Comments on: Out, Damn’d Ferrari! Father Doesn’t Know Best in Liza Campbell’s ‘A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth’s Castle’ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/out-damn%e2%80%99d-ferrari-father-doesnt-know-best-in-liza-campbell%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98a-charmed-life-growing-up-in-macbeth%e2%80%99s-castle%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/out-damn%e2%80%99d-ferrari-father-doesnt-know-best-in-liza-campbell%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98a-charmed-life-growing-up-in-macbeth%e2%80%99s-castle%e2%80%99/#comment-7133 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:36:23 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=906#comment-7133 Hope the author of the book sees your kind comment. I’m the critic (and not a mother) and, over the holidays, thought about her descriptions of Christmas at the castle :) .

]]> By: spolli007 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/out-damn%e2%80%99d-ferrari-father-doesnt-know-best-in-liza-campbell%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98a-charmed-life-growing-up-in-macbeth%e2%80%99s-castle%e2%80%99/#comment-7132 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:53:51 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=906#comment-7132 Very insightful book. I saw it as a tragedy of human proportions. Could not believe how many words I didn’t know. Always running off to the dictionary, but I’m glad I struggled through. Grew up in Glasgow, always hating the “snobs”. This book reminds me that life is not about who you are, or where you came from, but who you become. You triumphed with this book…..and life. You must be a fantastic mum!

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/out-damn%e2%80%99d-ferrari-father-doesnt-know-best-in-liza-campbell%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98a-charmed-life-growing-up-in-macbeth%e2%80%99s-castle%e2%80%99/#comment-5974 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:11:47 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=906#comment-5974 You are so right about alcohol and Scotland. If I remember correctly, it has one of the highest alcoholism rates in Europe (if not the highest). I’ve never quite understood why. The easy access to those great single malts doesn’t seem to explain it fully, does it?

]]> By: The Social Librarian http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/out-damn%e2%80%99d-ferrari-father-doesnt-know-best-in-liza-campbell%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98a-charmed-life-growing-up-in-macbeth%e2%80%99s-castle%e2%80%99/#comment-5973 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:49:35 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=906#comment-5973 “It was my first realization that something profound and permanent can happen in an instant and, worse, never be undone. It took a while to realize that life doesn’t deliver a single such instance, but an endless series of them.”

You’re right, what an incredibly chilling observation! Makes me want to read more so that I can fully understand why Liza feels like this.

Coming from Scotland myself I can confirm that alcoholism is a major issue over here. Not surprising really, given that until yesterday alcohol sponsors were allowed to advertise their products on children’s football strips. Imagine, little football fans running all over Glasgow sporting tops promoting Carling Beer! Madness, I know! But, I digress…

To be honest I’ve seen this book in bookstores in the past but I had always dismissed it as ‘not for me’. But I might just read it now following your review!

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/out-damn%e2%80%99d-ferrari-father-doesnt-know-best-in-liza-campbell%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98a-charmed-life-growing-up-in-macbeth%e2%80%99s-castle%e2%80%99/#comment-5972 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:23:07 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=906#comment-5972 Bless you! I’m so lucky to have been the book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland for 11 years and the book columnist for Glamour for about 3 before that. Those two jobs have given me a mental trust fund of books that I can draw on as needed, which really helps during weeks like this one when I’m feeling stretched.

I also find comments like yours so heartening (and an inspiration to keep trying to post often). Thank you so much …
Jan

]]> By: ggelliott http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/out-damn%e2%80%99d-ferrari-father-doesnt-know-best-in-liza-campbell%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98a-charmed-life-growing-up-in-macbeth%e2%80%99s-castle%e2%80%99/#comment-5971 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:28:22 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=906#comment-5971 What is the proper way to review a review, anyway?

In the absence of anything better, I will add that I also thoroughly enjoyed this review.

Best line: “Hugh Campbell seems to have had a self-destructive romantic streak long before the move to Cawdor threw it into ionospheric relief.”

Worst line: Just…none!

Thanks for putting so much heart into these reviews. And wondering how you accomplish it all!

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/out-damn%e2%80%99d-ferrari-father-doesnt-know-best-in-liza-campbell%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98a-charmed-life-growing-up-in-macbeth%e2%80%99s-castle%e2%80%99/#comment-5970 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:41:16 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=906#comment-5970 You’re very welcome! Awards weeks are always a little hectic on One-Minute Book Reviews (and bring extra work), so I really appreciate knowing that it is not all in vain …

]]> By: oh http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/out-damn%e2%80%99d-ferrari-father-doesnt-know-best-in-liza-campbell%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98a-charmed-life-growing-up-in-macbeth%e2%80%99s-castle%e2%80%99/#comment-5969 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:41:38 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=906#comment-5969 Thoroughly enjoyed this review, have much to say on the topic of children at the dinner table, though mine would wax more toward the behavior of American children’s parents in public and your awards list of who won/who didn’t back to the early 1900s has me champing at the bit for a B&N stop, one which I haven’t made in nearly 8 days and count it as doing very well, thank you.
But this Charmed Life has put me over the top and I must go see as well as pick up CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY as I mentioned several blogs ago that I would try.

Thanks, as always!

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