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Date added: 26.3.2015
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This addiction (survivor) memoir is a bit of a mess. We hear about Glydes parents and their emotionally distant/abusive relationship while she was growing up. At one point she says and I stopped talking to them for x years. But we never hear what the resolution was -- does she have a relationship with them now? And if so, how was that healed/negotiated? Overall, the book was disjointed ---- chapters are interspersed that bring you out of her story --- they read like self-help columns for people looking to stop drinking or quiz themselves about whether they have a drinking problem along with short treatises on related but diverse subjects like womens body self-images, the English and their attitudes towards drinking, scientific studies about alcohol, and even astrology (yes, astrology). Were these magazine columns that were rejected? She also mentions that she becomes involved in the S&M world -- has she really recovered or simply found another form of self-abuse? I was interested in reading about a British womans experience with alcohol addiction and Glyde is a good writer but I found her to be an unlikeable narrator--- she writes scornfully of her parents class anxiety/posing but somehow always makes a point of telling us how shes more posh than her fellow addicts. Cleaning Up by Tania Glyde
