It is crap revisionist history highlighting the mythical “ good nazi”.better to read Night

Yep it’s the parenting polar opposite of glass castle, but disturbed me just as much.

One of my favorite books. Half Broke Horses is also good, and a little less crazy.

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Yeah, I’ve replied this a couple times, but the relationship with the mom in interesting and I don’t understand her at all. The dad’s stories have some balance between him trying to be a good dad and completely screwing things up. The good moments seem genuinely caring or at worst like he’s trying to make up for the bad bits. The moms interactions seem emotionally stunted without a scrap of nurturing in them. When the dad was going through alcohol withdrawal, I dont think there was any comfort from the mom at all. All of the “good” moments with the mom also seem a bit self serving. Even celebrating Christmas on Christmas was more for her than for the kids.

I wonder if the way she is portrayed is most indicative of the author’s relationship with her mom or her moms true self. Probably both.

It's not very popular among critics and reddit specially because of it's inaccuracies I think. But I liked it nonetheless... Imo it's a good emotional fictional novel from the pov of a child. Never seen the movie though.

You only get to read so many words in your life. Make them ones you get something out of.

Now that something could be learning what you don't like in writing. Reading things you aren't into can have value. But that's up to you.

I'd also do some research to see if this book is a known but worth it slump.

I feel like you’re mislabeling the culprit a bit: homophobia is why a lot of men don’t do affectionate bonds with each other. Whether or not someone reads a friendship with intimacy as gay is only problematic if you give in to internalized homophobia. Reading the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus as gay isn’t the source of that.

The worst is when the first book is very good, and then the second feels rushed or like a ghost writer did 99% of it.

So long, and thanks for all the fish

Yeah you’re right, I just never had only book 1 of a series completed and over with! It’s something I gotta get used to :P

Thank you, this was spot on. I tend to try and write what others want to see.

The summary looks interesting. It’s on my list now. I had to laugh. The title of the first review on audible is “The Subtitle Should Be ‘Diary of a Mad Housewife’”.

I love books about flawed people and clashing life perspectives.

Thanks Tammie! I’ll give them a look. I’ve heard of Sookie Stackhouse but haven’t tried it yet. Maybe I will!

I originally typed out a longer answer to this but: the work has received (valid IMO) criticism for harming Holocaust education.

EDIT: Children were not kept as prisoners in concentration camps. They were exterminated shortly after being deported there.

I'm in a book club of sorts and am picking this month's book. I would like to read and share a (auto)biography of Fredrick Douglas. Any recommendations are appreciated.

The book group is a bunch of college friends who read everything from Scifi to biographies to research works.

My initial list is:

1. Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom By David W. Blight
2. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave By Frederick Douglass
3. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass By Frederick Douglass
4. Frederick Douglass in Ireland By Laurence Fenton
5. Frederick Douglass By Benjamin Quarles

Input on these or other options are appreciated, thanks!

That sounds promising! I mean, I’m aware that Twilight isn’t “great literature” either, so that’s totally an option 😂

Why kill your joy of reading when you clearly don’t enjoy the series any longer? If it feels like a chore, put it down and find something else.

Yeah. I don’t understand the mom at all. Narcissism, bipolar, and hoarding disorders maybe? The dad have a lot of humanity along with the demons of addiction. The mom, on the other hand, was constantly either self absorbed or completely off the wall.

Oh no, not again.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Is that the one about how the real tragedy of the Holocaust is what happened to the Nazi's kid?

One of the things I wish I could understand is why someone who supposedly had grand detailed plans to build a “Glass Castle” couldn’t do something as simple as fixing the steps up to the house or insulating the roof. Even a bad attempt?

By all descriptions, he was fairly clever and decent with his hands. I think at least some of that was unearned boast, but a resourceful person can do a lot with a little knowledge and the time. (Even if the end result doesn’t necessarily meet safety regulations.)

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I only mentioned black/white marriages.

According to this 2015 data, 17% of new marriages in the US were interracial and only 11% of those were between a black person and a white person. So less than two percent of new marriages were between a black person and a white person. That is rare.

The black population, which is mostly made up of people whose ancestors have been here for centuries, was shown to be intermarrying at a significantly lower rate than asian and hispanic people, most of whose ancestors would have immigrated much more recently. There is still very obviously a big racial divide.