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Overall, I like Cheryl and think she writes beautifully, but sometimes her responses to the letters she’s received (which are seeking advice from her) leave me stunned and saying, “What the fuck?” And a lot of them feel like she’s enjoying the smell of her own farts too much.

I’ve grown to hate this book but I have three hours of reading to go. There was a whole big science-y section where everyone is horrified for some reason, and I have no idea why they’re horrified because it went over my head even though I have a decent grasp of this stuff. AND the protagonist basically gave the villain the info he needs. Dumb.

Wowwww, Kurt Cobain tried to get in touch with Mark multiple times the day Kurt committed suicide, and Mark blew him off so he could stay home and do drugs. If Mark Lanegan had picked up the phone, maybe Kurt would still be alive. What a horrible thing to live with.

I appreciate that the author seems to either have a strong science background or has done an enormous amount of research, and I’m typically interested in this sort of stuff, but the pacing of this book is slow and it’s kind of dull.

This book isn’t bad but it isn’t good and I’m kind of over it.

I have no memory of reading any of this book in the past, but I keep stumbling upon highlighted sections (which were clearly highlighted by me), so this book didn’t leave much of an impression on me, I guess.

I don’t know why this book got so much hype. It tells you what probably went wrong in your life but it doesn’t tell you how to deal with it. Great. My mom wasn’t good at being a mom. We all knew that. This book could’ve been 1/4 the length. Most of it feels like filler.

He seems like a miserable and unpleasant man, someone to avoid at all costs, but he does tell a good story.

I saw Sleater-Kinney on Tuesday and now I have a rock crush on Carrie.

Oh this is heartbreaking actually. I saw this coming, but not like this.

I have mixed feelings about Dr. Drew but I give him points for being honest about how broken the system is, and a lot of it is due to insurance companies not wanting to cover adequate care. There’s a conversation he recounts where he says the patient will relapse and lose their job, and the insurance people tell him, basically, “Good. Then they won’t be our problem (expense) anymore.”

I don’t know anything about Screaming Trees, but this memoir was on sale and the sample was good. I’m enjoying it but all of the people in this book sound like real pieces of shit.

I’m reading too much non fiction and so I’ve added a zombie novel to the mix.

This book got a lot of hype but I don’t think it’s very good. There were some paragraphs in it that were good, but most of it leaves me asking, “Who is this for?” It describes the damage done but it doesn’t say what to do about any of it—or I haven’t gotten to that part yet? No idea.

I think I got this for free. It’s so dumb. I’m embarrassed to put it on my profile but I READ IT AND SO IT COUNTS TOWARD MY GOAL hahaha

I’m fairly certain that I read, in the beginning of this book, that this is NOT a parenting book and shouldn’t be thought of as one… and then nearly the whole book is about what babies need. I don’t understand why this book was so hyped. There’s a lot of stuff where I’m like, “Ok so my mom fucked up in every possible way,” but it isn’t helpful info, because it’s not solutions-focused.

It’s very weird how he keeps mentioning he’s attracted to his patient. No one is making you admit that in your book! Those are private thoughts!

I don’t really like Dr. Drew at all but this book is pretty good.

****Spoiler**** but a high school student sexually assaulted her teacher, and now I’m like, ok, are we going to acknowledge that’s what it was or are we going to pretend like “ha ha she’s just a horny teenager”?? Because what the fuck. This is so uncomfortable. I don’t like this book. (I grabbed it because it was available from the library.)

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Sooo good. I’ve been reading this book very slowly, to let it sink in. It’s very well written, and also horrifying. It’s an important book.

This is an interesting science book but Mary’s witty footnotes get so tedious. I keep thinking, “You made me stop what I was reading—AGAIN—because you thought you were very funny.” It’s less irritating when she provides important context and makes a joke while doing so, but when she does it JUST to make a joke, or goes on much longer than necessary so that she can make a joke, it’s obnoxious.

I haven’t read this book since the 90s, I think. Early 00s, maybe.

I understand the need for footnotes in a science-heavy book like this, but each one is a speed bump, slowing down the flow of the book. Mary seems to try to compensate for that by making them funny, but it also makes them longer, and that often gets annoying. I wish she’d reel it in a bit.

This is very sad, but she’s so detached and matter-of-fact about it. She was the drummer of Hole, fired by Courtney Love while recording Celebrity Skin, even though she was clean at the time, and then spirals hard into drugs, eventually becoming homeless and engaging in prostitution to pay for drugs. Fuck.

Funny that this book finally got interesting and it’s Kim talking shit on Courtney Love lol. Hate her as much as you want, but she’s the most interesting part of everyone’s story. We want to watch the trainwreck, the chaos.

I’m at the 45% mark and maybe they’re finally starting Sonic Youth. Maybe. But I’ve said that two or three times before.