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Reasons For Reading This Book: Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent was the  January  2024 book for The Readheads podcast book club. I had seen a review of this book by @halpreads so I figured that she recommended it to Margo to choose for January 2024. I was correct in this assumption as verified on the podcast. I had no prior knowledge about the book when I started it, I only knew that @halpreads gave it a high rating. I checked it out of the library and started reading it without reading the book’s description.   Content of This Book: Strange Sally Diamond was the nickname given to Sally Diamond by her classmates because she was, well strange. After following what she thought were the correct instructions from her father, to burn his dead body in the incinerator, Sally is swept into an investigation and a world outside of the isolated one she has been living in since childhood. Now everyone including the police, media and locals have an interest in her and her story...

Reason for Reading This Book: The Woman in Me by Britney Spears was the book of the month for December 2023 for the  The Readheads Podcast Book Club . This is the first time this book club has read a memoir. Outside of the book club I have read many celebrity memoirs this year and in years past. Because of the large amount of publicity that this book had leading up to its release, I had high expectations for it. I am on the younger side of the generation that experienced Britney Spears at the height of her pop-star fame. In recent years I have watched a couple of documentaries on the ‘Free Britney Movement’, so going into the book I was moderately familiar with her life and the conservatorship. I had high expectations for this book in both the information she would provide on her life and in the level of writing as it was written in collaboration with a ghost writer. I listened to this book as an audiobook which was read by Michelle Williams.   Content of This Book: Born...