Drinking

The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well to do parents pushed her toward anorexia and alcoholism Fittingly, it was literature that saved her she found inspiration in Pete Hamill s A Drinking Life and sobered up Her tale is spiced up with the characters she has known along the way A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape personal relationships and the realities of life until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem. Read Drinking – kino-fada.fr I wanted to avoid this, to simply rate this touching book and be done with it I wanted to just ignore my compulsion toward emotionally disemboweling myself on the internet And I ve never really been one to write an autobiographical book review, but here we are, or here I am Here I am, in my claustrophobic room books scattered about, the television set on the main menu of Oshima Nagisa s Three Resurrected Drunkards the irony there is very much unintentional , dim lamp light, Beethoven so I wanted to avoid this, to simply rate this touching book and be done with it I wanted to just ignore my compulsion toward emotionall...I just pulled my previous review after discovering the author died at the age of 42 from lung cancer I d been wanting to find out how she was getting on after ceasing drinking in 1995 She did maintain sobriety from what I know and continued a successful career until her untimely death in 2002 It is a very well written book, by a skilled journalist, and charts her slow and painful descent into alcohol dependence As a very insightful account of her relationship with her father it is outstandin I just pulled my previous review after discovering the author died at the age of 42 from lung cancer I d been wanting to find out how she was getting on after ceasing drinking in 1995 She did maintain sobriety from what I know and continued a successful career until her untimely death in 2002 It is a very well written book, by a skilled journalist, and charts her slow and painful descent into alcohol dependence As a very insightful account of her relationship with her father it is outstanding Incidentally, he was a wellknown psychoanalyst who told her once that insight usually was a rearranging of the facts After his death she had confirmed...I have an addiction to addiction memoirs, especially if the person is in recovery and is in a reflective mood After all, who doesn t love a good redemption story Caroline Knapp s memoir of her alcoholism is one of the best addiction memoirs I ve ever read She described herself as a high functioning alcoholic, which meant she was mostly able to balance her journalism career with her excessive drinking I read this in 2000, but the writing was so good that I still remember several scenes from I have an addiction to addiction memoirs, especially if the person is in recovery and is in a reflective mood After all, who doesn t love a good redemption story Caroline Knapp s memoir of her alcoholism is o...Quotable My mother understood that drinking wasdangerous than smoking and she understood why smoking could ruin my body drinking could ruin my mind and my future It could eat its way through my life in exactly the same way a physical cancer eats its way through bones and blood and tissue, destroying everything.Beneath my own witty, professional fa ade were oceans of fear, whole rivers of self doubt I once heard alcoholism described in an AA meeting, with eminent simplicity, as fear Quotable My mother understood that drinking wasdangerous than smoking and she understood why smoking could ruin my body drinking could ruin my mind and my future It could eat its way through my life in exactly the same way a physical cancer eats its way through bones and blood and tissue, destroying everything.Beneath my own witty, professional fa ade were oceans of fear, whole rivers of self doubt I once heard alcoholism described in an AA meeting, with eminent sim...Inside InformationThis book is so well written, and is so honest and informative, it is perhaps the most compelling and useful story about addiction I ve ever read Caroline Knapp, an Ivy League educated columnist and editor, shares the story of her slide into alcoholism and her road to recovery with brutal honesty Her down to earth, conversational tone pulls you in, and paints a very credible picture of someone who goes beyond the singular, self serving notion of merely writing a memoir Rec Inside InformationThis book is so well written, and is so honest and informative, it is perhaps the most compelling and useful story about addiction I ve ever read Caroline Knapp, an Ivy League educated columnist and editor, shares the story of her slide into alcoholism and her road to recovery with brutal honesty Her down to earth, conversational tone pulls you in, and paints a very credible picture of someone who goes beyond the singular, self serving notion of merely writing a memoir Recovery has brought out the best in her, and her writing is filled with gratitude and a deep sense of caring for the health of all those around h...I seriously considered putting this book down around the 144 page mark which I rarely ever do but I managed to get through it Okay, first of all, I have much respect for what Knapp put down for this book I know from experience that it s not fun to write about such difficult personal moments for others to read Revisiting and reliving those memories is a difficult task of its own That said, I found the book frustrating, at times agonizing to read, once I got to the halfway point of the ...Almost done Picked this up in my supervisor s office to read when i don t have any calls to make or meetings to run It had some okay parts, but on the whole Knapp s broad generalizations about alcoholics Alcoholics do this, alcoholics do that, we do this, blah blah blah g...Compelling memoir which paints a perhaps counterintuitive picture of what alcoholism looks like It s pretty depressing.Sarah Hepola s Blackout Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget is also pretty goodI also recommend this to anyone who feels they are trying too hard to avoid negative emotions.I just started reading this book, and it s really good I have to say I m wondering though at this point if I am a low functioning human being who would havesuccess as a high functioning alcoholic the author talks about her her professional success was spurred on in a way by the need to conceal her alcoholism I like addiction stories You ve got to serve somebody.I finished this book last night, I also recommend this to anyone who feels they are trying too hard t...3.5 starsCaroline Knapp s Appetites stole my heart earlier this summer if I could I would quote every single page of that book Drinking, Knapp s earlier memoir, has a similar strength in its empowering vulnerability regarding Knapp s alcoholism While this book lacks some of the insights within Appetites, it gives a searing look into the life of a former high functioning alcoholic Of course, there is no simple answer Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to de 3.5 starsCaroline Knapp s Appetites stole my heart earlier this summer if I could I would quote every single page of that book Drinking, Knapp s earlier memoir, has a similar strength in its empowering vulnerability regarding Knapp s alcoholism While this book lacks some of the insights w...

• English
• 20 December 2017
Caroline Knapp
• Paperback
• 286 pages
• 0385315546
• Caroline Knapp
• Drinking