Lit

I read Mary Karr's Lit a little reluctantly since it's described as somewhat spiritual and after a run-in with Annie LaMott's "spirituality" I am wary of anything with that word attached. It's Karr's memoir of her struggle with alcoholism which craving for "shadowed (her) every waking instant". It's as you can imagine a sad story but she has a slangy loose writing style that reads easily and she can be very honest at times. She writes about alcohol in such luminous prose that you can feel the seduction. The drinks sound great! I must confess I was a little bored when she got sober and "spiritual" which happens inevitably. Coffee and eating canned frosting straight with a bunch of AA'ers is somehow not as appetizing. Oh well.