Discover Nothing Good Can Come From This Brought To You By Kristi Coulter Presented As Hardbound

new favorite book for me to sit alongside the work of Cheryl Strayed, Heather Havrilesky and Sarah Hepola, I know a book will stay with me when I have to read it with my journal by my side because the author is prompting me to ask new questions about my own life to think and look back and wonder and write it all out.


A good book like this is on the level of a great conversation and that's the true accomplishment here from Coulter.
This book is like having a brutally honest, funny, sometimes sad, always interesting, opinionated friend right there beside you,

I've read a bunch of memoirs over the years and tend to like this approach better breaking your life up into essays that take a slice of experience and dive in deep to take a look.
"Enjoli" will be a revelation for those who haven't read it online yet but the shorter, sarcastic pieces on how to quit drinking are a treasure, too.
But I've basically highlighted the full essays "Girl Skulks into a Room," "Fascination" and "Pussy Triptych" because of all the great sentences that made me stop, only to pick up reading again and run into another great sentence.


A truly memorable debut and a mustread for any woman,

DISCLAIMER: I received an advance egalley of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review This was the absolute worst.
The entire book she sounds entitled with her

cushy job that pays too much, I thought this would be more of her journey to sobriety, but honestly, I didnt get that much at all,

Maybe Ive become cynical of essays and memoirs, But not everyone is interesting enough for a memoir, This is a well written memoir and the author lives in Seattle so that was interesting to me, It's a quick read but I guess I was expecting more due to the high ratings here, I loved these essays. Coulter is a sharp writer, full of wisdom and humor, I think humor is one of the hardest forms to master I sure haven't, and Coulter is brilliant at it: warm and compassionate and incisively funny.
She dissects how the pressures of being a woman today can lead down the compromising path of addiction, This collection of essays is openhearted, gutwrenchingly honest and real, Do I need all of the addiction memoirs I read to feature serious drama Fifty percent of the book showcasing mortifying scenes of the author's obvious plummet to rock bottom followed by the other fifty percent spent in rehab with a mostly happy ending I definitely don't think everyone needs to stick to the same wellworn formula, but I found this particular memoir a little disconnected.
I just didn't fully feel on board with the author, and couldn't figure out why I wasn't really getting into her stories, Upon reflection, I decided that her anecdotes were told at surface level without digging deep enough, Yes, she got drunk a lot and, yes, she was quite aware of how much she was drinking and was able to justify her habit for a good chunk of years.
She acted out of character when drunk and was worried about her consumption, yet when she finally vocalized her worries to her husband, he just basically backed her up and didn't identify it as being a big deal.
Even at the chapter where she did something that would have shattered most marriages, her behaviour was basically shrugged off,

We follow the author as she tries to navigate life without alcohol, yet I never really sensed an intense struggle tied to her drinking.
It was more allusions to her having reached a certain place in sobriety or craving drinks or replacing drinking with running, but I felt that her stories just skimmed the surface.
So it's not to say that I doubt that she felt shame and discouragement and issues around selfesteem, but by not writing fully about the emotional sides of whatever brought her to this place and how she felt during her drinking years and when she quit, as a reader of story, her drinking somehow didn't really feel like a big deal to me either though I'm sure in reality, it absolutely was a big deal and it was a monstersized issue she had to battle.
It was, after all, big enough for her to write an entire book about, Again, do I need my narrators to suffer terribly Definitely not, but I'd like to gain a bit more insight into what led her to drinking in the first place and to perhaps delve deeper into her feelings, I suppose, so I could root her on and feel more connected to her highs and lows.


Overall, it was an interesting read, but one I feel could have benefited from more introspection, And while I'm not always fully on board with happy endings in fiction, I'm always more than happy when addiction memoirs end in a happy place.

"This is why I drank, you know, Because I wanted every day to be like that, I wanted every day to feel like a movie montage, or at least to end in an epiphany, or at least to have a clear narrative arc, or at least to make some level of sense.
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A memoir told in essay form, Nothing Good Can Come from This, is the nonchronological tale of Coulters life from alcoholic to sober woman.
As with most books of essays some were stronger than others, but on a whole Coulter does a great job of making you feel her emotion and understand her journey.
Feminism, love, politics, and culture all make an appearance and create for some hardhitting, and sometimes humorous, stories and anecdotes,

"What's a girl to do when a bunch of dudes have just told her, in front of an audience, that she's wrong about what it's like to be herself

I can see some people finding this a bit "woe is me" as she is an upper class white female with a good job, loving husband, and a childhood only partially marred by her parents.
I, however, think it goes to show that alcoholism can consume anyone, not just those with downtrodden lives or no money in the bank.

"Take away my money or my extreme whiteness, and it might be clear that getting a lot of ethanol into my bloodstream as fast as possible is all I really care about.
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This is one of the rare collections that can change lives and I dont say that lightly, Coulter writes frankly about getting sober with essays that detail her life before, during, and after, She writes about becoming a runner, the bullshit women have to deal with, and the human condition in general, The cover caught my attention, but the writing is very good, too, And shes funny. I loved it!

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I wasn't expecting much when I picked up NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM THIS, which is maybe why it completely blew all of my preconceived notions of what it would be about out of the water.
Rather than being the typical navelgazing novel written by your average misanthropic GenYer, NOTHING GOOD CAN COME OF THIS is reminiscent of early David Sedaris.
It's an utterly bitter, utterly hilarious memoir of alcoholism, womanhood, and adulthood,



I devoured this memoir, It was so good. Kristi Coulter has so many valid points about how society drives people to drink, and how it can make people especially women feel both vulnerable and empowered.
So many crucial moments of her life revolved around drink, and it became a crutch that she used to compensate for difficult moments.
She never absolves herself of personal responsibility, which I liked, and she makes a point of showing how difficult it is to live with addiction.




NOTHING GOOD CAN COME OF THIS is a really poignant memoir that made me laugh and also gave me all the feels.
There are a lot of "alcoholism" memoirs out there, but this is definitely one of the better ones I've ever read, You should read it, too!



Thanks to Netgalley/the publisher for the review copy!



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