<![CDATA[Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood]]>

false <![CDATA[Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170984262m/80570.jpg 80570 8 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. Eye- opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas's story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholicsyetbut who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment. With one stiff sip of Southern Comfort at the age of fourteen, Zailckas is initiated into the world of drinking. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. 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. 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. Gripping... one of the best accounts of addiction, the college experience, or even what it means to be an average teenage girl in America. A. -Entertainment Weekly 275852 2005 Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood total:3523|5:483|4:1008|3:1291|2:564|1:177| 3523 11625 4797 610 1 8 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 22:49:22 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 23:58:11 -0800 2007
In between choking fits of laughter over the overly-dramatic stare coming from the author's picture on the back, I became annoy...more...]]> 1 8 false false Tue Sep 02 05:40:26 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 05:43:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 4 false false Mon Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 06:47:18 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 27 20:19:53 -0800 2008
Most of the book is about the author's experiences binge-drinking, being depressed, and drinking more to deal with he...more...]]> 3 4 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 11:41:39 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 11:41:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 6 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 22:27:04 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 22:27:04 -0700 2008 Zailckas often brushes against compelling issues of this "drunken girldom": the odd and alienating social structure...more...]]> 1 5 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jun 27 14:36:52 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 14:38:30 -0700 2008
Smashed is a book that I hope Zailckas will consider with embarrassment as she grows up, assuming she ever does. Zailckas' writing takes herself far too seriously and attempts to inject poetic turns of phrase far too often. Bottling her parents' al...more...]]> 2 4 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 20 16:33:57 -0700 2007 Fri May 11 13:46:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 10:16:22 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 10:24:05 -0700 2007
To begin, she has SERIOUS issues that she avoids. I was left with far more questions by the end of the book than when I began. And--where the hell were her parents? They suck repeatedly th...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 09:58:19 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 17:28:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 3 false false Fri May 04 22:36:09 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 21:36:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 2 true false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 14:25:25 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 14:38:12 -0800 2009 i haven't just 50 pages or so more...]]> 1 3 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 13 01:32:45 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 01:38:01 -0700 2007
In the end, it's everyone's fault the author had a drinking problem...everyone except the author herself.]]> 2 3 false false Wed Sep 24 14:45:48 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 14:46:24 -0700 2008 1 3 false false Tue May 15 10:52:11 -0700 2007 Tue May 15 18:10:01 -0700 2007 1 2 false false Mon Jul 23 12:44:14 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 12:46:24 -0700 2007 2 2 true false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jul 30 15:20:55 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 15:38:13 -0700 2007 2 2 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Feb 18 11:14:03 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 11:14:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jan 25 13:28:20 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 13:28:52 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 05:35:53 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 10:24:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Dec 06 08:26:13 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 08:26:45 -0800 2007
During the time when I wasn't listening to it, though, I was still thinking about it. And when I put ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=80570