dont move--who read the glass castle? UPDATE

The book was amazing. I read it in two days







I am meeting with the author next week and wont have time to read it.

HELP

Want everyone to go now and get the book RANDOM FAMILIES

you will LOVE it

Curliegirl---I am givng you my copy

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I did!!! I LOVED LOVED LOVED that book. There's a thread on storyboard about it...I posted on it so I remember, but I don't know if the book itself was talked about or just how much everyone loved it.

Message edited 7/6/2007 1:53:33 PM.

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Jeannette Walls's memoir revolves around her parents, who give the concept of bad parenting a whole new meaning. Her irresponsible romantic of a father was an inventor of outlandishly useless devices, and her mother, an artist, was his abettor. As the two of them dragged the family around the country on the run from creditors and from one bad idea to another, they virtually ignored their four hapless children, except when they were giving them shoplifting lessons or stealing their money for booze. Walls writes about these years with a hardheaded, clear-eyed acceptance and very little recrimination, and she doesn't neglect her parents' virtues, which she manages to wrest out of the slag heap: their values were both generous and idealistic, they produced self-reliant children, and they were true originals.

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OMG Nancy, you HAVE to read it!!!!!

It is by far one of the tope 3 books I have ever read.

Once you pick it up, it'll take you a day to read.

I'm so jealous you get to meet Jeannette Walls, tell her I said she's amazing.

ETA, noit to make you feel bad, but if you read it after you meet her, you might kick yourself......

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You have to read it -- it's a great book!

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It's an amazing book and she is an incredible person. I went to a discussion she gave at Cold Spring Harbor and was so impressed by her.
After reading what she went through, her ability to forgive is amazing. Her mom lives in a trailer on her property now and she takes care of her. She said her mom is so much better now and she has a couple of funny stories related to the book.
I highly recommend the book...

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omg--this was the best book ever!!!

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i heard they are making it into a movie!!

Re: dont move--who read the glass castle? UPDATE

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I thought it was ok - an interesting read.

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Posted by jxnoscar

The book was amazing. I read it in two days







I am meeting with the author next week and wont have time to read it.

HELP

Want everyone to go now and get the book RANDOM FAMILIES

you will LOVE it

Curliegirl---I am givng you my copy

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It was an incredible book!! I couldnt put it down

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I loved it. I thought she was so witty.

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OMG this book was amazing. i literally read it all in one day... 6 hours straight--- i oculdnt' put it down.

although her family was so nuts... really her parents were child abusers in my opinion, her memoir was so warm andd touching and you could see what she did love about them although they were so nuts. it was amazing to see them persevere through all that craziness.

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I have it at home - must get started on it

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I loved it!