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I Wore The Ocean In The Shape Of A Girl (2011)

by Kelle Groom(Favorite Author)

3.21 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1451616686 (ISBN13: 9781451616682)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Free Press

review 1: The prose style is way too distracting for the subject matter. I can appreciate that the author probably chose to write her memoir in this particular form to evoke a sense of confusion to the reader (as she experienced herself as an alcoholic, blacking out frequently). However, to do so really took away from how she survived and overcame her addiction and other tragedies she endured. This book was not for me.
review 2: I was disappointed in Groom's book. As a person in recovery, I was looking for something well written that would give me hope and inspiration. In the preface, or some review, there was praise for the way the book moved about in time from chapter to chapter. I have read books that do this artfully; this book seemed to just need editing. I was ... moreconfused by the abrupt changes rather than intrigued. I also found the poetic license taken in the prose writing a little distracting.There is a section where she discusses having stayed in a colleague's home while he was out of the country or the state. She states that he was angry when he returned because she hadn't taken good care of the place. This all happened well after she was through her big troubles, so I was disappointed to see that she was disrespectful to someone who let her stay in his home free. When we write a recovery book, we want to inspire people in recovery with how we've improved, so this section made me scratch my head. There was no discussion of why she did not take care of the place, as if it didn't matter. I felt the book petered out at the end and devolved into an extended exercise in grief over a child - such that the book seemed to swerve from one theme, recovery from addiction, to another, recovery from grief over a child. I just found the book fragmented and confusing, and anticlimactic. I wish I had better things to say about it. The title is quite interesting. less

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