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Book Review of Wishful Drinking

Wishful Drinking
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I'm sorry, I found this book unentertaining. I found it to be all over the place and really, rather small snippets of what I had thought the book was to be about - her struggle with her various "demons" of alcohol and bi-polar illness. It was, in my opinion, scattered attempts to make fun of herself with short sketches of stories of her life scattered through the pages all over the place, leaving me to ask what was I reading and when was she going to tell her story, her "real" story...not just a small, glazed over attempt to wrap it up in a one-liner wise-crack (sorry for my run-on sentence). And I thought the swearing was really unclassy and disappointing. Raunchy. Put it this way...I won't pass it along, I will throw it out. I'm in recovery and I suffer from mild-bi-polar...she insults me.