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Alcohol was the gasoline of all adventure for Sarah Hepola She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty first century woman But there was a price She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should have been Mornings became detective work on her own life What did I say last night How did I meet that guy She apologized for things she couldn t remember doing, as though she were cleaning up after an evil twin Publicly, she covered her shame with self deprecating jokes, and her career flourished, but as the blackouts accumulated, she could no longer avoid a sinking truth The fuel she thought she needed was draining her spirit instead.A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh out loud humor, Blackout is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure the sober life she never wanted Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed came only from a bottle Her tale will resonate with anyone who has been forced to reinvent or struggled in the face of necessary change It s about giving up the thing you cherish most but getting yourself back in return. New Download [ Blackout ] by [ Sarah Hepola ] – kino-fada.fr this memoir was pushed on me by someone who kept stressing how honest and funny and brave it was, and i read it as a favor to her, but i was unprepared for just how much it would suck me in, make me laugh, and completely charm me.i don t read a lot of memoirs i have enough trouble keeping up with the crap my own life throws at me, and it doesn t give me comfort or make me feel empowered to read about other people overcoming their problems and i don t have any personal experience with alcohol a this memoir was pushed on me by someone who kept stressing how honest and funny and brave it was, and i read it as a favor to her, but i was unprepared for just how much it would suck me in, make me laugh, and completely charm me.i don t read a lot of memoirs i have enough trouble keeping up with the crap my own life throws at me, and it doesn t give me comfort or make me feel empowered to read about other people overcoming their problems and i don t have any personal experience with alcohol addiction, so i didn t think there would be anything in this book that would make me nod or squirm in recognition but ...I remember nothing is the title of a funny book by Nora Ephron and an old geezer s favorite but sort of unfunny joke It also could have been the title of this book, which is the embarrassed, heartfelt confession and analysis of a drunk who has blackouts.Blackouts are mean Hepola describes how blackouts stole her time, ruined friendships, put her in danger, and did not let their brain form memories Poof, blackouts made her disappear from herself for hours The world saw her, but she couldn I remember nothing is the title of a funny book by Nora Ephron and an old geezer s favorite but sort of unfunny joke It also could have been the title of this book, which is the embarrassed, heartfelt confession and analysis of a drunk who has blackouts.Blackouts are mean Hepola describes how blackouts stole her time, ruined friendships, put her in danger, and did not let their brain form memories Poof, ...Behold the risk factors for blacking out a genetic predisposition to holding your liquor, drinking fast and skipping meals Oh, andbeing female Sarah Hepola, a 40 something journalist writer is astoundingly clear and real recounting her spiral to the bottom and back up again So glad she found her way back, such a hard road this would have been Whilst memoirs strike many different chords to any given reader, I need to say this story is amazingly real and just as equally scary but a Behold the risk factors for blacking out a genetic predisposition to holding your liquor, drinking fast and skipping meals Oh, andbeing female Sarah Hepola, a 40 something journalist writer is astoundingly clear and real recounting her spiral to the bottom and back up again So glad she found her way ...My addiction to addiction memoirs continues, and Blackout was the perfect fix Sarah Hepola can WRITE I had so many good passages marked in this book that I used up a pile of Post Its.Sarah s drug of choice was alcohol She sipped her first beer at age 6, she started stealing beer at 7, and she first got blackout drunk when she was 11 She went to a summer party at a friend s lake house, drank a lot of beer and some liqu...This was absolutely an eloquently written, satirical reflection of Hepola s memoir from alcoholism to sobriety From waking in strange hotel rooms with alarming states of vanished time not knowing what happened, where and with whom Liquor seductively lured her in, possessed her, made her feel loveable and brilliant It took herthan once to get clean and she compares getting sober to a nasty breakup when you hate and despise the other pers...Blackout, by Sarah Hepola, a girl who was always up for a party 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 drink1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 drink1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 drinkThrow em back, till I lose countI m gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelierSia, Chandelier While this is an important memoir by a Party Girl blackout alcoholic, I found it evensignificant for Ms Hepola s brilliant and sassy style in profoundly and provocatively addressing the prevalent problem of young women and alcohol on university campuses Blackout, by Sarah Hepola, a girl who was always up for a party 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 drink1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 drink1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 drinkThrow em back, till I lose countI m gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelierSia, Chandelier While this is an important memoir by a Party Girl blackout a...A special thanks to NetGalley for this one Loved it Sarah Hepola s memoir captivated me right from the start Yes, it s a story of alcoholism and her eventual recovery, but WOW was the writing ever good Her genuine honesty shined throughout, and her humor was priceless She starts out telling us of an especially fun night in Paris, the only problem is waking up the next morning in a stranger s bed, with no memory of how she got there I was unclear if this was her ...This was my first book memoir on addiction so I have nothing to compare it to, but I should mention that it rescued me from a serious reading rut The author gives an intimate account of her life journey with alcoholism and had me so emotionally invested I was rooting for her recovery She outlines the stages of her life beginning with the very first innocent sip of beer with her dad at a very young age that wo... Note I m uncharacteristically nervous about posting this review, because I know a lot of people really liked this book, and I didn t Please, if you loved this book so much that you can t bear to hear any criticism of it, do us both a favor and stop reading now.I marked several pages in Blackout and originally planned to write a longish review where I backed up all of my opinions with passages from the text, but frankly this memoir is not worth that ki...Well written and engrossing memoir by Sarah Hepola, who starting stealing sips of beer from the refrigerator at age seven and blossomed into a full fledged alcoholic who regularly suffered blackouts, once wakening in a strange man s hote...

Blackout
  • English
  • 02 December 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 230 pages
  • 1455554596
  • Sarah Hepola
  • Blackout