I finally was able to put this book down, but only because I finished it. Bastards tells the story of Mary Anna King's family, one where sisters are given away on a regular basis and adults are unreliable at best, crazy or drunken at worst. King's strong voice carries you through the stories she hoa...
42. THE GLASS CASTLE, BY JEANNETTE WALLSThis one was recommended by everybodysomething on Tumblr, Michelle Ruedin on Goodreads and two other people in real life. After that, I had no choice but to read it...I’m not a big fan of nonfiction, so it was a big surprise to me how much I enjoyed this book....
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...
In this memoir, Jeanette Walls tells the story of her childhood, travelling America with her highly intelligent, yet dysfunctional parents. Her mother was an artist and shunned any suggestion of 'normal' life within four permanent walls. Her father was a vibrant character when sober, who taught his ...
Jeannette Walls could rewrite the telephone book and make the information funny and interesting. She has VOICE, as my English teachers would say, and it's a voice I love to read. It's interesting how a book that deals with so many disturbing, sad situations can be so funny! Walls certainly has a t...
Oh, this started out so well. I was mesmerized for the first two or three CDs. We've got the tough older sister watching out for the thoughtful younger sister because the mom can't really do the mothering thing. We've got a trip cross-country to see a barely-known uncle. We've got smart moves and ne...
This is the most disturbing coming-of-age story I ever read. And I read "Flowers in the attic".Everybody likes to talk beautifully about this book on how the Walls family portrayed in it were able to raise smart, non-consumerist, independent, strong, fear-overcoming kids who later succeeded in life....
Here is what I find amazing - that Jeannette Walls could write so freaking objectively about her parents. This is a story of a not great and often horrific childhood, brought upon four children by two negligent parents, and yet it was described quite matter-of-factly, with the parents described not...
Recently I've been studying life writing as part of my creative writing course, so decided I wanted to read something of that genre to give me a keener sense of what I'm trying to achieve. Unfortunately from this point of view, this particular book didn't really fulfill that. The main reason for tha...
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