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Drinking Games by Sarah Levy

5 reviews

lbh_0327's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

thepaperbackbruncher's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

In a culture driven by alcohol, where every social gathering seems to be surrounded and connected to it, Sarah Levy challenges you to rethink the way you view alcohol.

In this memoir, she explains how alcohol infiltrated her life, and took over. Even if you yourself aren't an alcoholic or don't have issues with over consumption, you will find valuable lessons and insight within her story. I found it fascinating to get inside the reason of why people drink, drink to excess, and how we can reevaluate our relationships, social scenarios, and lives, to how they relate to drinking alcohol.

For someone who doesn't read a lot of memoirs, or knew nothing of Sarah prior to this book, I still felt connected to her and this story. It was well written, and a page-turning experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming and Panic attacks/disorders

sarahsbookstacks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Eating disorder, and Panic attacks/disorders

sleeson's review against another edition

inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

2.0

Thank you to NetGalley for the chance to listen to this audiobook. It was an honest memoir surrounding the author and her challenges with drinking. I found the author relatable. It was lighthearted. I felt the author could have shared more of the difficult times she encountered while attempting to quit drinking, but it’s her memoir. I wouldn’t suggest to use this book for an AA meeting. However, if someone wanted a recommendation of books about quitting alcohol, I might suggest this one. Mild sexual content. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

caseythereader's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.5

Thanks to St. Martins Press for the free advance copy of this book.

 - DRINKING GAMES is part substance abuse memoir, part dissection of the larger role alcohol plays in our lives today.
- I liked Levy's point that she and many others convince themselves that their drinking isn't a problem because they can still hold down a job, friends, etc., and pointing out that not only is "rock bottom" different for everyone, but that you don't need to reach it to change your relationship to alcohol.
- I am someone who quit drinking relatively recently, and something that really resonated with me was Levy's description of how small things suddenly bring outsized joy. For me, when not dealing with the highs and lows that come with drinking, I began to find great pleasure in things as small as a fuzzy blanket or a new kind of candy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail