The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

After I read "Half Broke Horses," I was encouraged to read this memoir by the same author. It took me a while.
Wow, what a book! It's hard to believe that all of the stories in this book are real; some are quite hard to fathom.
Interesting....after I read the book I "googled" it and found an interview with Jeannette Walls. Many of the people who read the book did not feel that it was "depressing," but uplifting.  The obstacles that she faced as a child were overwhelming but she and her sister and brother managed to get out and leave for NYC where they became successful in their own right.

Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner

How funny that I started this book - by Jennifer WEINER - right before the Anthony Weiner story! A book by Weiner, about a male politician who "strays" at the time when the Weiner story was breaking.
Anyway, the book was entertaining, a fast read, with some sympathetic characters.
I especially liked the daugher Lizzie.
It was a good "easy" read and just what I needed!
On now, to more Francine Prose!