This book made me feel a lot. Some parts made me angry or sad for the situations they were in and then other parts I could feel the love. I like how the author told the good and the bad. She seemed to try to just keep it real.
I don't understand all of the positive reviews on this book. The writing style killed me. There were not a lot of stopping points or page breaks so the story seemed to be one long stream of consciousness that went on forever. The sentence structure was not complex, and the sentences very short and m...
To say that Walls had an unusual childhood would be a massive understatement. She didn't have any of the stability with a roof over her head or meals to eat that most children in the US take for granted, but she did have some amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to do things that many of us will...
To say that Walls had an unusual childhood would be a massive understatement. She didn't have any of the stability with a roof over her head or meals to eat that most children in the US take for granted, but she did have some amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to do things that many of us will...
I enjoyed this. I got pretty into it, cheering for Jeannette and her siblings throughout the book.The mom annoyed me, always saying she needed to stop living for others and take care of herself when that's all she ever did and she had 4 children to take care of. And the dad taking money from his own...
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 ...
All right, hold onto your pants while I take you on this review. I picked this book up for $1 at the thrift store after reading the back of the book. Here is what it says: “The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysf...
This book caused me to run the full gamut of conflicting emotions. It was extremely difficult to read at times, as I'd experienced a profound sadness and anger for the deplorable circumstances of which Jeannette and her siblings had no control. To have the ability (and courage) to lay out her histor...
Die beiden Schwestern Bean, 12 Jahre, und ihre ältere Schwester Liz, sind oft auf sich alleine gestellt. Doch das stört sie nicht, denn sie können gut auf sich aufpassen. Ihre Mutter hat in ihrem Leben nur Platz für ihre Träume, nur wenig für ihre Töchter. Deshalb wundern sich Bean und Liz nicht, al...
Incredible, darkly compelling read. Cringeworthy moments of childhood on the edge. People can definitely be forced to survive through a lot more than one would think possible. And here it goes once again... Parenting should be a licenced occupation so that no patently idiotic couples would torture t...
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