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Drinking With Men: A Memoir (2013)

by Rosie Schaap(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1594487111 (ISBN13: 9781594487118)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: I can see why this book got an award from NPR for 2013, it's great! I did not know when I started reading this memoir was that the author, Rosie Schaap, was the daughter of a sportscaster I had really liked back in the day, Dick Schaap. She must have some of his writing genes because this is a very interesting and well written journal of her rather unique life thus far. Two thumbs way up for this book!
review 2: I have a few issues with this book. I started to read it in the interest of examining regular hood which is something that intrigues me. I found the author's assertion that this type of feeling is if not only available at is best found in a corner/ neighborhood bar very wrong. Being a regular somewhere does provide with a feeling of home but it is the e... morexclusive province of bars. It can occur in coffee shops, the place you eat lunch everyday, or a hotel you stay in regularly. Additionally her thoughts on why more women aren't regulars in bars boil down to they just don't want to be. I find that very simplistic particularly since she describes several interactions that indicate that the men she is drinking with do see her a possible sexual partner and with that comes awkwardness and difficulty. Sometimes you read a memoir to find out that someone thinks just as you do and sometimes you read one to experience thought processes completely alien to yours, this was completely alien in the way that it made me want to argue and intervene with her every step of the way. less

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