Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

83 reviews

everythingisokai's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This was a really great memoir. Jeannette Walls writes from the perspective she had at the time so it starts with child naivety about her parents and gradually she grows up and realises how neglectful and irresponsible they are. That means it's not a reflective memoir but more a collection of stories which span her childhood and early adulthood. Walls does a brilliant job at conveying her love for her family alongside her disappointment and anger at the choices they made. There are quite a few amusing anecdotes but the reality of her confusing, traumatic childhood comes through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

ariana_danielle's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Incredible story about a woman who despite her dysfunctional background, became a successful person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Fire/Fire injury

_kathill's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

hannahsk's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

redheadorganist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

library_of_al's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Bullying and Abandonment

leseine's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

terrific. i love the stories that she chose and the moments that we get a look into. I love stories about families that are imperfect erring on the side of toxic and children that get out. It's not pretty and a lot of it is difficult to hear/read about but it is incredible and it lives up to how popular it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Mental illness and Death of parent

mangocorpses's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Medical content, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism