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The Glass CastleJeannette Walls' spellbinding memoir of her childhood has become a national sensation, tranforming millions of readers around the country.Read More
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Half Broke HorsesFrom the author of The Glass Castle, a spellbinding true-life novel about Walls' grandmother--horse trainer, teacher, flapper, rancher, and pilot.Read More
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Rockbridge Weekly, February 24, 2010
...keynote remarks of Washington and Lee Universityâs seventh annual Tom Wolfe Weekend Seminar will be given by writer Jeannette Walls on Friday March 12, at 4 p.m. in Lee Chapel. This yearâs seminar, âHardship, Resilience, and the Art of the...
The Inter Mountain, February 13, 2010
...Clive Cussler; 'Knit the Season' and 'Knit Two' by Kate Jacobs; 'Half Broke Horses: A True-life Novel' by Jeannette Walls; 'A Friend of the Family' by Lauren Grodstein; 'The Lacuna' by Barbara Kingsolver; 'Rough Country' by John Sandford; 'The Help' by...
Resources Shelf, February 11, 2010
...on to the old model, and I fear that tablets are feeding that temptation. 6. Jeff Jarvis 7. Jeannette Walls 8. Paul LeClerc, president and CEO, New York Public Library It’s important to note that libraries have never been afraid of...
FortBendNow, February 9, 2010
...the library’s meeting room. The book to be discussed is “The Glass Castle,” a memoir by Jeannette Walls. Walls is a regular contributor to MSNBC.com, and enjoys a successful life in New York with her husband, who is also a writer. Considering...
Regina Leader-Post, February 6, 2010
...which is where would-be readers of Half Broke Horses would do well to start. Half Broke Horses, By Jeannette Walls, Scribner, 270 pages, $34...
New York Post, January 31, 2010
...about getting duped, and then feeling sorry for the person who’d duped you. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls It’s based on her grandmother life in the Old West, her struggle and her survival. It’s a very personal and beautiful book. EMAIL You...
San Jose Mercury News, January 10, 2010
...Jeannette Walls has a theme that's easy to summarize: Stop whining. She's gentle about it, and she has more to say on the topic than that, of course. But...
Huffington Post, January 8, 2010
...Jeannette Walls' new book seems to confirm that the gene for common sense skips generations in her family. Her mother, as millions of readers learned in "The Glass Castle," preferred...
West End Word, January 6, 2010
...Jeannette Walls surprised many in 2005 with the huge success of her memoir The Glass Castle. The book is a painfully honest account of her unusual childhood, a story of extreme...
Individual.com, January 2, 2010
...available in large print. Among them are "The Perfect Christmas" by Debbie Macomber and "Half Broke Horses" by Jeannette Walls. Programs being offered are: Frosty Readers will run through Jan. 19. Library staff challenges people to find library books...
St Louis Beacon, December 29, 2009
...at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. Free. Doors open at 6 p.m. Jeannette Walls will be at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd., at 7 p.m., Jan. 8 to discuss and sign her book 'Half Broke...
Zibb, December 29, 2009
...s inspirational Reading Lolita in Tehran and Barack Obama's rich and rewarding Dreams of My Father to Jeannette Walls' unforgettable Glass Castle and Elizabeth Gilbert's resonant memoir Eat Pray Love, Indigo's list of memorable life stories are tales of...
Canada NewsWire, December 29, 2009
...s inspirational Reading Lolita in Tehran and Barack Obama's rich and rewarding Dreams of My Father to Jeannette Walls' unforgettable Glass Castle and Elizabeth Gilbert's resonant memoir Eat Pray Love, Indigo's list of memorable life stories are tales of...
CNW Group via Yahoo!, December 23, 2009
...Brunt --------------- 8. Hush Hush, Becca Fitzpatrick --------- 9. Going Bovine, Libba Bray ------------ 10. Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls ----------------- For the ultimate do-it-yourself gift that's sure to please the technologically savvy...
