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Saturday Book Review Round-Up

Taylor Bright wrote 6 days ago: Maud NewtonStephen King reviews Raymond Carver’s biography and a collection of short stories. … more →

Tags: Books, back matter, Stephen King, Walt Whitman, Michael Crichton, Günter Grass, Andrew Motion, John Banville, zadie smith

No Mercy for Mothers

The House Bitch wrote 2 weeks ago: I recently finished reading The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr, a fascinating tale of the author … more →

Tags: mothering, Parenting, Literature, Mother, Motherhood, Family, Women, The Liar's Club, Mary Karr

Signed Books

alisonkn wrote 3 weeks ago: One of my favorite things about working at BookPeople is getting to meet authors and have them sign … more →

Tags: Signed Books, Alton Brown, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, dan chaon, Jen Yates, John Besh, judy shepard, Madeleine Albright, Michael Chabon

Homer, Langley, and a Half-Broke Horse

Megan Shaffer wrote 4 weeks ago: QUICKIE REVIEWS There are a couple of books that I’ve recently finished which are listed below with … more →

Tags: Authors, Book Reviews, E. L. Doctorow, - Quickie Reviews -, Homer & Langley, Half Broke Horses, Homer&Langley, Fiction, Megan Shaffer

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

JK wrote 1 month ago: It’s a running joke that there’s never any food in my parents’ house. My mother la … more →

Tags: JK's Reviews, Non-Fiction, American, memoir, KIRBC RECOMMENDED

** Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (2009)

bean's book blog wrote 1 month ago: I’m intrigued by the words “true-life novel” on the cover of this book.  I get tha … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, American West, Book Review, Books, Family, the glass castle

KimN ~ The Glass Castle3 comments

KimN wrote 1 month ago: The Glass Castle ~ Jeannette Walls I’ve had a few people recommend this book to me and I don … more →

Tags: True Story, it's on a list, Non-Fiction, memoir

Book Review: The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls2 comments

wolfshowl wrote 2 months ago: Summary: Jeannette Walls, a successful writer for MSNBC, hid the real story of her childhood for yea … more →

Tags: Review, Book Review, child abuse, book, the glass castle, memoir, Alcoholism, child neglect

Book Talk Vol. 7

shelbiemmoore wrote 2 months ago: Hello Loves! Welcome to Book Talk Volume 7! It’s the 4th of September and guess what? My senio … more →

Tags: School, Book Talk Volumes, Genres, Adult, Non-Fiction, Shelbie Moore, the glass castle, John Taylor, AP-Lit

The Glass Castle: Read this book!3 comments

EMUjournalist wrote 2 months ago: This book had been on my reading list for eons.  Jeannette Walls writes the memoir of her complicate … more →

Tags: Think About It, Books, book, Review, Childhood, the glass castle, Book Review, memoir

Meritocracy: the big conspiracy (part the 987th)

panoptici wrote 3 months ago: This week I read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and I don’t need to bore you with my thoughts because … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, meritocracy, Comment, Malcolm Gladwell

40 Events To Celebrate 40 Years of Bookselling

Titcomb's Bookshop wrote 4 months ago: Andrew Clements Jeannette Walls Richard Russo Wally Lamb Titcomb’s Bookshop is celebrating it … more →

Tags: Andrew Clements, Author visits, book tour, Books, Cape Cod, independent bookstores, Richard Russo, Titcomb's Bookshop, Wally Lamb

"The Glass Castle"

austinmccann wrote 5 months ago: I am almost done reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. In the great memoir by Walls, she reco … more →

Tags: Books, the glass castle, Kevin Roose, unlikely disciple, Liberty University

Smells Like Horses ...

S&Co. wrote 5 months ago: Jeannette Walls’s forthcoming book (October) is entitled Half Broke Horses. Oh no! Not horses! … more →

Tags: Books, Opinion, Half Broke Horses

just to burn things down.

moreprivate wrote 6 months ago: Blahhhh. I am in between my reading assignments for the last English project of the year! Yes! Final … more →

Tags: Life, Future, drugs, School, Essay, Adderall, summer, Finals, English

Favorite Books to Recommend1 comment

bookgoddess wrote 6 months ago: Recommending books is my business, or at least part of my business, and it can be a wonderful thing. … more →

Tags: Audiobooks, Books, Fiction, Literature, readers, Reading, Reading Lists, a spot of bother, alan bennett

BookCase

vee1987 wrote 9 months ago: There’s a new Book Case entry. The Glass Castle is a memoir by and of Jeannette Walls. … more →

Tags: memoir, the glass castle

book review: the glass castle.

ledeluge wrote 9 months ago: “I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out th … more →

Tags: Books, Reviews

Want to Write a Memoir? First Read THE GLASS CASTLE: A MEMOIR3 comments

Faye Quam Heimerl wrote 9 months ago: Dear Reader, Because there are thousands of The Glass Castle reviews, I ask you to go elsewhere to r … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Editing, writing, memoir, multi-dimensional characaters, nonfiction, rex walls, rose mary walls, the glass castle


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