Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

I started reading this book because I recently concluded an increasingly rambunctious four years of partying at SU, and it sounded like it'd be interesting to read someone else's accounts of and insights into the same drunken stumbles I made countless times across campus hill. The real impact of the book set in when I realized how much it resonates with my own experiences, and how relevant it is because of that. Granted I'm... Read Full Review

I found this book painful to read, on account of seeing myself in the author on every page. I congratulate her on cutting out old habits, however for now, I feel I find greater solace in the taste of cheap vodka. It's an absolutely brilliant book that almost moved me, and I should imagine, achieved in moving others to do something about the things we see in ourselves which make us sick to the stomach.

Koren is eloquent in her writing. This book serializes the brutal, but honest truth of teenage and college drinking. It illustrates just how caustic alcohol can be to the youth of today. It is a must read for anyone struggling with an alcohol problem within themselves or someone they know. A very creative and thought provoking book worth its weight in gold, to say the least . . .

Smashed was an amazing book. it should be on the required reading list for many teens and young women. Alchoholism is becoming a bigger and bigger issue with young people today, and i believe it would be beneficial for many people to read, even just to give them a heads up about the reality of alchohol, or even help them to realize their own problem. Smashed opens the doors of a truly amazing mind, and at the same time a former... Read Full Review

This is a well-written, seriously scary book that will likely have many readers cringing when they read about the problems alcohol led to for Zailckas. As someone with a young daughter, I found it to be both a cautionary tale and an engrossing memoir. For anyone who has an alcoholic or binge drinker in their family, you'll be able to relate on some level. For me, it was interesting to hear about the experience from the... Read Full Review