National Post, December 21, 2009
...Barack Obama • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle • The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls • The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama Top 5 Hardcover Adult Fiction: • The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown • The Host, Stephenie Meyer...
St Louis Beacon, December 11, 2009
...30 p.m. Dec. 18. Lee Theater in the Touhill. Free. http://www.umsl.edu/~mfa or call 314-516-5590 Jeannette Walls will be at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd., at 7 p.m., Jan. 8 to discuss and sign her book 'Half Broke...
People's Daily Online, December 11, 2009
...&$ &$(China Daily Photo)&$ &$ HALF BROKE HORSES: A True-Life Novel By Jeannette Walls Scribner, $26. In her luminous memoir, “The Glass Castle,”Walls told of being raised by eccentric and unfit parents. Now, in a novel based on family...
Buffalo News, December 7, 2009
...There are Half Broke Horses of the human variety in Jeannette Walls new book of that nameWalls, her mother and her grandmother among them. All three are tough, intelligent, and often running on pluck, but it is Walls spirited grandmother who...
Washington Post, November 21, 2009
...revised manual offers 10 practice tests and loads of details and tips.139THE GLASS CASTLE (Scribner, $14)By Jeannette Walls. A daughter's memoir of her eccentric parents and unorthodox upbringing.11610THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CANMAKE A BIG...
Book Reporter, November 20, 2009
...Jeannette Walls, like her contemporaries Mary Gordon and Mary Karr, has lived a life of unfathomable pain and tragedy, yet has managed to use the hurt as inspiration for great literary...
Canton Repository, November 12, 2009
...invites readers to join in a discussion of the One Book, One Community choice, “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. Published in 2005, “The Glass Castle,” Ms. Walls’ memoirs of being raised in a dysfunctional family, was on the New York Times...
Canton Repository, November 6, 2009
...Public Librarys Adult Book Discussion Group will discuss the One Book, One Community choice, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls on Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. in the librarys second floor meeting room. This program is free and open to the public. The library is...
Metronews, November 2, 2009
...Half Broke Horses Author: Jeannette Walls Publisher: Scribner Price: $34 (Hardcover) American journalist Jeannette Walls rose to global acclaim with her 2005 memoir, The Glass Castle, a reflection on the pain she suffered at the...
Individual.com, October 29, 2009
...Wherever Jeannette Walls traveled to promote her 2005 memoir The Glass Castle -- and with more than 2 million copies sold she made plenty of stops -- fans would inevitably ask about...
Gloversville Leader-Herald, October 21, 2009
...Book discussion Foss said the library will host a book discussion on 'The Glass Castle: A Memoir' by Jeannette Walls at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 20. Police matters First Ward Councilwoman Cynthia Lakata reported the city Police Department in September had 872...
Washington Post, October 17, 2009
...HALF BROKE HORSES A True-Life Novel By Jeannette Walls Scribner. 272 pp. $26 It's a rare family memoir that packs all the power of a Charles Dickens novel. The adults must be as cruel as they are...
The List, October 16, 2009
...mum struggling to cope with having two babies in quick succession and beginning to harbour murderous thoughts. Orion. Jeannette Walls Half Broke Horses Based on the true life of the author?s maternal gran, it focuses on a woman who leaves home at 15 to...
Cleveland Live, October 11, 2009
...he was dragged by a horse for twenty-four miles." A century ago, not much intimidated Lily, either. Jeannette Walls bases her first novel, "Half Broke Horses," on the life of her grandmother, once again proving that the combination of gifted storyteller...
USA Today, October 7, 2009
...Readers often judge books by their covers, for better or worse. Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls' book about her grandmother Lily Casey Smith, is subtitled 'A True-Life Novel,' which presented challenges. Editors and designers went through several...
Culpepper Star Exponent, October 6, 2009
...Culpeper author Jeannette Walls? ?Half Broke Horses? hits bookstores today. The book can be purchased at cornershelfbookstore.com for $26. Book Review - Allison Brophy Champion/Community Columnist, » 0 Comments| Post a Comment...
