I read this because Cheryl Strayed recommended Mary Karr on her Dear Sugar podcast -- and when I read all the descriptions of Karr's book, this one appealed to me most because it deals with Catholic spirituality.The Catholic spirituality part is interesting, although it is not as much of the book as...
Super well-written and brave. I'm a little allergic to spiritual stuff, but I guess if you're as screwed-up as Mary Karr was at this point in her life, whatever works to get you off whatever it is you're on is good.
I'm not sure what to say about this one. It took a lot out of me, reading it. And it's not like I can say I was drawn in by the story line...really it's just another memoir of an alcoholic getting sober and finding God. I've read those before with much more enticing stories and such. Still...the way...
I enjoy reading memoirs and enjoyed Mary Karr's very much. So much so, I plan to read at least her first memoir (The Liar's Club) and maybe her second (Cherry).I may not have understood every complex word the author used, but enough to get a feel for the events she wrote about and even more importan...
Non-celebrity memoir has become particularly hot during the last decade or so, and Mary Karr's first work in the genre, The Liars' Club (1995) was one of the books that helped start that fire. Poetic, moving, and both darkly humorous and horrifying in its depiction of her seriously screwed-up Texas ...
This is the third memoir that Karr has written about her life. Since she has not been President or a great military general, we know she must describe her life in considerable detail in order to fill three books. We learn from this book that she's had a lot of experience telling her life's story a...
This is my favorite of Mary's works. I think in part because she portrays recovery for the arduous task it often is. She acknowledges the fear, anger, frustration, and mess that goes with trying to stay sober one day at a time. But she ultimately affirms that we do recover.
Like Ron Rash and Thomas Hardy, Mary Karr writes dense, image-rich language with a poet’s flair. This is not stuff you speed-read past. Slow down, take a sip from whatever you’re drinking. Maybe read that paragraph again. Make sure there are no visions left behind. The language is a major part of th...
The third volume in Karr's series of memoirs covers her adulthood, her addictions, her marriage and motherhood and her eventual conversion to Christianity. Her sardonic powers of observation remain unscathed by any of this, thankfully. It's very raw and funny and well worth reading if you are a fan ...
A memoir about an alcoholic poet; this is what blogs are for and yet this is Karr's third memoir book.Karr's book isn't all bad, she actually has a funny style that isn't too heavy handed but it still left me pleading 'spare me' through the whole thing. I have little empathy and no patients for add...
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