The Glass Castle - best book of 2009

by Jeannette Walls.

I don't know how i found out about this book, but the reviews on it looked really interesting. Like my kind of book. It turned out to be my favourite book of 2009. I found a copy at Stanton and couldn't put it down the moment I started reading. It's an autobiography and it is amazing. This girl had a very dysfunctional family life, but she relates it with such humour. As i was reading this in bed, every few paragraphs, i'd have to stop and say to Steve, 'you have got to listen to this' and I'd read it out and we'd both be laughing ourselves silly. The first half of the book is incredibly funny. It does get a bit sad once you find out more about her father's drinking problem and her mother's lack of direction and purpose in life . I watched an interview she did on youtube, and she is an amazing woman. She is resilient. How ever did her parents raise 4 kids without killing any of them is also astonishing.

I love autobiographies that are written well. This one was written well. I'd read so much of it out loud to Steve, I pretty much read him the whole book.