AA Grapevine

Had all three volumes of the "Best of the Grapevine" around the house for some twenty years or so and finally got around to reading this first volume. Highly recommended, as including several articles by Bill, one by Bob, some articles by doctors like Silkworth, Bill's correspondence with Carl Jung, and an article by Lois.

What I especially liked, though, was the twelve articles, randomly scattered through this volume, each pertaining to a different one of the Traditions, often tying a show more tradition in to some aspect of individual recovery – a subject rarely encountered either in meetings or in print.

Hoping to get around to the other two volumes in the next few months or so. show less

This collection is very scattered to say the least. Apart from covering prominent writers of the Romantic era and some others of Pre-modernist era with relative efficacy, the criteria of inclusion feels very obscure and poorly executed.

Since no collection can be all inclusive, we could look beyond that to some extent. But what is really off setting is the formatting (absolutely terrible at some points) and the three-quarter-page illustrations that pop up between poems for no reason. A poem show more by Lord Byron is wrongly titled (She Walks in Beauty) which is inexcusable.

Also pieces by Mirza Ghalib, Homer and Dante Alighieri have no mention of the translator.

Would not recommend this collection. show less

I have found all the stories interesting and helpfull.

365 Inspiring Passages from the AA Grapevine, softcover.