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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
After hearing the name Mary Karr echoed in many panels, classes, and conversations—I finally picked up this memoir. A great representation of what memoirs can do, how they move, and breathe. Karr writes with enviable scrutiny and honesty.
It took me a few chapters to get into this book, but once in I loved it.
I hated this book most of the way through but she won me over at the end. I think it may have hit too close to home but her unwavering honesty was refreshing when other memoirs set out to impress.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I loved this book to pieces. Mary Karr is a great storyteller and she has a masterful ability to give voice to a massive tangled pile of complex and difficult feelings. I saw myself all over this book, even though I am not a, let's say,"narrowly focused," substance abuser. I have an addictive personality and struggle with a lot of the same inclinations - in particular the desire to manaically consume and perpetuate something/someone/some behavior that I know is destructive for me. I am drawn to addiciton memoirs for that reason and this is a really solid title from that genre. I also really enjoyed her spiritual and religious journey - it's logical, it's understandable, it doesn't seem forced and saccharine and she doesn't try to ram her beliefs down her readers throats. *Highly recommended*