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Drinking Games by Sarah Levy

6 reviews

dearkatie's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.5

A series of raw essays that were honest and sometimes tough to read, but also hopeful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Vomit, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

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

jordansmoot's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Vomit

cathgrin's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for this ARC.

This memoir is more a collection of essays exploring Levy's path before, to and through her sobriety. Her openness and vulnerability are interspersed with self-depricating humour and biting wit. While I felt some chapters were definitely stronger than others, it presents a clear voice and one which many millenials will relate to, whether they are on their own sobriety journey or not. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Eating disorder, and Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, and Toxic friendship

spaghettireads's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Vomit and Injury/Injury detail

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