I wasn't as enamored with this book as most people seem to be. Maybe I'm callous and jaded, or maybe the true depth of Jeannette's and her family's suffering did not come across in the narrative. Her writing seemed so detached from the events that sometimes I had to remind myself that the things s...
The authorJeannette Walls is a writer and journalist. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona on the first of January 1960. She graduated with honors from Barnard College, the women's college affiliated with Columbia University. She published a bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005. The book is bei...
This memoir tells the story of the Walls family -- with the boisterous, oftentimes drunken dad; the free-spirited, artist mother; and the four children who, as they grow, come to realize that their constantly moving, often-starving, proud-to-a-fault family is not "normal" and that there are better w...
I read this book in a day. Originally I was suppose to read it back in November for my book club but had just gotten around to it and I'm so glad I did. It was written in such a way that you grew with the author. You knew her parents weren't doing what they should have been doing to raise their four...
Jeannette Walls grew up with her alcoholic father who believes everything is a conspiracy and her artist mother, who has a teaching degree. They put themselves first before their kids. The parents make me angry, so I’ll leave it at that.It is a great book, though. I’m glad she never gave up because ...
I enjoyed this true story about two ""unconventional"" parents raising their children in squalid poverty by choice. Does this constitute abuse or not? I'm not sure. Many parts are horrifying while other parts are heart-warming. Hmmm.....this story makes you think.
Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle: A Memoir is a book rife with the experiences of a woman who grew up with two parents who were, from this layperson's view, certainly mentally ill. In the tradition of Frank McCourt, Walls shares her tale of growing up in this family, where there is certainly no fun...
A fascinating book. I knew absolutely nothing about Jeannette Walls before picking up this book, and had actually gotten the impression that it was fiction rather than a memoir.But despite not knowing who Jeannette Walls is, and therefore not having any expectations whatsoever, I soon found myself d...
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