The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls: A Memoir

I usually am not a fan of autobiographies. I think that a lot of people  think there lives would be interesting as a book and they just aren't. Well, Jeannette Walls definitely had something interesting to write about. It's about her "adventurous" childhood, being raised by parents who always kept them on the move and definitely weren't the best at prioritizing how to spend there money.

The thing I find most fascinating about her story is that both of her parents were very smart people who had the ability to work and earn money for their family, but they just didn't always do that. Her mother was a qualified teacher but had a life long dream to be an artist. Her father was a coal miner, among other things, but  his booze always seemed to get in the way of his plans. To come from such a crazy background, Jeanette Walls has turned herself into a successful woman.