Topic: Jeannette Walls

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Literary Calendar, Jan. 21-27

Sunday, Jan. 22. . Anaïs Fournier, Marc Sauvageau, Marc André Fortin, Christian St-Pierre, Richard Gamache, Yolaine, Patrice Michaud, Dany L...
The final instalment in the five-part series My Father, His Firebombs and My Messed-up Sixties Childhood, in which Post reporter Peter...
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When getting ready for your first semester of college you may buy new clothes or get a haircut, but have you thought about what you will read before arriving? THE LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch is sure to inspire anyone! Pausch had ...
Half Broke Horses?, gives stunning insight to ranch life during turn of the century western America. To compile all the factual information Ms. Walls sat down with her mother, Rose Mary Smith Walls, Lily?s daughter. The result is a fascinating look ...
I just finished reading The Glass Castle. This memoir, by Jeannette Walls, recounts the hardships of a life where moving often, changing jobs, lies, alcohol, lack of food, few showers, and more were the norm. This is not a professional book review ...

Books that Make Me Cry

I don't recommend every book I read; nor do I admit to shedding tears over most books. The poignant memoir of a dismal childhood, spoken from the voice of the child who lived it, sheds such eery light on what most ...

The Glass Castle Essay

In Jeannette Walls captivating memoir, The Glass Castle, the reader becomes enthralled with Jeannette?s constant battle between defending her family and the greatness she hopes the Walls will amount to, and settling for the fact that her family is based off ...
Motivational sayings are cool, because lots of famous people have had lots of pretty epically inspirational ideas and thoughts. " Peter Senge2) "However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. " Japanese ProverbThomas ...