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I‘m not sure I‘ve ever read anyone more personally revealing than Augusten Burroughs. I became so invested in his relationships that I really couldn‘t put the book down. He is often compared to David Sedaris (whom I adore) but I‘d say Burroughs is edgier. ❤️ #memoir #lgbtq

Lines like this are why I love Augusten Burroughs 🤣

I love Augusten Burroughs. That is all.

Usually I have to have music to keep me going at the gym (vs. an audiobook), but today Augusten Burroughs did the trick!

#LustforLife | This was Augusten‘s third memoir (after Running with Scissors and Dry). @Cinfhen I have no doubt you‘d hate this 😝, but I love him. He‘s he one who made me fall in love with memoir.

#marchintothe70s

Camping and Reading. Reading and camping. #lovesumner

I've been snatching up audiobooks left and right. I have 10 that need time and attention. So this is what's up today. #audiobooks #audioandcolor

Going to start this, and MUST finish it by Sunday to ensure i can pass it onto next reader in our #GoingPostalBookClub #BookSwapClub

The beginning and end were just ok but that middle part was excellent.

How the f**k did I get here? I thought. If I was going to be completely sober for the rest of my life, if I couldn't even have one drink at the end of a long and brittle day, then the life I lived needed to be a life from which I did not seek escape.

I read a terrible review of this book in The Washington Post after finishing the book. The reviewer asked why we needed to read more about this man's life. Seriously? I hope he keeps writing about his life until he's dead and gone. Burroughs is snarky and anxiety-ridden, broken and somewhat healed, all qualities I relate to. (I'm not as snarky as I used to be.) He echoes my feelings about being sober, both the positives and the negatives. 👍

Yup.

I'm going in. Please let this be funny. I need funny.

Augustan Burroughs in and Carol Burnett out in my #litsyatoz biography challenge. No worries though, CB is on my TBR list.

This was hilarious and insightful. Burroughs has grown up a lot, both in life and in writing. A very entertaining read.

Am I the only one who often finishes a book, wants to keep reading, and immediately starts a new one? I'm an Augusten Burroughs FANATIC so I don't expect his latest to disappoint! 📚

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This book was wonderful and so hard to put down. It was different than his other memoirs, but it was nice to read about this time in his life. I was fortunate enough to see him in Boston and hear him read from and speak about this book. It was a fantastic experience and I'm so glad I finally got around to reading it!

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Finally getting around to reading this... I'm so excited to dive in to another one of his memoirs! 😍📖

My therapist back in New York told me that one of my problems is that I create these elaborate fantasies- always of disaster- and then my emotional response engages as though it's actually happening.

Forever my favorite memoirist.

It's everything you'd expect from Augusten Burroughs - poignant, funny, vivid, sad. Predictability is not always bad.

Rosa and Rupert present...Lust & Wonder.
Nothing bad can come of this.

A very real and sometimes hilarious memoir!! Augusten Burroughs does not hold back!

As per usual, Burroughs has not disappointed me. I've loved everything I've read. Hilarious, emotional. Not as shocking as some of his other work, but still vastly touching and entertaining. I could hardly even put it down to work.

Was it a universal truth that the closer you looked at something, the more you would see but the less you would understand what you were looking at?

The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up.

It's not that I couldn't write any longer. It's that I was alive, and it was hard for me to pull myself away from it.

I mean, I am in love with you, and it's an eye-color kind of love, unchangeable and bright.

There was freedom, and then there was everything else. Freedom didn't come in degrees. It was an all-or-nothing proposition.
I wanted it all.

Certain things, true things, facts that are made of foot-thick steel and anchored miles deep into the earth, are comforting because they provide a fulcrum around which you work or plan or live or figure things out.

Next to "needing some space," perhaps "doing some thinking" was the worst phrase to hear from somebody you were dating.

When he smiled at me like that, I felt unbroken, and I felt safe. These were two things I thought I'd never feel with anyone.

As a rule, if I am offered a choice between two things, I will take both and then run.

It will drape a fresh, white cotton shirt over your shoulders, and even though this shirt will be three sizes too big, it will fit you better than any shirt ever has or ever will.

I've been waiting forever to get started on this one.

The reason I gave this a so-so rating is because it was rather depressing. Not that his books are necessarily happy, but they do have funny parts. This book focused on his failed relationships, and it was just kind of a downer. It does, however, have a happy ending.

As frank and funny as his other memoirs, though less emotional than "Dry" (and that's a good thing).

“They‘re giving me steroids to keep my energy up, which also increases my appetite, and then I gain weight,” he explained. “So I lost my hair and got fat. I‘m getting Uncle Fester chemo.”

Finished Joe Hill's The Fireman last night, and went straight into the latest Augusten Burroughs - for a change of pace and tone.

Picked up my first book of the summer. I know nothing of Augusten Burroughs, other than that he is found next to William S.. Jacket reads something about his humor. We shall see. Also, signed. Big selling point.

I can't wait to dive into this book soon! I'm so excited I got to meet Augusten when he was in Boston on his book tour 😄📚

Good book, but a little too much detail on some extremely personal encounters for me. 😉