Drinking with Men

A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars Rosie Schaap has always loved bars the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at fifteen she told commuters fortunes in exchange for beer, and continuing today as she slings cocktails at a neighborhood joint in Brooklyn, Schaap has learned her way around both sides of a bar and come to realize how powerful the fellowship among regular patrons can be In Drinking with Men, Schaap shares her unending quest for the perfect local haunt, which takes her from a dive outside Los Angeles to a Dublin pub full of poets, and from small town New England taverns to a character filled bar in Manhattan s TriBeCa Drinking alongside artists and expats, ironworkers and soccer fanatics, she finds these places offer a safe haven, a respite, and a place to feel most like herself In rich, colorful prose, Schaap brings to life these seedy, warm, and wonderful rooms Drinking with Men is a love letter to the bars, pubs, and taverns that have been Schaap s refuge, and a celebration of the uniquely civilizing source of community that is bar culture at its best. Download Drinking with Men Author Rosie Schaap – kino-fada.fr Rosie Schaap has written a very honest, insightful, accurate, readable, and interesting memoir and she s just in her early forties Three cheers and five stars, and boy does it make me yearn for the good old days, when I was young Ms Schaap opens with the statement that she has probably spent 13,000 hours in bars Well, my number is 50,000 See, I used to tend bar, in my 20s, 30s, and 40s and I can say with certainty that she tells it as it was, and probably still is, but to a lesser degr Rosie Schaap has written a very honest, insightful, accurate, readable, and interesting memoir and she s just in her early forties Three cheers and five stars, and boy does it make me yearn for the good old days, when I was young Ms Schaap opens with the statement that she has probably spent 13,000 hours in bars Well, my number is 50,000 See, I used to tend bar, in my 20s, 30s, and 40s and I can say with certainty that she tells it as it was, and probably still is, but to a lesser degree as it seems coffee shops and tea houses have replaced the neighborhood bar as informal community gathering places and also people, in general, seem less inclined to talk with each other face to face with loosened minds and tongues, with friends, co workers, and neighbors preferring to chat or text or blog onli...I can t say it wasn t what I expected, but it was not what I wanted to read I like bars, and I like to drink But none of these recent memoirs about bar culture have satisfied me I m thinking of The Tender Bar and that one by the lesbian New Yorker who buys a bar on the Hudson Schaap s Introduction successfully got me in the bar room door, if you will But the book didn t deliver on the promise of a thoughtful meditation on bar culture and what it feels like to be a woman who freque I can t say it wasn t what I expected, but it was not what I wanted to read I lik...As a man, and a writer and someone who enjoys a drink I m happy to add this little book to my library of books on bars Seriously Here Rosie Schaap s memoir will sit alongside Pete Hamill s A Drinking Life, J.R Moehring s Tender Bar, and Malachy McCourt s several titles As a look at the intricacies of the bar culture, Drinking With Men displays a joyful abandon and a new point of view It arrives at a few important conclusions regarding the unwritten rules of bar conduct that guarantee safe p As a man, and a writer and someone who enjoys a drink I m happy to add this little book to my library of books on bars Seriously Here Rosie Schaap s memoir will sit alongside Pete Hamill s A Drinking Life, J.R Moehring s Tender Bar, and Malachy McCourt s several titles As a look at the intricacies of the bar culture, Drinking With Men displays a joyful abandon and a new point of view It arrives at a few important conclusions regarding the unwritten rules of bar conduct that guarantee safe passage But there shere tha...Disclaimer I received a free copy from the Goodreads First Reads Program This book is advertised as a memoir I was rather disappointed Schaap essentially fills nearly 300 pages of a book with ramblings of her drinking escapades I was expecting to hear great stories of friendships and what not This book readslike someone s diary tha...I quite enjoy drinking in bars and have been a regular at my fair share But I can t help feeling sorry for Rosie Schaap A line from U2 keeps playing in my head, I still haven t found what I m looking for She just