Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity (Audiobook)

from Katie_H

I'm torn on this one. "Loose Girl" was a quick and engaging read, and an interesting memoir, but, after having read the description on the back, it was different than I had expected. Yes, Kerry, was a troubled girl, and yes, she was promiscuous, but I do not believe that she was suffering from se...

from dysmonia

On the one hand, there's the same old modern tale: pretty white girl with problems turns to booze/other drugs/sex/bulimia to try to gain some control over her emotionally shattered life. On the other, there's the fact Kerry Cohen has a beautiful voice as a writer and weaves an aching, visceral me...

from TheScrappyCat

Kerry Cohen touched a nerve for me with her 'Memoir of Promiscuity'. I, too, was one of 'those' girls, the ones the boys snickered about, the ones shunned by the 'good' girls. I understood what she meant when she said that what she really wanted and hoped for, with every encounter, was love. I ge...

from superfastreader

The most striking thing about Kerry Cohen's Loose Girl is the inevitability of her misbehavior. Cohen's parents divorced when she was a preteen, and neither one seems able to practice any kind of responsible or involved parenting. Her dad is the kind of guy who asks for a toke when he catches his...

from supertalya

I love coming of age tales. It was a gripping story that pulled you right in to Kerry's life. I don't particularly feel as if it were a story of an addiction. It was a story of extreme self-concept issues. I knew so many girls like her and in one small point in my life - without all her drug stor...