Flat broke with two goats

This is closer to a 2.5 for me but I rounded down because I spent a lot of time being annoyed by the author. It's entirely possible that I just wasn't the target audience for this book, but I also feel like the blurb lied about what this book was about and I never really got over it. The blurb makes it seem like it's a feel good book about how a woman found herself raising some goats. Far be it from me to tell someone else how to write their own memoir, but I wasn't expecting the bits about the domestic violence, and I don't think it was strictly necessary, and I also thought the recipes were unnecessary and somewhat out of place. I escaped from my violent husband with only my child and the clothes on my back, but here have a recipe for how to make some cajun shrimp.

For me, the book didn't start getting good until about 70% in, and by that point I think I was just so annoyed by the author that no matter what she did, it was going to annoy me. I understood the premise of the book was that they were poor and had these goats, but her talking about spending money on buying goat after goat while also lamenting that they only had $4.53 in their bank account just struck me as foolish. I completely understand being so poor that if you only spent money on bills, you'd lead a sad life. I get it. I guess I just wish she had some free hobbies. Or made more of an effort to get a job that paid her more.

I read this as part of the #biglibraryread and I'm glad that I did, because I probably would not have picked it up otherwise.