March 2014 – 2nd Free Book
THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls is one of the finest memoirs I’ve ever read, so I can’t resist including it as our second Free Book in March 2014.
From the back cover: “THE GLASS CASTLE is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant… The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.”
Our free book is a new trade paperback edition. To have your name entered into our Wednesday, March 26 drawing, please answer this question:
When you were a child, were you shy, strong-willed, cautious, a risk-taker, angry, happy? Describe your dominant characteristic(s) as a child.
Blessings!
Sue
Very quiet, careful and aware.
I was born 3 minutes before my identical twin. For some reason I seemed to always suffer from an inferiority complex. I wasn’t really shy, just never felt I fit in. One factor may have been growing up as an Air Force family. We moved every couple of years and I went to 17 different schools. SO friends were always temporary. I guess in a word, sad.
I was friendly and very competitive, esp. in class.
Your friendliness always shines, Bonnie!
I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to have to pull up stakes and move so often during your childhood, Marjory. I hope that now sadness has turned into joy for you.
Now this one surprises me, Ang. You do such daring things, or at least it seems that way to me. But the careful and aware must be very good attributes for wilderness survival!
I was Fun loving and
Active
Now why am I NOT surprised by that, Robbie!! 🙂
I wasalways very shy.
Very shy
I have always been kind of quiet. Aleuts I know are quiet. But will speak my mind when needed. My mother was born in Egegik a small fishing village in Alaska. Her mother passed away when giving birth to her younger sister. So she and her siblings was shipped off to boarding school. Was very difficult for her, because she wasn’t allowed to speak her language. So most Aleuts that I know are quiet.
Just to let you know Sue I feel I am a person, at 72, just truly beginning to know who I truly am. I feel like all of us, our life is a journey and we become a sum of everything that has passed in our lives, whether it be people, nature, spiritual, it all makes us unique even I as an identical twin am different from my sister. Your books touch me a lot and have helped me along that journey and no, I am no longer sad. I love every moment I have left. I cannot wait to see whats left.
What a beautiful witness to a full and fulfilling life, Marjory. Thank you for sharing and thank you for the kind words about my books.
I was shy as a child, too, Rita, and still am but not as much as I was then. Thank you for sharing with us.
I have found that to be true, too, Lisa. I’m sad that quietness is sometimes the result of needless, heedless rules, but over all, quietness is a virtue, and I value it in all my Aleut friends.
I was a totally free spirit. My mother let me do things that made me think and explore the wonders of my tiny world,which was bright and colorful and full of wonder. I think back to my childhood, and wish that my grown-up world was just the same. But unfortunately, as I grew older all the magic has gone. Realty set in.
Our adult worlds do seem rather colorless sometimes, Paulette. I think that’s why I love to write. I create a world all my own and then I have the wonderful privilege of sharing it with others. I hope you find a creative outlet that lets your free-child shine through! Prayers.