The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780739458211 (0739458213)
Publish date: January 1st 2005
Publisher: Scribner
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Family,
Contemporary,
Biography Memoir,
Social Issues,
Poverty
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...
3 years ago
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