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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Mental health + addiction + social commentary = GIVE IT TO ME RIGHT MEOW.
Sarah Levy writes candidly about her blackout drinking days, the chaos that ensued, and what drove her toward sobriety. But Drinking Games is more than just a memoir—it’s also a social commentary about the ubiquity of drinking and our obsession with living the perfect life for Instagram.
The part where she talks about archiving posts if they don’t get enough likes immediately…I FELT THAT IN MY BONES.
If you’re feeling a lil ✨sober curious✨, you need this book on your radar. Comes out in January!
Sarah Levy writes candidly about her blackout drinking days, the chaos that ensued, and what drove her toward sobriety. But Drinking Games is more than just a memoir—it’s also a social commentary about the ubiquity of drinking and our obsession with living the perfect life for Instagram.
The part where she talks about archiving posts if they don’t get enough likes immediately…I FELT THAT IN MY BONES.
If you’re feeling a lil ✨sober curious✨, you need this book on your radar. Comes out in January!
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This was good but way too long. Also drove me nuts how out of order her story was!
My favorite part if this memoir was Levy’s insights into opinions and points of view. I like what she was saying about that is way makes you individual.
I thought that the story line could be a but confusing because it was not chronological, and I only learned background information about her heritage until well into the book.
I thought that the story line could be a but confusing because it was not chronological, and I only learned background information about her heritage until well into the book.
Perhaps not quite the thought-provoking social critique I was expecting, but I liked some of the individual stories she told. The format threw me for a loop initially, but I ended up liking how she started each chapter with her pre-sober life and then worked her way to the present. It felt extremely personal, and it added some variety to the narrative once she painted the picture of why she went sober.
Is she a privileged white woman whose struggles are not THAT “bad”? Yes, but I found her to be very relatable. While my own drinking experiences are not nearly as severe as the author’s, I found myself imagining what my life would look like sober.
Is she a privileged white woman whose struggles are not THAT “bad”? Yes, but I found her to be very relatable. While my own drinking experiences are not nearly as severe as the author’s, I found myself imagining what my life would look like sober.
Drinking Games by Sarah Levy is a memoir about the author's alcohol addiction and the impact it had on her life before and after becoming sober. The story is also in a lot of ways a coming of age memoir about finding your way in life, dealing with anxiety and other mental health challenges, and learning how to navigate adult relationships. I love Sarah's honesty and ability to share even her most difficult or embarrassing moments in a way that feels so real and raw. Her writing is interesting and funny where appropriate, but also doesn't over simplify the challenges she faced. I think that more than just a memoir about her own self-healing, Drinking Games is an opportunity to help others who are struggling with addiction and determining when someone's alcohol abuse requires intervention.
I would highly recommend this book. Anyone who enjoys memoirs about mental health and addiction will definitely appreciate this book. Also, if you are a millennial, particularly a female, if you are Jewish, have a French background, or have had family members struggle with cancer or other similar illnesses, I think that it will be easy for you to connect with the author as her ability to relate with her reader is phenomenal. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher, St Martins Press, for the opportunity to read this great book!
I would highly recommend this book. Anyone who enjoys memoirs about mental health and addiction will definitely appreciate this book. Also, if you are a millennial, particularly a female, if you are Jewish, have a French background, or have had family members struggle with cancer or other similar illnesses, I think that it will be easy for you to connect with the author as her ability to relate with her reader is phenomenal. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher, St Martins Press, for the opportunity to read this great book!
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As a rule of thumb, I always give memoirs 5 stars. This is someone’s truth laid bare to all so who am I to judge their experience? Additionally, I am not a drinker. I’ve never struggle with my alcohol consumption (mostly because I’m allergic so … ). For me “Drinking Games” was an opportunity for me to listen to someone share their experience with alcoholism and how they overcame their addiction.
Levy shares the wild up and downs of her drinking. How socially it wasn’t such much of an issue — because our society sees drinking daily as nothing to be concerned with — but personally she was blackout messy, lacking not only self-control, but impulse control. She recounts moments that could have ended much worse than they did, including the times she would wake up in the hospital with no memory of what happened the evening before. Sarah was a single female in NYC and left me shocked by how often she put herself in some shady situations — that’s the mom in me being worried for someone else.
You don’t have to be on the road to recovery or in the depts of your addiction to connect to this story. I think anyone who has struggled with a balanced life can see themselves in this book. Our society is extreme in many ways, we like to indulge, and this book touches on why we are like that and how we can overcome the constant need for more.
Levy shares the wild up and downs of her drinking. How socially it wasn’t such much of an issue — because our society sees drinking daily as nothing to be concerned with — but personally she was blackout messy, lacking not only self-control, but impulse control. She recounts moments that could have ended much worse than they did, including the times she would wake up in the hospital with no memory of what happened the evening before. Sarah was a single female in NYC and left me shocked by how often she put herself in some shady situations — that’s the mom in me being worried for someone else.
You don’t have to be on the road to recovery or in the depts of your addiction to connect to this story. I think anyone who has struggled with a balanced life can see themselves in this book. Our society is extreme in many ways, we like to indulge, and this book touches on why we are like that and how we can overcome the constant need for more.
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced