Review: The Glass Castle

I finally started reading The Glass Castle the other day and I am glad so far. I have only read about the first 50 pages and so far it is really good. Jeanette seems like a child in a family that is very free! They are constantly on the run from bill collectors and her parents don't seem to pay much attention to rules or watching after their children closely. First Jeanette burns herself horribly and then later she falls out of the car (her parents returned for her after quite a drive!). Her father is an alcoholic - verbally abusive at times but also loving at others.

So far I haven't decided what my opinion is on her parents' upbringing - are the negligent or hippies??

New Book: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

We've started a new book! Well at least I have. I keep asking Leslie if she has and she keeps saying no. I'm sure she'll pick it up and finish it in one day, but for now, I'm steadily reading along. We'll see how it goes!

From Amazon: "In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets."