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Book review: Rebecka Åhlund write soberly about alcohol in a spritmarinerad culture

A productive, fun, and crisp, columnist, journalist and author, who suddenly finds that she is an alcoholic and is writing a book about it? Sigh. Our time and t

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Book review: Rebecka Åhlund write soberly about alcohol in a spritmarinerad culture

A productive, fun, and crisp, columnist, journalist and author, who suddenly finds that she is an alcoholic and is writing a book about it? Sigh. Our time and the curse: all the possible halvkändisar write superficial memoir at twenty-three years of age and tells us about his big traumas, which they have lived with for several months.

Think I, at least, prejudiced, before Rebekah Åhlunds ”I was so fun to drink wine with”. Although she is middle-aged and write good children's books, and some true stories are interesting.

ten pages to understand that she really is an alcoholic, in a scary fast descent where she hides bottles, beat half to death while drunk, himself to pour themselves wine at nine in the morning, is full, when she fetches the children in the school.

She lives in London with husband and two daughters, a toppenliv where she is freelancing and meeting people. In London! That is so charming with pubs every ten feet and no ridiculous Swedish förbudsinställning. There are vinhyllor in the convenience store, there are available alcohol just about anywhere, why would you want to grab a coffee when you could just as well drink the wine and she is fun, she is a spirited partypingla as cleans as wildly as the men (it is of course a bit of a feminist, just there).

And so all ledsnare children, who are increasingly asking her to refrain from drinking.

She examines the present, and gives a frightening picture of a society that just gets out of hand, where the alcohol become part of daily life.

anxiety and had been unable to become unbearably heavy, but Rebecka Åhlund balances it skillfully with the drastic sense of humor and does not let the alcoholic's förnedringsväg take too large space. She go soon on his first encounter with Fight Club, which her Alcoholics Anonymous called, in the basement of a church.

Then she is sober. And remain sober. And it is much more boring to read about someone who can handle his life. It is only others who have been in similar situations, which can realize the immense relief to cope with normal everyday life day to day. For all others, it becomes, well, a little boring. And is it not very boring with abstainers to destroy all the parties and do not make how fun the people will become after a few glasses?

Rebecka Åhlund pulls as well is not to be exactly the festförstöraren, but discovers along the way how much alcohol an integral part of our socialising. All that tells us on social media if tjejträffar where the glasses of champagne are an obvious feature, all of the dinners where the wine is flowing, all wine tastings and wonderful holidays where you can truly relax with a drink already on the date. Or two. Or twelve.

a part of our culture since a very long time. But when Rebecka Åhlund is a sober piece of glass in the eye, she can ask the question: is it worth all the damage? She examines the contemporary and gives a frightening picture of a society that is just beginning to derail, where alcohol become part of daily life and must be spiked with drugs for it to be marked when it is party time.

that leaves the alcohol see the consequences, and ends up outside. A different life, but the anxiety remains, cans behind each sentence. It happens so easily again. He was sober in twenty-four years and staunchly walked past all the pubs. Until one day he went in again.

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