#The Glass Castle

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the glass castle by jeannette walls

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Brie Larson

Harper’s Bazaar

Photography by Collier Schorr

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Sadie Sink is destined to play characters with family issues, sometimes including an alcoholic mother and a dead sibling

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Sandra Castle

Parent's Story: The Glass Mountain

Powerful Qualities: Loving, romantic, trustworthy

Roommate: Rosalie Peyton

Secret Heart’s Desire: I would love to live somewhere closer to the ground. I love my castle, but living on a mountain made of glass is pretty terrifying sometimes you know?

My “Magic” Touch: Because I grew up on a mountain made of glass, my steps are very dainty and quiet. Trust me, the last thing you want is a whole mountain to have one tiny crack in it.

Storybook Romance Status: I know as much as the next princess that every girl in EAH has a crush on Daring Charming, but Ben Bernhardt is pretty cute right?

“Oh Curses!” Moment: My steps are so quiet, I sometimes scare people by accident.

Favorite Subject: Castle Design

Least Favorite Subject: Experimental Fairy Math

Best Friends Forever After: Alanna Dale, Irene of Augen, and Sweetie Plumfairy.

Pet: Ola the Eagle

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Educated by Tara Westover Review

Dates Read: January 17 — January 19, 2025

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Genre: Memoir

2025 Reading Goal: 8/100

My grandmother gifted me this book years ago and—I’m going to be real—I never picked it up because the cover didn’t intrigue me (I know, I know, don’t judge a book by its cover). However, now that I’ve read it, I wish I would’ve picked it up a long time ago. In this memoir, Tara Westover recounts her life growing up in a Mormon survivalist family where she faces neglect, abuse, deprivation of a proper education, and the anxieties that accompany her family’s strict religious beliefs. Westover’s story is full of resilience as she finds her way from being an uneducated child living in fear to a college-educated woman who finds peace with her troubled past. I thought this was a fantastic memoir that reminded me a lot of Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle—another great memoir about complex family dynamics.

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Yooo I just read station eleven it was fantastic

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Also I really want to see those graphic novels it’s a shame they’re not real

Hiii I love Station Eleven so much. I can go on for years about it!

I first read it in December 2019, when news of coronavirus was just breaking. So that was obviously an anxiety-provoking experience haha. And then I re-read it last year, "post pandemic", and it holds up so well! Apocalyptic/sci-fi stories that centre the beauty of humanity, art, music, culture, cooperation, community, etc is one of my fav genres (re Mad Max Fury Road, Arrival, etc.). And yes my favourite bit was those graphic novels, it was so satisfying to read how she came up with the idea, the description of the text and the artwork - and it was brilliant to see how it touched multiple lives. I want to read them too!

Have you watched the HBO show based on the book? I still haven't, I'm a little scared it might not capture the book's essence haha. Also, I recommend the author's other books - Glass Castle and Sea of Tranquility - they don't reach the heights of Station Eleven imo but they're still pretty good, and they're set in parallel/overlapping timelines so some familiar characters turn up :)

[ittakestwopod]

This week, we are comparing Captain Fantastic (2016) and The Glass Castle (2017), two films about families raised in unconventional ways.

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The Movies:

Captain Fantastic (2016)

Directed by Matt Ross

Written by Matt Ross

iMDb Rating: 7.8

The Glass Castle (2017)

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

Written by Destin Daniel Cretton & Andrew Lanham

Based on the memoir by Jeannette Walls

iMDB Rating: 7.1

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Discussions of death, suicide, illness, poverty, mental illness, physical abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, trauma, injury.

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Who Are Your 5?

If you could get five (5) living authors in a room together, to interview or to give you writing advice or just to hang out with and drink excessively with or whatever you want (not like that), who would they be?

My choices:

Neil Gaiman Fonda Lee Jeannette Walls T.J. Klune Shannon Chakraborty

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the glass castle by jeannette walls

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lets go higher and higher - latest artwork

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Books I'm considering next

I mentioned before I add a new book every 5 sim years in my bookish save.. I'm torn about what book to add in next for Year 55. I know It seems too soon to be thinking about it bc I'm posting Year 50 right now, but in actuality I'm halfway through playing Year 53 so I need to give myself some time to finish reading and do prep like take notes, make a timeline.

