J'ai lu seulement le 1er chapitre que j,ai bein aimé. Le 2e... je n'ai pas aimé. Feuilleté le reste.... sans intérêt pour moi.

Book Club - Mar. 2010

I loved the book. Catherine Gildiner has a hilarious way of telling how she was brought up. The way she describes Roy, her "partner in crime" is very skilfull. She does this description without giving too much information to the reader; but, the reader can easily guess the background of the character. Lots of metaphors are referred to the point. Even the name of the book is one big metaphor. At the very beginning, I felt little self-indulgence as in most of the memoirs. Other than it was fun to read.

You will fall in love with this character... It's hard not to... She is a precious little girl with, what seems to be, an enviable life... Until you start to get deeper and deeper into the story. An amazing piece of work by a very talented author... And there's a follow up... 'After the Falls'... And it gets better... She's working on a third and final book, to be released next year. I can't wait!

Very funny and entertaining memoir. I'm not sure if it was entirely true as some of the tales seemed far fetched and contradictory e.g. her mother's hairdo. I enjoyed the book until the last two chapters. The end was disappoining, but I would still highly recommended the book.

Perhaps one of the funniest, and wittiest books I've read in a while. Told from the perspective of a Catherine growing up in small town Lewiston in the 1950s - a precocious intelligent child that has many questions and a very unique view of the world. A must read.