Unwasted
My Lush Sobriety

It would be almost impossible to tell her story of the first year without alcohol without sharing what alcohol meant in her life, and Scoblic manages to weave the two together beautifully in this moving, sometimes funny, sometimes sobering (pun intended) memoir. She writes about how she relied on al......more

What started as an interesting relatively linear story of sobriety devolved into a fair amount of vaguely coherent rambling. It tried to come back together at the end but by then I didn't really care.......more

I am always curious about what it's like being inside another person's head, and Sacha does a first-class job of showing you what it feels like to be inside the head of a bona fide young adult alcoholic. Although she sometimes goes off on thinking-tangents (Sacha is a very smart girl) that require y......more

Unwasted is an incredible, entertaining, and illuminating book that simply made me 'happy' to have read it. It reads like a witty conversation, with amazing perceptions, and hidden truths revealed about the freshly sober thoughts of a great and fun writer. As a recovering individual, I was constantly......more

I have read a lot of books on addiction/alcoholism as I am a recovering alcoholic myself. Some of them I like more than others and this one is close to the top of my list. I could relate to SO much of this book - in how she felt while still drinking, her behaviors related to her alcoholism, as well......more