Below are the ones I'm currently considering. They each have things about them that I really want to play and things about them that would be difficult to show with sims. Opinions welcome! I would love if somebody just tells me they have a clear favorite and then I don't have to decide lol.

In alphabetical order (info on each after the cut)

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys (memoir)

Dust Child (historical fic)

Magic Lessons and the Practical Magic trilogy (fantasy)

Refugee High (nonfic)

Salvage the Bones ; Sing, Unburied Sing (fic)

She's Not There (memoir)

The Glass Castle ; Half Broke Horses (memoir)

To Kill A Kingdom (fantasy)

War and Speech (YA)

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys (memoir of Viv Albertine, member of British female punk rock group The Slits. I'm interested in the aesthetics of this. She's also dated Mick from The Clash, has been friends with various ppl like Sid Vicous. But should I hold out for the possibility of a bands EP or GP in the future? And there's another memoir of hers I could also read before playing. It's more focused on her family rather than her music career)

Dust Child (historical fiction about a half Vietnamese half black man who is trying to find out who his father is in the present time intertwined with the story of two sisters who leave their small town to become bar girls in Saigon in past time. I actually haven't read this yet but I became interested in playing something with a Vietnamese storyline because of the tumblr @biplusco . Their Indochine cc collection made me want to play something set in Southeast Asia.

Magic Lessons; The Book of Magic; The Rules of Magic; Practical Magic (trilogy and a prequel following the Owens family of witches since the 1600s. You may know the movie Practical Magic. Of these books I've read Practical Magic and half of Magic Lessons but haven't read The Book of Magic or The Rules of Magic yet. The main issue here is 4 books is a lot to take notes about and make timelines for before playing through. Plus, starting from the late 1600s all the way to more current times at the speed I play will mean I never finish! But maybe I could JUST play the prequel.)

Refugee High (nonfiction about the high school in the U.S. with the highest percentage of refugees. The author chose some students, each from a different country, to delve into the lives of. Could be interesting depicting each one's past in sims before they end up together in Copperdale High School. But I've only just started reading this one.)

Salvage the Bones; Sing, Unburied, Sing (fictions both by Jesmyn Ward and they take place in the same town. The characters even cross paths at one point. I love her writing so much but a key part of one book is a hurricane and the other book mostly takes place in a car so I don't know if I can do this well in Sims 4 as the game is rn)

She's Not There (memoir, gender transition. I might want to read her other book called Good Boy about every dog she's had in her life first so I can play both together and have each of the pets join the family at the right times)

The Glass Castle; Half Broke Horses (both by Jeannette Walls. The Glass Castle is a really popular memoir about the author's nomadic upbringing with parents who eventually choose to be homeless. Half Broke Horses is her biography of her maternal grandmother. That one mostly takes place on ranches. What happens in The Glass Castle basically picks up right after what happens in Half Broke Horses.)

To Kill A Kingdom (fiction, fantasy, mermaids and princes. This one I'm worried about my lack of cc for. I want to play out a fantasy book at some point but I haven't done any collecting of fantasy cc whatsoever yet so it might take a while to accumulate it )

War and Speech (a humorous YA book about a high school girl, new to a school, who joins the super snobby speech team just to try to bring them down from the inside.)

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Not to complain and be like idk rude? or like one of those people that like..idk but fuck whoever decided to turn Glass Castle into a movie. The book was traumatizing enough and those poor child actors we should burn every copy of that book cause it sucks ass and idk anyone who likes that book, vomitrocious. And it's on Netflix no I will not be watching it I just want to bitch about it cause I can. My friends and I called it "The Ass Cast" and every time we had to read out of it we would chuckle. Like not to get into it but I was not the only one that had issues reading that book but lord did my teacher really push the traumatic events on me. And then he was like 'when the movie comes out I'm taking the class to see it together' idk if that happened cause we all graduated and I def didn't fucking go

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