Bitter Harvest : A Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice

Rating:
Summary: Referring to the abridged audiobook - Not Very Good
Review: This is my first True Crime book ever and an audiobook at that, but I was very disappointed by the experience and if I hadn't been trapped in the car with the choice of listening to PBS interview some flute player from blabistan or these tapes I would never have made it through.

First of all, the writing is pretty sad.

"Deborah is a vivacious funny woman with a great sense of humor,
but she was prone to fits of rage, but she was a good mother, but she used the kids as a wedge against mike, but she was an alcoholic, but they both stuck together never really knowing why they got married in the first place....." Seriously, it goes on like that for pages and pages.

Second, the lady reading the book, I forget her name, is a bit of a stuffed shirt, sort of like the lady interviewer on PBS radio and the one really funny moment in the book is :

"Deborah was an articulate speaker who was always the life of the party, but she was an introvert prone to fits of rage where she would use profanity such as A-hole and F-hole" when the narrator had to swear it clearly was uncomfortable for her and the result was so funny I laughed so hard I had to rewind.

Anyway, it pretty much fell on its face and the worst part of it all, is we never find out what really happened for sure because its a true story and nobody knows the answer.

Rating:
Summary: held my interest until the end
Review: This isn't one of Ann's best but is still very good. Dr. Debora Green was, in my opinion, either under the influence of drugs /and or alcohol if she really did set fire to her beautiful house, killing two of her three children. I'm not excusing her, according to this book she didn't make a very desirable wife or mother, but this didn't give her husband an excuse to cheat on her. Dr. Green was supposedly a brilliant woman, but on her wedding night she supposedly chose to retire with a book. This sounds almost like me. I SAID ALMOST! I believe there really is a fine line between genius and insanity. I love Ann's books, but in this one she seems to take the side of the adulterous husband, who should have just left if he didn't want his family anymore. Some people have the psychological makeup that causes them to snap under extreme pressure, especially when they are substance abusers. I hear
Dr. Green may be getting a new trial, due to the discovery of new evidence. I hope she is proved innocent, if only for the sake of her remaining daughter, Kate.