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" "Lighting Up" is about the author's struggle to overcome her addictions to cigarettes. Along the way she discovers, through therapy, that she has an addictive personality and she ends up cutting certain food (no more bread!), drugs, and other unhealthy, unproductive things out of her life. As a result of this and her therapy sessions, she becomes a more focused and better writer. She also gets married and has a better grasp on what a healthy relationship should include.
Many people will see themselves in this book as Shapiro struggles to give up cigarettes only to replace them with her substitute "drug" of choice "Blow Pops.""
Krysten Weller, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Phys disability/mental struggle?
Yes
Struggle with
- drugs
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- writer
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- Jew
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other people
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 9 ()
City?
Yes
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- encouraged
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- gentle
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of hetero sex
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- love/sex
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
Lot of titilating info about love life?
Yes
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