Lisa's review
Drinking: A Love Story
by Caroline Knapp
Lisa's review
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
Lisa's review
rating:
very good stairmaster reading...you'll spend half the time being annoyed with this pretentious chick, and half the time wanting a glass of wine/beer/tequila shot. Not that drinking isn't a complicated love story for all of us--but she seems to think her love story with the bottle is on a heathcliff/catherine earnshaw level. Whereas the rest of us are at, apparently, more of a harlequin novel level.
ok--as I've spent more time on the stairmaster with this chick--and on the subway (since she's also great subway reading), I have to modify my initial scorn. A point in her favor--she does change the conversation about alcoholism radically. That is, she doesn't spend a lot of time on the "disease" aspect of things, instead organizing her approach around the concept of "relationship." Alcoholism happens to her like a really intense love relationship--one that she's more committed to than anything else. I like the willingness to shift the terminology--even if the book i...more
ok--as I've spent more time on the stairmaster with this chick--and on the subway (since she's also great subway reading), I have to modify my initial scorn. A point in her favor--she does change the conversation about alcoholism radically. That is, she doesn't spend a lot of time on the "disease" aspect of things, instead organizing her approach around the concept of "relationship." Alcoholism happens to her like a really intense love relationship--one that she's more committed to than anything else. I like the willingness to shift the terminology--even if the book i...more
