I've read the last page of what I wrote last night and I was obviously babbling. Mania had set in. Mania is a problem with hardened alcoholics. One cup of coffee down, so I'll go and make another. Two cups of coffee, a shit and plenty of fizzy water. That's the recipe for tod...
Books for Youth: BOOKS FRO OLDER READERS Reviews the book `When Lightning Strikes,' by Jenny Carroll. R Leslie - 《Booklist》 被引量: 0发表: 2001年 Books for Youth: BOOKS FOR OLDER READERS Reviews two books about teenagers. `Teens and Drunk Driving,' by Nathan Aaseng; `Teen Alcoholics,...
Reamy Jansen read the new Byatt, THE CHILDREN'S BOOK. He says he thinks “ it's just terrific--one of those works I couldn't wait to get back to. Since it takes place in London and its environs and covers from 1894 to 1917, it was like a journey through my dissertation, a good...
(CBC), where she worked as a radio host and a journalist for 18 years. During this time Penny developed an alcohol problem and at one pointcontemplatedsuicide. At age 35 she joinedAlcoholics Anonymous, and her recovery was also aided by Michael Whitehead, a pediatric hematologist whom she ...
I liked her break-down of the efficacy of Alcoholics Anonymous, as it brought up interesting parallels with religious groups that have similar practices around abstinence. I also liked her perspective on self-binding, pro-social shame, and radical honesty—again, all practices that are woven into...
So that’s it for my Books of the Year, 2024. Thanks so much to everyone who has read, commented or engaged with my thoughts on books over the past year. I really do appreciate it. All that remains is to wish you all the very best for the festive season and the year ahead. Here...
After being jailed for breaking into a vacant apartment, Ellroy got a job at a bookstore. Meanwhile, he had become addicted to Benzedrex. With his health deteriorating and fearing for his sanity, Ellroy joined Alcoholics Anonymous and found steady work as a golf caddy. At age 30 he wrote...
Alcoholics and addicts are unlike any other people I've ever met. I am unlike most people. A blazing mutant of some kind. A wondrous freak. In my mind lurks an urge that will be with me to the end, to put a bottle to my lips and drink myself to death. A judge and jury that ...
She became a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and cared for Philip when he began to suffer from dementia. After her death in 2010, her son Dylan Hyatt discovered the manuscript of a fifth novel, written around the time of her move to Norfolk, and arranged to have it published as an e-...
All in all, an interesting read for its connections to LMM and as a look at its time, but not one I’ll pick up again. However, I’ve been told that a couple of von Arnim’s other books are more palatable, so I may try another sometime, because her actual writing was entertaining...