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jess_mango's review
4.0
Oh the agony of being a teenaged girl! This memoir is a follow up to Karr's "Liar's Club" and is just as gritty with a helping of humor.
rp319's review
5.0
“And you snap out of it. Or are snapped out of it. Never again will you lay a hand against yourself, not so long as there are plums to eat and somebody- anybody who gives enough of a damn to haul them to you. So long as you bear the least nibblet of love for any other creature in this dark world, though in love portions are never stingy. There are no smidgens or pinches, only rolling abundance. That's how you acquire the resolution for survival that the coming years are about to demand. You don’t earn it. It’s given.”
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“What warms your countercultural heart about this fraternity is such total lack of judgment, for you all learned at home how to ignore the blatantly peculiar. How to let it ride. In this company, any eccentricity warrants sanction. That sense you feel in town of being some freak whom passersby have secretly bought tickets to gawk at—that just doesn't bubble up here. Who cares if these surfers don't seem to read like you do? Most don't seem to read at all that you notice. Still, nobody squawks about lending you a flashlight if yours goes dead in the night, and on more than one occasion, guys you barely know have without question driven you thirty miles to buy a pen or extra paper, never asking what you're scribbling or to whom, with no mockery inherent in the not-asking either.”
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“What warms your countercultural heart about this fraternity is such total lack of judgment, for you all learned at home how to ignore the blatantly peculiar. How to let it ride. In this company, any eccentricity warrants sanction. That sense you feel in town of being some freak whom passersby have secretly bought tickets to gawk at—that just doesn't bubble up here. Who cares if these surfers don't seem to read like you do? Most don't seem to read at all that you notice. Still, nobody squawks about lending you a flashlight if yours goes dead in the night, and on more than one occasion, guys you barely know have without question driven you thirty miles to buy a pen or extra paper, never asking what you're scribbling or to whom, with no mockery inherent in the not-asking either.”
shartmastr's review
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
the narrator is kind of annoying. But I liked a lot of the things she had to say. The no gramma kind of bothered me
parkergarlough's review
adventurous
3.25
didn't really like the first or last chapters but i liked the rest
melissa_cosgrove's review against another edition
5.0
Mary Karr knocks it out of the park every time. I’m so glad I started the new year with this book. Poetic, hilarious, devastating… I’ll add more to this later, but I am, as always, blown away by her talent.
goshdarncvnt's review
dark
reflective
slow-paced
2.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use
Moderate: Self harm and Cursing