Drinking: A Love Story | Book Review
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp Original Publication Date: 1996 Genres: Memoir Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as “liquid armor,” a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. Drinking: A Love Story is a book about alcoholism and about one woman’s fight to get her life back.…
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story | Book Review
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story by John O'Dowd Original Publication Date: 2007 Genres: Biography Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is about the tragic life of Barbara Payton. She looked like a very promising young starlet in the 1950s, as the beautiful but untrained actress gave good performances in her films. But Barbara could not control her private life, which made more headlines than her films. Mental illness and alcoholism followed. Barbara Payton became one of the most tragic figures in Hollywood history. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story by John O’Dowd is the very sad true story of how a beautiful actress who…
