A review by tildahlia
High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark

3.0

I've been meaning to read this book for a while after quite a few friends found it had a transformational change to their perspective on drinking. I thought - what better time to read than during my first Febfast? While I can't say it was too transformational from my perspective (if you have a passing interest in alcohol policy, a lot of it generally won't be a shock to you) but she did have some interesting observations about the weird way other people respond to decisions to not drink (something I have both experienced and been guilty of). Also some of the research around how carcinogenic alcohol is was pretty eye-opening. Stark has a good, candid style but it felt like a book that could have been an essay.