Individual.com, October 6, 2009
...Casey Smith (1901-68) rules the unbridled West in "Half Broke Horses," a horse lover's novel by Jeannette Walls based on the true-life travels of her grandmother, a pioneering American. Publisher Simon and Schuster says...
News Sentinel, September 12, 2009
...this segment of Fort Wayne's history. ?Besides the ?Embassy' book, I recently read ?The Glass Castle,' by Jeannette Walls, which explains a life I could not have imagined. Her nomadic, homeless childhood, led by brilliant but unstable parents,...
Reader's Digest, September 12, 2009
...Hartlove Walls at home in Virginia with one of her animals. Just before The Glass Castle came out, Jeannette Walls remembers thinking, My story is terrifying. Nobody?s going to get it. But the public ?got? the mesmerizing tale of her hardscrabble...
Lafayette Daily Advertiser, September 6, 2009
...expects the biggest fall lineup in recent memory to 'lift the entire industry.' The lineup includes: n Sequels. Jeannette Walls' Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Oct. 6), Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing Part 6 of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to...
13WMAZ, September 5, 2009
...comes at the expense of another. The big names soak up the attention.' The fall lineup includes: ?Sequels: Jeannette Walls' Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Oct. 6), Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing ... Part 6 of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to...
Star Press, September 4, 2009
...who expects the biggest fall lineup in recent memory to 'lift the entire industry.'The lineup includes: Sequels. Jeannette Walls' Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Oct. 6), Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing Part 6 of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide...
KVUE News Online, September 4, 2009
...of the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin and author of the soon-to-be-released The Year of the Flood; Jeannette Walls, author of the best-selling memoir The Glass Castle and the forthcoming novel Half Broke Horses; and Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen...
USA Today, September 2, 2009
...comes at the expense of another. The big names soak up the attention.' The fall lineup includes: "Sequels: Jeannette Walls' Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Oct. 6), Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing & Part 6 of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to...
Concord Monitor, August 25, 2009
...debate or calls up the past in other ways. The Glass Castle, a memoir of her childhood by Jeannette Walls, generated strong feelings in one group about whether the quality of parenting could be better measured by how children are treated or by how they...
Daily Beacon Online, August 19, 2009
...issue Freshmen and faculty gathered Monday morning for a presentation by author Jeannette Walls on her book, 'The Glass Castle.' Walls' book was selected as the class of 2013's Life of the Mind book for its characters' struggles with this year's...
New Jersey Herald, August 13, 2009
...their inevitable end. Sparta's 'a tale for one city' summer reading choice is 'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls, a 2005 bestselling memoir. If the number of copies going around are any indication, there are dozens, perhaps hundreds, reading the book...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, August 12, 2009
...of Richmond The Front by Patricia Cornwell - John Jay College of Criminal Justice The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls - Eastern Kentucky University; University of Tennessee, Knoxville The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - Cornell University The Green...
Washington Post, August 4, 2009
...a Victorian-era children's book author isn't as perfect as it seems. -- 'Half Broke Horses,' by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, October). A 'true-life novel' from the author of 'The Glass Castle,' based on her grandmother's life...
Gazette Extra!, July 25, 2009
...Library System for a community book read. Residents can read â??Nickel and Dimedâ? and/or â??The Glass Castleâ? by Jeannette Walls and participate in discussions at local libraries this summer and fall. The group got the idea from a...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, July 17, 2009
...comments about specific titles they shared with us. 'Last month we read The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls. This book really makes you think about how resilient kids can be and how hard it is to work and overcome adversity. Even more so when...
CourierPostOnline.com, July 14, 2009
...such as poverty and mental illness. Students and community members are encouraged to read 'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls. 'The idea for this was generated by the English department,' said principal Santina Haldeman. 'A few of us have read it and...
CourierPostOnline.com, July 14, 2009
...such as poverty and mental illness. Students and community members are encouraged to read 'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls. 'The idea for this was generated by the English department,' said principal Santina Haldeman. 'A few of us have read it and...
