The Glass Castle

I just finished reading "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls. I heard about the book through WPTT-AM talk radio host Lynn Cullen. The book is part of the Allegheny County Library Association One Book One Community program.

I recommend this book to anyone. It tells the story of Jeannette Walls and her family as they move around the country and are basically homeless. Her parents would argue that they are homeless by choice. I haven't come down as to what I feel about the parents. Where they bad? Where they good? I can't make a judgement just yet, but I can say they were certainly excentric.

I'm not going to go into all of the details of the book, but I do recommend the book to you.

Here's a few of my biggest reactions to the book.
1) It amazes me how much Jeannette remembers from her childhood. Could any of us write in so much detail what Jeannette remembers? I really don't think I could. And especially after having been through so many experiences, would you be able to remember so much with so much detail?

2) Jeannette wrote something so very noteworthy to me. I guess I find it so interesting because I can realate so much to this, but never realized it. Jeannette joined her high school newspaper and loved it because she got to go and cover all the exciting events that happen when you're in high school. These are not normal events that she would have found herself attending because she felt out of place, but when she was there as a reporter, she felt a purpose and was about to be a part of the things that she once felt out-cast from being a part of. I wonder to myself if that's why I was so into my former journalism career. I look at the journalism world now and am sickened at what I see and am generally happy to not be a part of it.

Anyway, a very interesting book that will certainly make you think. Check it out.