A painfully honest memoir, I was totally glued
to the pages. The description of life in Catholic Ireland was vivid and gave a whole new meaning to
hardship and resilience.

McCourt is an excellent writer and he took us all through his early days
in Ireland until his journey to the United States of America. If only all memoirs are this
interesting!

The content
of the book starts when he is five to till he is seventeen. The book is easy to understand this way,
because there is no jumping around. The dialog can be confusing with the Irish dialect, but at the
same time it is nice to hear exactly what they would say in certain situations.

All in All the,
book was great. The author shares with you his hopes and dreams. You want to cry for him in the book
because you feel so bad. Then you are so excited when he over comes all the hard ship.

I give it
four stars. I thought it was a great book. It made you take a look at your life and to see how lucky
you really are for what you have. There are some people that have it worse.

Frank Mc Court's memoirs "Angela's Ashes" takes us back to the
1940s where he tells us of his childhood and the poverty that his family lived though. This book
can be very depressing at times which brought me to tears, but this is an excellent memoirs worthy
of a 5 star rating.

The book starts out in New York, the Mc Court family lives in one of the most
impoverished areas of Brooklyn and father, Malachy Mc Court has a hard time keeping a job and a
drinking problem. After the death of baby Margaret, the family moves back to Ireland where times
are harder and life is poorer. The family relies on help from Saint Vincent, DE Paul Society and
they are forced to go on relief. The father drinks whatever money he makes and has a hard time
finding or keeping a job. Frank has a dream of returning to America, where he feels that he can
make life better for himself.

I watched the movie right after reading the book and was amazed at
how many part were left out. I advise everyone to read the book to get the true story of the Mc
Court Family and I look forward to reading the second part, Tis.