NorthFortyNews, July 3, 2009
...is Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. in the library. We will be discussing 'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls. This book is an outstanding memoir of the Walls children growing up in extreme poverty that was overpowered by love and resilience. If you would like to...
Observer-Dispatch, June 26, 2009
...recommended for high school seniors studying memoirs ? alongside ?Chronicles,? by Bob Dylan, and ?The Glass Castle,? by Jeannette Walls ? administrators said they offer a variety of books to suit all abilities and comfort levels. Helaine...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, June 25, 2009
...me and we could really reconnect as mother and daughter. Wrong, big time. But as Pat Conroy and Jeannette Walls guided me, onward book soldier. I have a story and it's all mine to tell and share with you. I hope you will read it! I wrote this...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, June 23, 2009
...me and we could really reconnect as mother and daughter. Wrong, big time. But as Pat Conroy and Jeannette Walls guided me, onward book soldier. I have a story and it's all mine to tell and share with you. I hope you will read it! I wrote this...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, June 20, 2009
...me and we could really reconnect as mother and daughter. Wrong, big time. But as Pat Conroy and Jeannette Walls guided me, onward book soldier. I have a story and it's all mine to tell and share with you. I hope you will read it! I wrote this...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, June 20, 2009
...me and we could really reconnect as mother and daughter. Wrong, big time. But as Pat Conroy and Jeannette Walls guided me, onward book soldier. I have a story and it's all mine to tell and share with you. I hope you will read it! I wrote this...
San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 2009
...of secrecy in our lives and how 'admission' cuts both ways. Chef-co-owner of Jardinière 'The Glass Castle,' by Jeannette Walls (2006) An unbelievable true story that had me hooked from Page One. An engaging book that will hit home with everyone, in one...
Christian Science Monitor, June 1, 2009
...? ?The Children?s Book,? by A.S. Byatt ? ?Invisible,? by Paul Auster ? ?Half-Broke Horses,? by Jeannette Walls ? ?What the Little Dog Saw,? by Malcolm Gladwell ? ?The Big Burn,? by Timothy Egan ? ?How to Be a Movie...
PublishersWeekly.com, June 1, 2009
...them. Theres also Paul Auster [Invisible, Holt, Oct.], Nicholson Baker [The Anthologist, Simon & Schuster, Sept.], Jeannette Walls [Half-Broke Horses, Scribner, Oct.] and Barbara Kingsolver [The Lacuna, Harper, Nov.]. For nonfiction, forthcoming are...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, May 30, 2009
...rags to riches story in this expressive and heart warming memoir. At 304 pages, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, is a quick and satisfying read. Walls writes about the struggles she faced throughout her childhood. She details what it was like...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, May 29, 2009
... by Jeannette Walls A women shares her rags to riches story in this expressive and heart warming memoir. At 304 pages, , by Jeannette Walls, is a quick and satisfying read. Walls writes...
North County Times, April 22, 2009
...Group will meet next on May 11. The group will discuss 'The Glass Castle: A Memoir,' written by Jeannette Walls. The book club meets from 1 to 3 p.m. on the second Monday of each month at Temecula Public Library, 30600 Pauba Road. For information, call...
News Sentinel, April 21, 2009
...and ideals about architecture, and you will find that interesting, too. Then there?s ?The Glass Castle,? by Jeannette Walls. The opening episode has appeared in print several times because it is a grabber. And it leads to telling the story of what...
Star-Telegram, April 16, 2009
...the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes. Coming up next are The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. What they like about it: This is not a typical book club, and that?s exactly...
The Squamish Chief, April 11, 2009
...Public Library on Tuesday (April 14) from noon to 1 p.m., the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls will be reviewed. The Friends of the Library will meet at the Squamish Library on Thursday (April 16) at noon for approximately one hour. This group is...
Library Journal, April 10, 2009
...Audition, by Barbara Walters; Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult (local author); The Glass Castle: A Memoir, by Jeannette Walls; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer; In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan; The Lace Reader, by...
