I've been putting off reading this book since Blythe blogged about it because she was so disappointed with it. Like Blythe, I read and enjoyed Jeannette Walls' Glass Castles, and I was worried that this wouldn't impress me either. And while I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed her memoir, I did find myself sucked in by Half Broke Horses.The book tells the story of Walls' maternal grandmother, Lily Casey. Sort of. It does tell her story, but by the end it's pretty obvious that it's only about Lily insomuch as it explains the bizarre behavior of Rosemary, Walls' mother. I never really connected with Lily. She's pretty self-centered and is kind of a bitch. Her favorite character in all literature is Scarlett O'Hara, and I think that says a lot (she happens to be one of my all-time least favorite characters in all of literature).
I didn't love this book, but I did like the insight it gave me into Rosemary and why she ended up becoming the woman she did. I would be extremely interested in reading a book by Walls' daughter down the road; I'd like to see how much of her mother and grandmother she ended up inheriting...
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