Saturday, April 14, 2007

April 14th - Book Twenty-One: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood


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So, I've broken the 20 book level which means I'm more than 40% through the goal of 50 in 52. Koren Zailckas wrote this memoir of herself growing up as a lush. The book, which kicks around some - but thankfully not too much - statistical data about youth drinking is able to limit most of the seemingly requisite preaching found in similar books that drive to tell people how they should live their lives. Her story provides interesting reading for anyone that wants stripped-down insight into what college drinking in the United States looks like. She is able to convey the negatives of binge drinking without doing anything by telling her weird, drunken stories. I bought this book for $5.99 at Book Warehouse on Broadway. Rating: 3.5/5. (343 pages. Total for the year: 5482 pages)

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