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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

37 reviews

addanumlaut's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

jeanette writes about her childhood in such a way that you almost forget she's experienced these things and she's not a character in a dramatic fiction story. her writing voice is so distinct and enrapturing that i couldn't help but keep reading, even during the hard sequences that made me pause. will definitely be re-reading at a slower and more thoughtful pace.

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jillianlovesbooks's review

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adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

this book was a ROLLERCOASTER. i honestly hated it until the very end, not because the writing was bad, i loved the writing, but just because the story just kept on getting worse and worse until the last 70 pages or so when I finally enjoyed reading it. Honestly even tho it was such an emotional read, i think everyone should give it it a try

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hannahnew's review

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challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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ronniereadsregularly's review

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challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

2.25

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stvnskp's review

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challenging emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

4.5

Amazing book about a truly heartbreaking upbringing.

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nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring fast-paced

5.0

What a powerful audiobook, read by the writer herself. Be prepared for basically every trigger warning in the book to happen in this one as these children lived a very hard life because of their parents. I cannot even fathom, after listening to this book, what that must have been like to grow up in.

As other reviewers have said, Walls does look at her past with rose-tinted glasses and does not tear down her parents. She tells us what they did, said, didn’t do that they should have done and let’s us the reader feel the anger for her. Which I thought was very tasteful of her, given what all her parents have put her family through.

Definitely one of the most powerful memoirs I’ve ever read. How they were able to save up money, budget at such a young age and be more of a responsible adult then both their parents to make it in New York. The strength of her and her siblings is truly incredible.

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