It took me a while to get into the story...but much like Liars Club, the story wants to be heard. The fact that it is her life and she is sharing it with you makes it a very intimate process. Full of sad moments, funny ones, and a whole bunch of are your serious moments. While Mary Karr takes you th...
i am pretty sure this one is getting only two stars because my expectations were so high going in. the liar's club is one of my all time favorite memoirs. it is one of my all time favorite books.karr's writing here is while very good, not nearly in the same league as it is when she paints those chil...
I don't know anything about Mary Karr's other writing, but this was a great memoir. Great characters and settings - sad, tragic, rambunctious and humorous.
I either gel with a book or I don't and this one didn't hit the target for me at all. Oh well, they all can't be winners, however, I'd consider getting Lit: A Memoir from the library just to say I did read all of Mary Karr's books.
This is a wonderful memoir of family love in the face of great unhappiness -- though Mary Karr's mother's misery, her turbulent behavior and heavy drinking, overshadowed the family, they managed to stick together and get through. The life of the Texas refinery town took its toll too, though Karr's f...
Hrrrm...I didn't like this one as much as I thought I would. The one aspect I really enjoyed was the way she describes certain scents throughout her childhood and that's why I gave it three stars instead of just two. In my own writing I have trouble with scents, so to see it so well done gave me ma...
Perhaps if I had read this when it first came out or perhaps if I had read it before such classic memoirs as The Glass Castle, Falling Leaves, Angela's Ashes, and Blackbird then maybe, maybe I would have liked Liar's Club better. But there were many parts of the book where I found myself asking, "So...
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.
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