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[title] => THE GLASS CASTLE
[time] => 2005-05-15 21:04:05
[hometext] => This is most extraordinary book I've ever read. You won't be able to put the book down. I'll never forget these children's story
[bodytext] =>   HE LASS ASTLEOh Dear God in the heavens..... I pray please.... tell me as child abuse deepens. How can any parent, for any reason, neglect, trusting, venerable babes they should protect? "The Glass Castle" is a book you can't put down! A family so dysfunctional, truly a complete "breakdown!" There are many different kinds of abuse you know. Sexual, beatings, torturing, but a whole lifetime of neglect, to reject, is so hard to detect!!!  The father is a hopeless drunk, the mother an artist. He can't hold a job, and she just wants to paint. Four children that miraculously learn to adjust. Homeless, starving, no clothes, no complaint. A story that will twist your heart, and wring it out! Parents who have so little regard for their own--pout, rather than provide..... Even turning down welfare, because of their so called pride.  And the many times foster care could have intervened These precious children lied, and finagled to stay together. They would have surely died, without each other upon whom they could lean. Survivors so keen, found ways to eat, to dress, and the author (above) was a scholar. You struggle with them, cry with them, help them through every situation. In the end a secret revealed, if only the Mother had taken action. Immature parents, who can't live without their children. At times I was so outraged, my hands would tremble. Their father was well-read, and bordered on genius. He had promised them a Glass Castle, his way to appease He even stole from them, they could no longer overlook his many vices. After each left home, for the first time in their lives they finally had enough groceries! Each child but the youngest, made a name for themselves. Throughout their whole lives they became very self-sufficient and strong. The Author relates "We each learned to fend for ourselves." How could this book be funny, but at times it is, even though it was very wrong! All credit for contents of the book goes to Jeannette Walls, the poem is mine Created by Lovingcritters consue  The Author's husband is a writer in New York City, She didn't want to write this story because of what people might think of her, He talked her into it by telling her this: "Everyone that is interesting has a past!" *Survival Smiles* [comments] => 7 [counter] => 150 [topic] => 21 [informant] => Lovingcritters [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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