"Great Insight into Family Dynamics"When my book club chose this book, I wasn't very pleased. We'd read Jeannette Wall's memoir The Glass Castle and her mother's horrible parenting infuriated me. Therefore, I wasn't sure I wanted to read the story about Jeannette's maternal grandmother Lily in "Half...
I loved The Glass Castle and was ready for more with Jeannette Walls second book. Unfortunately, I just couldn't get into this one. It seemed incredibly stale and lacking the powerful truth of her debut novel. I'm glad others enjoy it, because I do think she is a wonderful author. I just couldn't co...
Jeannette Walls tells the story of her grandmother, Lily, in this book. Lily helped her father break horses, she rode five hundred miles on her pony at age fifteen to get to her teaching job, and she learned how to drive a car as well as fly a plane. She raised two children on a ranch she ran with h...
Wow! How would you like to have a grandmother who had been a bootlegger, poker player, mustang breaker and racehorse rider, in addition to filling the more conventional roles of mother of two, schoolteacher, and ranch wife? This book tells the story of the interesting life of the author's grandmot...
What a cool thing to write in the voice of your grandmother. Sometimes we can't fully understand who we are until we know who came before us and in this case it was interesting to see how Jeannette Walls' mother was raised and how she came to be the mother who horrified readers of The Glass Castle. ...
Huge disappointment. She just assembled a pile of lazy cliched stories about pioneer women in the old days, and then toughing out it in the depression etc, called it a book.
I read this book a while ago and I think I gave it two stars because I had a really difficult time with the writing of the book. I can't remember if it was a bit too "artsy" or dry for me. I do remember enjoying the story though and that is what kept me interested and able to finish the book.
I could not get attached to the characters int his book. My main issue was I felt like an outside observer and I felt like there was no emotion, that it was told more like a news story. The only time I felt attached to the story was re the little sister issue. But wow, did this lady have a life! ...
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