This book is exactly what it promised to be: a fictionalized memoir, based on the author's oral family history. It follows the author's grandmother's life story, which was a somewhat adventurous one. The story, like all good family histories, has the unmistakable elements of the tall tale (or as my ...
From Goodreads: Lily Casey Smith, this novel's feisty Texas protagonist, is a frontier teacher, a rancher, a rodeo rider, a poker player, and bootlegger. In Half Broke Horses, she survives droughts, tornados, floods, poverty, and whatever else fate can throw against her. Based on author Jeannette Wa...
What an amazing life Lily Casey lived. The novel hooked me from page one with Jeannette’s storytelling of Lily’s life growing up in west Texas. Lily is Jeannette’s grandmother and through a variety of resources, Jeanette’s gives this special tribute to her grandmother by writing a book about this ...
A follow-up to The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls now writes the story of her maternal grandmother. This book sucked me in really quickly, but unfortunately only for about half of the novel and then the pace slowed considerably. While very well-written and a solidly GOOD book, it didn't have the p...
Probably closer to 3.5 stars, but since I wish Lily was my grandmother, I feel generous.A historical memoir, which I'm reluctant to call non-fiction, because it's a third party story. Jeannette remember Lily, but got the stories through her own mother (daughter of Lily), and embellishes it to give ...
The last third felt a bit rushed, but this was a fast, fascinating, easy read. A "true-life novel", Walls decisions to write in first person as her own grandmother was a brave one, but it panned out for her here in Half Broke Horses.
This is a fictional story based on the real life events of Walls' grandmother Lily. Lily is strong, brave, bold, and works hard. She faced many hardships and heartaches, but continued on in her quest to explore life and find a place for herself as a woman during the early 20th century in the West....
Here's one of those books I thought I'd have to force myself to read for book club, but I was really surprised at the speed I turned the pages at.Lily is quite a character. One that has you wondering what in the heck she'll do next. While I liked the story, I had a hard time with the relationship be...
This real-life novel of Lily Casey Smith, the grandmother of the author, recounts her adventure-filled life growing up on a horse ranch, teaching in one-room schoolhouses, going for her high school diploma in big-city Chicago, and eventually becoming the wife of a rancher and raising her two childre...
Oh, oops. I forgot to review this, and now it's been kind of a while since I read it. And because of that, I probably can't write a very detailed review. But, I don't have much to criticize anyway.For those of you who don't know, Jeannette Walls is also the author of the popular memoir The Glass Cas...
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