The Almanac.net, March 12, 2009
...For years, Jeannette Walls wrote about the lives of celebrities on MSNBC.com, in a column appropriately called 'Scoop,' and for New York magazine. She lived in New York City, rode in taxis...
Pretty Little Fings, January 7, 2010
...our communities and environment, via The Slow Movement ." the first book will be Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls. there will be an email group discussion on the 4th of March! that's like two months away! and will definitely give me enough time to...
All-Natural Mama, January 6, 2010
...recently read a couple of books that I think are worth mentioning here. They are both written by Jeannette Walls. The first is entitled "Half-Broke Horses" and is the fascinating life story of the author's grandmother, written as a...
twiddletails, January 5, 2010
...only read for about 30 minutes before I turn the light off at night. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls The Gravedigger's Daughter - Joyce Carol Oates The Help - Kathryn Stockett Blowfly - Patricia Cornwell Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout The...
*Felinofelice, January 5, 2010
...goal, especially when mixed with reading? The first book for the club will be Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls. A magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. We hope to...
*Felinofelice, January 5, 2010
...goal, especially when mixed with reading? The first book for the club will be Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls. A magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. We hope to...
JUST SAY MO, January 4, 2010
...Half Broke Horses , by Jeannette Walls Oh my. So excellent. I started reading this book in the car on the drive home to New Orleans from Texas. When it was my turn to drive (i...
My Life with a Crazy Puppy, January 2, 2010
...by Diane Ackerman The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins White Oleander by Janet Fitch The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls as many of the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich as I can fit in I think this list is very doable and gives me room to add more...
Printers Row, December 30, 2009
...armchair travel is great! Authors we’d most like to meet: Authors we’d most like to meet: Jeannette Walls , Pat Conroy , Wally Lamb , J.K. Rowling , Stephen King and Carl Hiassen .Worst excuse anyone’s given for not reading an assigned book:...
Kanlaon, December 23, 2009
...I Want It Lorrie Moore’s first novel in more than a decade, A Gate at the Stairs Jeannette Walls’ Half Broke Horses , a “novel based on family lore” Kate Walbert’s “exquisitely written novel” about “a British suffragist and a handful...
Scobberlotch (v.) to loaf around, doing nothing in, December 18, 2009
...bet this would be a great gift. I also just picked up Jeanette Walls' Half Broke Horses. Description: Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story...
Beth Kephart Books, December 15, 2009
...schedule afford me reading time, I've got Nothing to be Frightened of (Julian Barnes), Half Broke Horses (Jeannette Walls), The Piano Teacher (Janice Y.K. Lee), Something Must Happen (Ned Balbo), Eiffel's Tower (Jill Jonnes), The Perfect Square (Nancy M....
eclectic / eccentric, December 12, 2009
...List of 12 Alternates The Awakening by Kate Chopin Mansfield Park by Jane Austen The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton She by H. Rider Haggard Moby Dick by Herman Melville Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Dune by...
eclectic / eccentric, December 12, 2009
...Julia Alvarez The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Women Who Kill by Anne Jones The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Fiction Three Lives by Gertrude Stein Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Affinity by Sarah Waters...
Ben Casnocha: The Blog, November 17, 2009
...The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a marvel of a memoir: a remarkable story of a materially impoverished yet highly intellectual family, told in the humane and empathetic voice of one of the daughters...
Bookworm's Dinner, November 16, 2009
...Half Broke Horses A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls Scribner October 2009, 272 p. 978-1-4165-86289 Walls is shaping up to be one of this decades most fascinating storytellers. The adventures of her family in The Glass Castle were...
Between the Covers, November 13, 2009
...Jeannette Walls isn't the only author at Miami Book Fair International to be talking about a harrowing memoir of childhood. David Small and Jane Alison will both be there Saturday...
Between the Covers, November 10, 2009
...Jeannette Walls has a message for us: As times get harder, as they all too often do, we should all get back in touch with our tough old broad (or tough...
