Author: Jeannette Walls
Genre: Memoir
Pages: 288
Ages: 16+
This is an autobiography like no other. Jeannette Walls has taken memories of the hardships and struggles of her own life and woven them into this compelling memoir in story-telling fashion. The reviews of The Glass Castle are either amazing or bad, there is no in between, and I truly believe that this is also a testament dividing the people that have read the book. Many of the people who did not enjoy the book could not even imagine the struggles the Walls had faced, and review the book without a care, living a sheltered life. It is easy for the reader to feel hatred toward many characters of the novel, such as Erma, but the powerful yet underlying message is that everyone has a past. Before you judge someone you must know that things are the way they are for a reason, and even the seemingly perfect of people have their skeletons. This is not a book to pass up, even for someone who, like myself, isn't a huge fan of autobiographies and memoirs. The Glass Castle cannot be praised enough, and I vouch for it every day. I even have a line of friends wanting to borrow the book next! Although I cannot relate to the extremity of Walls' circumstances, this is a truly inspiring and dare I say life-changing book.
Rating: 5/5
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Book: J. K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter
Author: Marc Shapiro
Genre: Biography
Pages: 128
Ages: 14+
This is a biography about the author of the Harry Potter series and how the books became so successful. It starts from Rowling's childhood, when she was clearly more imaginative than the rest of her friends and classmates. It then goes through her yound adulthood when she experienced a family death and had her first child. She then became very poor and wrote the Harry Potter series on whatever scraps of paper she could find. I'm not one that usually reads biographies, but this was very well-written and Rowling's story is awe-inspiring. After all, she went from being poor to extremely successful with only a creative mind, a pencil, and paper.
Author: Marc Shapiro
Genre: Biography
Pages: 128
Ages: 14+
This is a biography about the author of the Harry Potter series and how the books became so successful. It starts from Rowling's childhood, when she was clearly more imaginative than the rest of her friends and classmates. It then goes through her yound adulthood when she experienced a family death and had her first child. She then became very poor and wrote the Harry Potter series on whatever scraps of paper she could find. I'm not one that usually reads biographies, but this was very well-written and Rowling's story is awe-inspiring. After all, she went from being poor to extremely successful with only a creative mind, a pencil, and paper.
Rating: 4.5/5
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