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For everyone who has read Half Broke Horses, I hope that you've also read -- or will read -- The Glass Castle, also by Jeanette Walls.
Chronologically, Half Broke Horses comes first, but The Glass Castle was written quite a bit before.
Half Broke Horses is a fictional account -- although based on her memories and stories told within the family -- but The Glass Castle is HER own story; her memoir. I read The Glass Castle when it first came out and will remember it always. It's incredible. What she endured is unfathomable.
I totally agree. I really enjoyed Half Broke Horses. But The Glass Castle takes the cake. She is a very talented writer and when she is writing about herself she is in her top form. She allows the reader to feel what she is feeling. It's more than just peeking into her experiences....it's almost like living them with her.
I totally agree. I really enjoyed Half Broke Horses. But The Glass Castle takes the cake. She is a very talented writer and when she is writing about herself she is in her top form. She allows the reader to feel what she is feeling. It's more than just peeking into her experiences....it's almost like living them with her.
I disagree, I liked The Glass Castle but I loved Half Broke Horses. TGC was very disturbing and hard to read in some parts. I kept wanting her to pass judgement on her parents; she seemed strangely distant from them in the book, especially at the end. But seemingly that was intentional. I read an interview with her and it sounded like she repressed a lot of her feelings from her childhood. That she doesn't think there's anything wrong with how she was raised. (Sorry if I'm spoiling anything for people who haven't read it)
Half Broke Horses was amazing all the way through, I loved every second of it.
I disagree, I liked The Glass Castle but I loved Half Broke Horses. TGC was very disturbing and hard to read in some parts. I kept wanting her to pass judgement on her parents; she seemed strangely distant from them in the book, especially at the end. But seemingly that was intentional. I read an interview with her and it sounded like she repressed a lot of her feelings from her childhood. That she doesn't think there's anything wrong with how she was raised. (Sorry if I'm spoiling anything for people who haven't read it)
Half Broke Horses was amazing all the way through, I loved every second of it.
My husband read Half-Broke Horses and loved it - me too - and so I bought The Glass Castle, which I hadn't read and still haven't, and hubby read that one too, and he loved it more than Half-Broke Horses. He kept reading and laughing outloud but we didn't discuss it as that would be a spoiler since I haven't yet read it.
For everyone who has read Half Broke Horses, I hope that you've also read -- or will read -- The Glass Castle, also by Jeanette Walls.
Chronologically, Half Broke Horses comes first, but The Glass Castle was written quite a bit before.
Half Broke Horses is a fictional account -- although based on her memories and stories told within the family -- but The Glass Castle is HER own story; her memoir. I read The Glass Castle when it first came out and will remember it always. It's incredible. What she endured is unfathomable.
I've read both of those and "The Glass Castle", which prompted me to read about her Grandma, will always remain one of my favorites.
I started reading Meredith Baxter's memoir Untied this afternoon. I'm nearly half way through it.
I've always liked her as an actress and the fact that she looks just like my sister makes that "like" even stronger. She and Michael Gross in Family Ties have always reminded me of my sister and brother-in-law.
The book is good. It's very much like having a chat with her over coffee. She is very forthright in telling her story. She is like the rest of us and is not squeaky clean. That makes her more interesting. I don't want to experience perfect people.
Things are starting to get a bit rough now. She and David Birney are at the stage of filming "Bridget Loves Bernie" and he is already being a bit selfish.
I think jeanette walls prob did not see anything wrong with being raised the way she was because she did not know anything else as a child . Omg that book had me wanting to call cps on her parents myself LOL !!! back then when she and I both were raised there was no set standard and that was not considered neglect it was a family matter . Yes folks back in the 40s and 50s things that went on btwn parents and kids was a family matter and you simply did not stick your nose where it did not belong . and if parents whipped their kids in public it was considered good parenting .oh my how things have changed .
Im in the middle of "Counterculture Green", which is about Whole Earth Catalogue and its sister publications, and the "alternative technology' movement relations to it.
This is an interesting book as it talks about Stewart Brand, sure, but also other folks involved with that whole scene, like J Baldwin and Peter Warshall and others who I hadnt heard of. I'm in the middle of the chapter on the Point Foundation, which is where the money from the catalogue sales went.
To some degree this book is, for me, an exercise in nostalgia as I recall this stuff from my younger days (I was 10 years old 1969, when the first Whole Earth Catalogue came out). This book explains how this practical environmentalism came out of the 1960s counterculture and then into mainstream society in the 1970s. So, a bit of "1970s nostalgia" in reading it, even though its not a light reading "remember when" kind of book.
I still have Rebecca going on audio cd, and I started A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving last night. I finished Oliver Twist yesterday, and I did enjoy the ending. Like all Dickens' works, it takes me a long time to get into them, but I ultimately like them all.
In the middle of the latest in the Change series by SM Stirling - The High King of Montival
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(Sorry if I'm spoiling anything for people who haven't read it)
