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Hi Mizz,
This is a great link, it has a ton of recovery related books listed. You may be able to check some out of the library, I use the Libby app to do that. A few of my favorites were:
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...ependence.html (Books on Recovery, Spirituality & Codependence)
This is a great link, it has a ton of recovery related books listed. You may be able to check some out of the library, I use the Libby app to do that. A few of my favorites were:
- Drinking a Love Story
- Lit
- Blackout
- Drink
- Mommy Doesn’t Drink Here Anymore
- Between Breaths
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...ependence.html (Books on Recovery, Spirituality & Codependence)
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Originally Posted by Chancellor 
I'm reading The Heroin Diaries which is really speaking to the alcoholic in me but also my musical career side as well.
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I like to read the Bible. It's a good book but also the Good Book, so that's hard to top.
I read a lot but not much about drinking or sobriety. I did buy one of Mary Karr's drinking memoirs but haven't read it yet, it's called Lit. I was curious about her because David Foster Wallace dated her and then stalked her for awhile after that.
I'm reading a biography of Kurt Vonnegut right now, And So It Goes. It's a little depressing tbh, evidently Kurt was a bitter old wreck toward the end there but I'm taking it with a grain of salt. I really like biographies of writers a lot. Blake Bailey's Cheever: A Life about John Cheever is extraordinary, for instance. Cheever, in addition to being featured on Seinfeld, was also a degen drunk who somehow managed to pull things together at last. Bailey's official Philip Roth bio is coming out later this year I think. Oh and Frances Wilson has a new DH Lawrence one coming too.
I read a lot but not much about drinking or sobriety. I did buy one of Mary Karr's drinking memoirs but haven't read it yet, it's called Lit. I was curious about her because David Foster Wallace dated her and then stalked her for awhile after that.
I'm reading a biography of Kurt Vonnegut right now, And So It Goes. It's a little depressing tbh, evidently Kurt was a bitter old wreck toward the end there but I'm taking it with a grain of salt. I really like biographies of writers a lot. Blake Bailey's Cheever: A Life about John Cheever is extraordinary, for instance. Cheever, in addition to being featured on Seinfeld, was also a degen drunk who somehow managed to pull things together at last. Bailey's official Philip Roth bio is coming out later this year I think. Oh and Frances Wilson has a new DH Lawrence one coming too.
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Thank you for this recommendation. I read some recent reviews and they were all favourable, will put this on my list to purchase. 
Originally Posted by MissPerfumado
I got a lot of out Under the Influence, by Milam and Ketcham.
A real oldie but goodie, written in 1981! I don't think the science in it has been superseded. It really opened my eyes to the physiology of how alcoholics process alcohol compared to non-alcoholics. Not preachy, just factual. It made me appreciate I had a disease and it was up to me to treat it responsibly, with sobriety!
A real oldie but goodie, written in 1981! I don't think the science in it has been superseded. It really opened my eyes to the physiology of how alcoholics process alcohol compared to non-alcoholics. Not preachy, just factual. It made me appreciate I had a disease and it was up to me to treat it responsibly, with sobriety!
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