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Koren Zailckas
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Talk about “the few and the proud…” Since I’ve been in Okinawa, I learned that women make up a mere 6 percent of the U.S. Marine Corps. From that small minority, come big shocking numbers. One third of those women are sexually assaulted during their time in the military, and 90 percent are sexually harassed. Imagine your commanding officer—your boss—putting your hand on his crotch. Imagine a m...
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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
   3.37 avg rating — 8,572 ratings
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2005
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Fury: A Memoir
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2010
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5 editions
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"Koren wrote: "In the third Fury-related contest, readers responded to the question "What is your favorite synonym for 'furious?'"
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"Kara wrote: "Koren wrote: "Kara wrote: "Hi Koren,
This is another question that sort of combines both Smashed and Fury..... In Smashed, if I recall (and...more " |
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"Butterfly Joi wrote: "Koren, I thought that was amazingly creative. I never thought about a trailer for a book. Why not?
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"Will wrote: "Do you edit for clarity? Does the memory remain primary, or are you willing to bend events to the narrative?
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Thank you so much for your post. And for reading both my books. No, I don't think of Smashed and Fury as separate entities. I haven't read the...more " |
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"My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them."
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“I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.”
― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
“I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me”
― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
“But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me want to yell until my face is red, knock over glasses with the back of my hand, and kick people I don’t know in the shins.”
― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
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“I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.”
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir
“There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.”
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir
“My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued.”
― Koren Zailckas
― Koren Zailckas
“My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.”
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir
Q&A with Koren Zailckas
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Join Koren Zailckas as she discusses her memoirs Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood and Fury. This group will be active from November 10 - 17, 2010.
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Oprah, like Goodreads, has created an amazing community of readers out of an activity that is very solitary. From shmaltz and sentiment, fabricated me...more
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A place to share memoirs, biographies, autobiographies (and maybe even fiction-based-in-reality) that you have enjoyed!
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