seems like such a lost soul to me Constantly searching for a place to feel accepted Moving on to the next bar when the specialness wears off I can t believe how much the author exposes of herself while never really examining her motives I believe we will be hearingfrom t I quite enjoy drinking in bars and have been a regular at my fair share But I can t help feeling sorry for Rosie Schaap A line from U2 keeps playing in my head, I still haven t found what I m looking for She just seems like such a lost soul to me Constantly searching for a place to feel accepted Moving on to the next bar when the specialness wears off I can t believe how much the aut...This book is my world I have never read something that has touched my soul so much From the first page to the last page Rosie expresses every feeling I have ever had about bartending and drinking at bars and the relationships that comes from these experiences I laughed, I cried, I reminisced Such a beautiful life Thank you so much for sharing it with me so that I know I am not alone, and that even if it is just you that feels the same way that I do about having a second home in a bar, than This book is my world I have never read something that has touched my soul so much From the first page to the last page Rosie expresses every feeling I have ever had about bartending and drinking at bars and the relations...Drinking with Men is a collection of Schaap s recollections of her favorite drinking holes, beginning as a teenager in New York City and ending, um, in New York, with a notable absence of personal growth in between Harsh Maybe Maybe I m being especially hard on Schaap because I get everything she says about the amazing feeling of fitting in somewhere, somewhere, to quote Cheers, where everybody knows your name I ve been a girl who loves bars, who enjoyed heated discussions and heart to h Drinking with Men is a collection of Schaap s recollections of her favorite drinking holes, beginning as a teenager in New York City and ending, um, in New York, with a notable absence of personal growth in between Harsh Maybe Maybe I m being especially hard on Sc...Drinking with Men by Rosie Schaap, published by Riverhead Books.Category MemoirWhen I read the promos for this book I was excited about getting a copy and reading it It looked like a book that was not only interesting but unusual It is the memoir of Rosie Schaap who took a liking, no a loving, for bars Bars are usually the haunts of men and few if any women can be found there Rosie becomes infatuated with the people she finds in bars She becomes friends with artists, soccer fans, teache Drinking with Men by Rosie Schaap, published by Riverhead Books.Category MemoirWhen I read the promos for this book I was excited about getting a copy and reading it It looked like a book that was not only interesting but unusual It is the memoir of Rosie Schaap who took a liking, no a loving, for bars Bars are usually the haunts of men and few if any women can be found there Rosie becomes infatuated with the people she finds in bars She becomes friends with artists, soccer fans, teachers and many others in various stages of t...I have a soft spot for bar culture and bar characters, but Drinking with Men was frankly a chore to finish Rosie Schaap is a contributor to This American Life and her memoir reads like a 269 page segment of the show earnest, eccentric in a NPR sort of way, episodic in nature She gives us a collection of neat little bow tied anecdotes the writing is efficient, tangential at times, and almost never particularly evocative Schaap includes what may be the most boring story published in th I have a soft spot for bar culture and bar characters, but Drinking with Men was frankly a chore to finish Rosie Schaap is a contributor to This American Life and her memoir reads like a 269 page segment of the show earnest, eccentric in a NPR sort of way, episodic in nature She gives us a collecti...I love a memoir, and I love a cozy bar But I was a little bit anxious about reading Rosie Schaap s new memoir, Drinking With Men, because I was afraid it would be a gritty memoir of alcoholism and ugly bar encounters Nope Not even close Drinking With Men may be about bars, but it is engaging, gentle, and strangely wholesome It s a happy family memoir, only in this case, the family is the cheerfully raffish crew of bar regulars with whom Schaap has made common cause over the years.Schaap dev I love a memoir, and I love a cozy bar But I was a little bit anxious abo...

• English
• 01 March 2018
Rosie Schaap
• Hardcover
• 288 pages
• 1594487111
• Rosie Schaap
• Drinking with Men