Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143036475 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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I had to annotate it @ first it was ok but later got very boring I almost fall asleep each time I read it Amazon Customer Got this book for my ap summer reading assignment. I had to annotate it @ first it was ok but later got very boring I almost fall asleep each time I read it. Really boring, talks about unnecessary things.. well written memoir KBM Koren Zailckas' memoir is definitely an interesting read. It's very well-written, and I stopped more than once to admire a few descriptive sentences or paragraphs. Unlike some of the other reveiwers, I do not believe she "denies" her "alcoholism" at all. Horribly abusing alcohol is not necessarily proof of alcoholism. One can be addicted physically and psychologically and still not be an "alcoholic". And, even when one is no longer physically addicted, but still may be psychologically addicted, it doesn't mean they are an "alcoholic". It means the. NOO! One of the worst books I've read in a long timenot sure what this author's other books are like.
. Zailckas is unsparingly insightful and acutely aware of what drinking can and does do to girls. Fraternity keg parties led to drunken sexual encounters not-quite-remembered; drinking began to replace intimacy. She weaves disturbing statistics (from Harvard School of Public Heath studies and elsewhere) into her memoir: most girls will have their first drink by age 12, and will have the experience of being drunk by 14; teenage girls drink as much as their male peers, but their bodies process it badly (they get drunk faster, stay drunk longer and are more likely to die o
Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. At age twenty-two, Zailckas will wake up in an unfamiliar apartment in New York City, elbow her friend who is passed out next to her, and ask, "Where are we?" Smashed is a sober look at how she got there and, after years of blackouts and smashups, what it took for her to realize she had to stop drinking. Smashed is an astonishing literary debut destined to become a classic.. In high school, her experimentation will lead to a stomach pumping. In college, her excess will give way to a pattern of self-poisoning that will grow more destructive each year. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s st