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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

80 reviews

mangocorpses's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

narbine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Transphobia, Alcohol, Classism, Gaslighting, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content, Child death, Abandonment, Animal death, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual content, Stalking, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Infidelity, Misogyny, Excrement, Gaslighting, Racism, and Dysphoria

rainerasnic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Rape, Alcohol, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Sexual harassment

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

this was such a devastating memoir. i loved how the voice throughout most of the story aged as the story progressed. the beginning has such a child-like voice which adds to how you feel for the author and what she went through. this was a hard but rewarding read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Medical content, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Sexism, Bullying, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Racism, and Sexual assault

mini_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Violence, Rape, and Cursing

Moderate: Racism, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Body shaming, and Car accident

ksheaffs's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Abandonment

Moderate: Sexual assault

thehmkane's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Incest, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, and Racism

machenn's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Death, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

mirajuliee's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

4.0

i do not even want to rate this book because it is such a horrible, heartbreaking  and emotional story. i loved the writing style of the author, she somehow captured every little detail in a way, that you don’t want to stop reading this book. it makes you mad and sad at the same time thinking it was all reality while instantly appreciating your own life a whole lot more.  i’m so glad there was a rather happy end to this shocking life story but i don’t think i’ll read it ever again because it has many graphic triggers and gross details. it affected me a lot emotionally, i’ll definitely think about this one a lot. 

(also, and i don’t know if this was just my version of the book but it had tons of spelling mistakes/random misplaced letters which distracted a lot while reading) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, and Racial slurs

Minor: Animal death

_desreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

The Glass Castle is modern classic in the memoir genre, so not much intro is needed in the bookish world. Jeannette Walls relives her nomadic, broken, yet incredibly creative and endearing childhood. Centered around her father’s drinking habit and distrust for anything connected to the government and her mother’s need to be a creator and artist above all else, Jeannette and her three siblings travel across the country searching for a place to call home, yet always seem to find a reason to move on, usually without notice in the middle of the night. When they finally “settle” into a shack with no electricity or pumping in West Virginia, all of Jeannette’s experience with survival will be put to the test as her and her siblings try and not only find their next meal, but find a way out of this life. 

Walls writes a gripping and, at many moments heartbreaking, retelling of her childhood and how she eventually became a successful writer in New York City. If you want a grid for comparison, I think it is a mix of Nowhere Girl, Educated and Fierce Attachments. Not a light read but one that will linger in your heart and invite you to reflect on how varied our pasts can be to bring us into who we are today.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, and Drug use