Suzie Q's Reviews > The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle
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Had I been given a choice, I would not have read this book. It was required reading for a college. The biggest issue I had with this book was that, while I felt that a lot of the things that she described could happen, it was presented in a way that made me doubtful. For example, when her mother was pregnant with her younger sister and she was in the car, insisting she was 10 months pregnant (I'm guessing she was actually 7-8 months pregnant at this point) she somehow managed to reach her foot over her husband's legs, stomp on the break and move fast enough to get out of the car before her husband could stop her or get the car rolling again. Walls describes seeing her mother dive in and out of the head lights of the car and running around the desert. I don't know about anyone else, but the idea of being that nimble that late in pregnancy just sounds impossible. Now I'm not saying it's improbable, I'm just saying the incident is suspect. Either that or it wasn't remembered correctly.In any, it really set the tone for how I felt about her story the rest of the book.
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Finished Reading
February 21, 2011
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