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A review by redheadragereads
Higher Sobriety: My Years Without Booze by Jill Stark
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
Review in one sentence: I closed Higher Sobriety with a sense of clarity. It is a book that will stay with me for a long while.
Higher Sobriety follows on from the original release of High Sobriety ten years ago. A pioneer read for the ‘quit lit’ movement, it is an exploration of drinking, Australian culture and everything that comes with that.
I first started following Jill Stark on Instagram last year. I found her to be refreshing and I loved her vibe (I am also a sucker for a Scottish accent, but I digress).
I opened her book hoping that the same effervescent personality and voice I had come to love would shine through- and it did.
Stark’s writing reads as if you are sharing stories over a coffee (or a can of Heaps Normal). Riveting details, statistics and sharp analysis are seemingly hidden amongst funny prose and anecdotes, making it a very easy non fiction read to digest.
I found myself madly highlighting and tabbing throughout- there were revelations around aussie drinking culture that I had not ever thought about with any depth. There were thoughts around alcohol, self esteem and ‘hangxiety’ that had me asking myself a lot of deep questions.
If you are at all interested in the sober curious movement please do yourself a favour and pick this up.
Thank you to Scribe for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for my review :)
Higher Sobriety follows on from the original release of High Sobriety ten years ago. A pioneer read for the ‘quit lit’ movement, it is an exploration of drinking, Australian culture and everything that comes with that.
I first started following Jill Stark on Instagram last year. I found her to be refreshing and I loved her vibe (I am also a sucker for a Scottish accent, but I digress).
I opened her book hoping that the same effervescent personality and voice I had come to love would shine through- and it did.
Stark’s writing reads as if you are sharing stories over a coffee (or a can of Heaps Normal). Riveting details, statistics and sharp analysis are seemingly hidden amongst funny prose and anecdotes, making it a very easy non fiction read to digest.
I found myself madly highlighting and tabbing throughout- there were revelations around aussie drinking culture that I had not ever thought about with any depth. There were thoughts around alcohol, self esteem and ‘hangxiety’ that had me asking myself a lot of deep questions.
If you are at all interested in the sober curious movement please do yourself a favour and pick this up.
Thank you to Scribe for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for my review :)