Good book...

I just read a really interesting book that I found out about at our "informal book club" ... which is our spinning club at the gym. It is called "The Glass Castle". I thought it was a novel until I got to the end and found out it was about the life of Jeanette Walls, a news writer/reporter for msNBC. That is one disadvantage of reading a Kindle... you can't flip around easily. There are many photos of her online.

Anyway, she was born in Phoenix... and her family was homeless her entire life in the 60's and 70's. They just lived in the desert, in cardboard boxes, old shacks...in old cars. She never knew what it was like to take a shower or bath, never had any food... had to steal food from trash cans at school, lived mostly in the city library of Phoenix and then Appalachia. Because of that, she and her siblings (except one) are all extremely successful due to their intelligence- constantly reading.... never having a TV, electricity, running water, or any holidays. She got a full scholarship to an Ivy League school and no one ever knew she had been homeless until she wrote the book. I thought it was really interesting that it was written from a child's perspective. Her mother is still a homeless person in NYC and has no desire to live in a house, have clothes, etc. We'll see what the "book club" recommends next!