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...
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...
She Left Me the Gun by Emma Brockes is an examination of what it's like to be the child of a survivor. As in Speigelman's Maus, Brockes traces the events of her parent's life to make sense of events that occurred in her own. A well-written and fast-moving account, this book traces Emma Brockes journ...
Amazing! There were parts of this book that hit home with me and I commend the author for her honesty. Jeannette’s life was full of ups and downs as she traveled with her family following her parent’s dreams. With a bottle of booze in one hand and the fear of the mob tracking him down, Dad had a ...
Jeannette Walls was incredibly brave to tell such an honest version of her childhood that was poor but rich in adventure, heartbreaking but often humorous, and highly dysfunctional but surrounded with loving siblings. The Glass Castle tells the true story of the Walls family upbringing, consisting ...
The subtitle for this book could be 'When Two Completely Insane People Decide to Reproduce.' Jeannette Walls reveals all in this memoir of her life with nomadic parents who hold . . . umm, unusual values. The fact that at least three children were able to escape the cycle of alcoholism and irrespons...
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