggarsSnark/comments/xyk59y/remember_that_jinjers_idol_john_macarthur_handled/)
Absolutely vile. So she went from one cult to another. That whole “disentangling” crap was just a bunch of bullshit.
It is more of being naive and having no other reference point.
Naivety isn’t an excuse for being part of a system that regularly votes against human rights. Jingle is still a “people pleaser” in a cult. Instead of Jim Bob, she has to please Jeremy. Instead of IBLP, she is part of John MacArthur’s cult.
she's an adult with a functional internet connection. She is choosing ignorance.
People like this make me so mad. The amount of damage he's doing to countless people who attend his stupid church
I don’t need a quiz to tell me that lol
LMAO
A “key selling point” is that her “hometown” is Los Angeles? Well, great; that should make the book I’m writing a cinch to sell, since I was actually born and raised in L.A. and not just a grifter who moved there a couple of years ago.
And, I'm betting, absolutely no academic research. Just her own personal experience, but by golly gee, that makes her qualified to create a quiz and give advice.
Well not much different from those old quizzes in Teen magazine in that respect. All of us going along and trusting some random magazine writer to tell us about boys...
I'm sure this one will be ghostwritten by cult PR, just like the other.
Yeah, I doubt she can write anything by herself
Newhall ≠ Los Angeles It's not even "the valley" that people are referring to when they say LA and the Valley. It is in LA county, though, so I'll give her that, I guess.
Jeremy loves books. Jinger loves Jeremy, so now she loves books too.
Notice how the synopsis says that she grew up under the strict teachings of Gothard (OMG, my phone just autocorrected that to Got hard, quite apt) as though her parents had absolutely nothing to do with it!
Is she still on their payroll?
Wait for it in the library folks. This trash isn’t worth anyone’s dime.
I currently live in Minneapolis, so I consider it my hometown. My birth town is in Tennessee, which never felt like home… so I refer to it as my birth town.
Traditionally hometown meant the town of your growing up. Meaning to some words and expressions change over time. I guess this is one of them.
No, it still means this.
Edelweiss or net galley?
Edelweiss!
Nice. I prefer them too.
I just find EW so much easier. Netgalley also doesn’t update as fast.
who approved that hat??
Everytime I see the bookcover I cringe because of the HAT
It’s giving *fundie hipster*
So the second part of the title - breaking free of imaginary expectations - wtf is that? If the expectations are imaginary than - wtf? That’s the best she and her ghost writers could do? The expectations of IBLP/Bill Gothard/and let’s face it - actually came from her messed up parents - none of that was/is ‘imaginary’.
First sentence of the description alluding to it providing behind the scenes info about her family once again. Guessing it’s going to be as much of a nothing burger as her last “expose”. And instead of being an iblp people pleaser she’s now a grace community church people pleaser but it’s TOTALLY DIFFERENT guys.
Has she mentioned or promoted this book at all? Are these all leaks
Oh my, not again?! Another one book about nothing. She likes pretending she's a writer or what. A snail is less boring than this woman.
Cuz it’s where she lives right now
But it’s so much funnier to think of her desperately thinking of any and all ways to wipe herself clean of Arkansas lmao
It’s not her home town though. Her hometown is in Arkansas.
People often go by where they’re living as an adult.
It’s not just that, though. >hometown noun >: the city or town where one was born or grew up >also : the place of one's principal residence https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hometown >hometown >(hoʊmtaʊn IPA Pronunciation Guide ) also home town >Word forms: plural hometowns >Someone's hometown is the town where they live or the town that they come from. I went to work as a painter in my hometown, Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hometown >hometown >noun [ C ] >US /ˈhoʊm.taʊn/ UK /ˈhəʊm.taʊn/ >the town or city that a person is from, especially the one in which they were born and lived while they were young: >He was born in Miami, but he considers New York his hometown since he's lived there most of his life. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hometown Every dictionary online dictates it’s where one currently lives (is from) and/or where they were born. There is nothing wrong with Jinger stating that Los Angeles is her hometown. If you were to move countries, from London UK to Sydney AUS and a form asks your hometown, you wouldn’t list London as your hometown because you’d list Sydney as that’s where a company can find you and contact you. I personally moved to the other side of the country, I’m not listing my place of birth on forms when they ask for my hometown. I list my current town. If they wanted my place of birth they’d ask for my POB - place of birth.
It's a matter of interpretation. I've seen people use the place where they lived longest as a child, where they lived as a teen, where they were born, where they feel the most connected, and where they live now. Los Angeles is a legitimate "hometown" for her - she lives there now (or in it's environs) and it might be the place she feels most connected. Some people feel they have more than one hometown. This isn't something I'd argue with.
My dad didn’t move to his “hometown” until he was 15. It has a lot of meanings.
In publishing terms, hometown refers to where the author currently lives because that’s where they would be available to do events, local interviews, etc
I wonder if she discusses her Big Dumb Hat Journey
The duggars are all illiterate, who wrote this?
Probably the same guy who wrote the last one.
Did Jinger downvote me? 😆
Not surprised that LA is now her hometown.
Is the egalley up on Edelweiss OP 👀🙏🏻
This cover design is such a mess. Her face is crowded out by huge font, that isn’t great font either.
Hard agree, I also don’t understand why her name is so MASSIVE. They could’ve moved the title under her giant hat (where her name is) and put her name in a smaller font under the title.
Now a husband pleaser. Jinger…wake up.
Her pre-release is already ranked # 274 in "TV Show" books on Amazon. Some folks are ready to read more from her.
Grain of salt, but just based on my limited experience the hometown = where you currently live thing isn’t too uncommon when it comes to book promotion because publishers/publicists are often thinking of places where you can easily promote books as a “local author,” and that’s almost always the place where you live for practical reasons. I published a couple of books and definitely was listed as a local Los Angeles author as well because I live here now as opposed to where I grew up. On the flip side, someone I know who now lives my hometown (i.e., where I grew up) recently published a book and their hometown was listed as that place even though they grew up in another state.
Another book? For what?!?
People still wear hats like that? I thought they stopped being trendy years pre-pandemic
Fundies are probably ten years behind on trends.
It's not unusual for someone to change their place of origin. Many think that they cannot be taken seriously, especially on the East or West Coast, if one is known as coming from someplace like Arkansas or Alabama.🐖🐄