Random House, Inc. Library Services, November 9, 2009
...- I completely agree that it’s shocking to see such male domination. And they completely missed Jeannette Walls’ Half Broke Horses ( Scribner) and A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book ! What do you feel PW missed? Which female authors do...
Between the Covers, November 3, 2009
...Nov. 15 at the fair. If you've ever looked at the bestseller lists, you've seen the name Jeannette Walls: Her memoir The Glass Castle dominated for months. Now Walls is back with Half Broke Horses , a blend of fact and fiction - and a story based on the...
Literary Lotus, October 21, 2009
...like her most recent Table Manners under the name Mia King, I'm now getting ready to interview Jeannette Walls. She's the bestselling author of the memoir The Glass Castle , which I liked so much I gave it to a friend of mine to read while traveling in...
Luxury Reading, October 19, 2009
...top 200 books. When I checked today, Kathryn Stockett's The Help was available for $12.00 and Jeannette Walls' Half Broke Horses was a mere $13.00 (both books are in hardcover). Late on Thursday, Amazon responded to Wal-Mart's challenge by matching the...
Another Chance Ranch, October 7, 2009
...Okay - who wants my copy of The Glass Castle? That's right! I read Jeannette Walls' book titled The Glass Castle. It was such a good book that I didn't want it to end. I tried reading it really slow there towards...
Even grownups have fangirl moments, October 1, 2009
...September 2009 1. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (horror) 2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (biography) 3. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (mystery/thriller) 4. Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay (mystery/thriller) 5. Dexter By Design...
Reader's Digest, September 13, 2009
...Interview by Maureen Mackey...
Reading Group Guides Blog, August 27, 2009
...reading selection. Also in this month's round-up are profiles of two authors and book club favorites --- Jeannette Walls and Kris Radish, who is appearing tonight at Border Books in Sacramento, California. The Buffalo News : Glass Castle a Window on a...
Jenn's Bookshelves, August 25, 2009
...George Pelecanos Judy Blume Patrick Carman Rick Riordan John Grisham John Irving Katherine Neville Jodi Picoult Nicholas Sparks Jeannette Walls (for a full list, visit the Library of Congress Web site ). Several local bloggers are working together to...
Jezebel, August 25, 2009
...consumerist deadspin defamer fleshbot gay fleshbot gawker gizmodo idolator io9 jalopnik jezebel kotaku lifehacker valleywag artists gawkershop sploid Jeannette Walls , author of...
Reading Group Guides Blog, August 10, 2009
...of Richmond The Front by Patricia Cornwell - John Jay College of Criminal Justice The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls - Eastern Kentucky University; University of Tennessee, Knoxville The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - Cornell University The Green...
Maw Books Blog, June 8, 2009
...of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder, American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson, and Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls. Congratulations girls! I haven’t drawn my winner yet for The Chosen One giveaway . Watch the comment thread (probably...
Kit's Home for Orphaned Armadillos, June 6, 2009
...On May 18th, I attended a talk by Jeannette Walls, who wrote a memoir called The Glass Castle . I had not heard of her or read her book, but I am always interested in other writers and their experiences...
Tales from the Reading Room, May 16, 2009
...Carson McCullers Elective Affinities – Goethe Personal histories Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls The Lost Child – Julie Myerson Don’t Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller In Translation Siddhartha –...
What Was I Reading?, May 9, 2009
...Not Rated) Nonfiction 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley (A) The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (A) Why We Read What We Read by John Heath and Lisa Adams (Not Rated) Paranormal/Science Fiction The Host by Stephenie Meyer (Not Rated)...
she reads and reads, April 20, 2009
...The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova I now own the third and fourth Maisie Dobbs books; I must get my hands on the first two! What...
Reading Reflections, April 13, 2009
...Since SO many people have read and reviewed Jeannette Walls' memoir The Glass Castle, I'm going to format my review a little differently than normal. This was my choice for our April book club, and I'm going...
