The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Author - Jeannette Walls ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Kindle Edition eBooks item from Scribner was reviewed on 11-Oct-2008.

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1) Kindle Edition eBooks The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Scribner. I love reading about disfunctional families because I come from one. Jeanette´s mom in this book was an exagerated version of my own mother. Never did the author get smarmy or wallow in self-pity. Instead it was easy to see the humor in all the incredible childhood memories. I felt I was living them with her.¤

2) Kindle Edition eBooks The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Scribner. I thought this book was brilliant. I didn´t know too much about it and I took a chance on reading it. I´m so glad I did. It was very moving and powerful. I can relate to parts of Jeannette´s childhood and I she really tugged at my heartstrings. Reading about her determination was inspiring and really makes you see how important it is to be the best person and parent you can be for your children.¤

3) Kindle Edition eBooks The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Scribner. (This review contains spoilers.)

This book was recommended to me by a number of friends and colleagues. I was initially excited to read it, and as the book went on and the family situation became more dire, it grew hard to read. All along, the quality of the writing and the consistency of the author´s even-handed reportorial voice made the book worth giving a 4 or 5-star review. It´s not really a flaw of the book that it´s a struggle to read about children not having enough to eat, not going to school on a regular basis, not having health care, and living at the whim of their alcoholic and mentally ill parents. Nevertheless I had to force myself to read the middle of the book, which muted some of this amazing story´s impact. It may have been my incredulity at the author and her siblings´ seeming to let their parents off the hook too easily and not appearing to confront them or try to change their lives until they were nearly adults. Unlike some of the negative reviewers, I do believe that this is a true story. And it is has been meticulously and beautifully told. As the story neared its conclusion, I was glad to have stuck it out to witness the resilience of (most of) the children as they became adults and the way that they were able to individuate from their now homeless and ne´er do well parents.¤

4) Kindle Edition eBooks The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Scribner. kept me interested from start to finish- we read it for our book club everyone loved it !

very interesting life and great ending!¤

5) Kindle Edition eBooks The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Scribner. While I found the children of the Wells family to be sympathetic characters and I applaud their perserverance to achieve against all odds, I also found the book tedious reading in spots.

I feel that it was written more as a catharsis for the author rather than entertainment for the reader. However, I do admire her loyalty to parents who deserved none.¤

6) Kindle Edition eBooks The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Scribner. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette´s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children´s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn´t want the responsibility of raising a family. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing -- a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar, but loyal, family. Jeannette Walls has a story to tell, and tells it brilliantly, without an ounce of self-pity.¤

7) Kindle Edition eBooks The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Scribner. Jeannette Walls´s father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there´s perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls´s childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls´ removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents´ knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover. --Brangien Davis¤

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