Jennifer weiner all fall down free download audio

Aubrey is a normal person. Granted her life is a little hectic, she's a mother to a very sensitive five year old, she spends about sixty hours a week blogging, has a father with alzeheimers, and is constantly wondering what is wrong with her marriage.

Little by little these things start to add up and as they do the little pills her doctor gave her for medical problems start to multiply and take over her life. At first the pills start to make her feel better, to cope with the stress of her life. However, it doesn't take long for them to take over her mental and emotional state.

What started as one or two pills a day has turned into 15 or 30 Oxycontins, Percocets, or Vicodins just to be able to function. Aubrey realizes that things are starting to get out of control and tells herself that once she's done dealing with all the stress she'll start to cut back. Inevitably, like the title suggests, all fall down. A great story that anyone with questions about addiction or the ramifications caused by it, should read.

Definitely Jennifer Weiner's best book to date. I've been a fan of Jennifer Weiner from her first novel, Good in Bed. Her latest book, All Fall Down, has just released. You know that analogy about the duck gliding serenely across the surface of the water - but what you can't see is how fast its feet are moving under the water? Well that is Allison Weiss's life. On the surface she has it all - a beautiful home, a handsome husband, an adorable daughter and a very successful career as a blogger.

But lately her husband Dave has become distant, her daughter Ellie has behaviour issues, their house still looks like they just moved in, there are financial worries, her father has onset dementia, her mother isn't coping and the pressure to produce for the blog is all adding to the stress and pressure in Allison's life. The answer? A pill, or two, or three But she's not an addict, right?

She can control it. And cut back if she wants to. As Weiner's tale unravels, so does Allie's life. The reader can empathize with her busy life and her stressors and can almost And we can only watch as Allie's life mirrors that roller coaster on the cover and plunges downward. Allison is not always a likable character - and that's to be expected given her situation. But I did like her voice. The supporting cast was a mixed bag.

I thought Allie's mother's story was just as heartbreaking and telling. I was disappointed in Dave - he had suspicions of what was going on with Allie, but chose to not 'push' the issue, until things were far beyond the point of no return.

What's frightening is that this book is not so far removed from the truth. Addiction doesn't always take place in a back alley in a bad part of town. I thought the ending was perfect - because life rarely is. While Weiner's earlier books had more of a 'chick lit' feel to them, her later works tackle more serious subjects - contemporary women, their issues, emotions, thoughts and modern day life.

She does it with warmth, humour, compassion and a sense of reality. Solid storytelling. This book made me see how it was possible for an affluent, well educated mother to fall into addiction.

Weiner skillfully gets inside the head of her protagonist, Allison Weiss, showing how her thoughts become more confused and desperate as she sinks deeper into her disease.

She avoids the trap of an unambiguous happy ending, and sugar coats nothing. My only complaint is that Dave, Allison's husband, is not well defined, but that could be because during her addiction, Allison has trouble seeing him as he is.

I'd recommend this book to anyone. When a book hits home, especially one about addiction it is hard to write just about the story with out the affect it had on ones self. I have chronic pain and take opiates for it. That is my reason, or excuse. I logically know that I can not lead anywhere close to a normal life without keeping the pain under control.

However, when I read this book I realize how close I am to being an addict and how easy it is to make up all the explanations in my mind to explain the use of opiates away How easy it is for Drs to prescribe them and how hard for the patients to deal with the aftermath This was a life changing book and because it hit home it was raw and real. I listened to it on books on CD.

Realistic story about drug abuse. Well done story which did not have a "pat pat ending". All Fall Down by Jennifer WeinerAlicia Wice has a full plate-taking care of her ailing aging parents, married and have a teen daughter and working.

She reads a magazine article and she discovers she is addicted to painkillers, pops them like breath mints.

Then others find out and intervene. The rest is how she goes to rehab and I learn so much about the problem. Life on the outside after rehab is a bit frightening as she is so close to using again Tracee Chimo as the reader for the audio was excellent! You actually feel as though you are listening to Allison tell you about everything that happened. Chimo's voice for Eloise was priceless! But what a tough storycompellingly believable. Weiner is so descriptivethe details make the difference in taking you right along with Allison through her addictive, no pun intended, story.

I just wanted to keep listening to see what would happen next. Do you ever pick a book without knowing anything about it? That's what happened with this one, and it turned out to be a winner in my book! I've always liked rollercoasters so maybe that is what attracted me to this novel. This audiobook turned out to be a rollercoaster ride of Allison's life that was non-stop, from beginning to end. It doesn't take long to catch on to her abuse of prescription painkillers, as with every little crisis in her day, she finds herself needing to pop a pill to get her through the next couple of hours.

Wiener did a wonderful job of of relaying the thought process of someone addicted to painkillers. I've heard of people seeking prescriptions from various doctors, and this method is explored in this novel.

Give as a Gift Send this book as a Gift! Book Rating Date: June Duration: 12 hours 41 minutes. Similar Titles. Reviews Natalie H. Dawn S. Margie R. Melissa Grant. Jenna Gullickson. Meredith Dalton. Lindsay Lanphere.

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But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her mother's barely dealing at all.

As she struggles to hold her home and work life together, and meet all of the needs of the people around her, Allison finds that the painkillers she was prescribed for a back injury help her deal with more than just physical discomfort--they help her feel calm and get her through her increasingly hectic days. They have been reprinted in newspapers across the world.

So used her platform to encourage women to improve their self-esteem and body images. Cart Help Sign In. Submit Search. Synopsis From 1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer WeinerAllison Weiss got her happy ending—a handsome husband, adorable daughter, a job she loves, and the big house in the suburbs. Reviews Write A Review.