Drinking with Men

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......more

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 intricaci......more

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. Suc......more

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, ge......more

Ok- here is the thing. If you write a memoir, you should at least have enough insight to show that you are growing and learning. Your story should enlighten (at best), resonate, or entertain (at the very least) your reader. Sadly Schaap's memoir did none of the above. I got exactly two laughs out of......more