MAKE MINE A VIRGIN: How I Quit Drinking by Tenley Summer

By Tenley Summer

Who stops ingesting on New Year’s Eve?! the main sanctioned excuse - potentially ever - for essential drunkenness?

Well, Tenley summer season for one.

She had already stopped too time and again to count number. preventing wasn’t the matter. Staying stopped was once. And but, in 2010, she ultimately succeeds.

Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Tenley stories a life-changing rabbit second that also is white (just regarding mild rather than critters). Catapulted into an Alice-style freefall, she is desirous to comprehend what simply occurred. So she embarks on a quest choked with colourful characters, snarky observation and wtf conversations. Her nerdy love of study and insatiable interest ultimately lead her to bump into a good body-mind-spirit resolution that addresses:

the actual problems with a physique in withdrawal from the booze it’s addicted to;

how to mobilize the brain and its notable powers;

the (dreaded) religious part of things.

More than simply the “nuts and bolts” of the way to surrender consuming, Make Mine a Virgin is a cheerful, cheeky and self-deprecating occasion of ways one under the influence of alcohol ultimately discovered the best way to remain stopped - for 30, 60, ninety days and beyond...and loved (almost) each minute of it.

TENLEY SUMMER is an eccentric, partly purple-haired pirate at the moment dependent in Portland, Oregon. She likes to trip, caffeinate, eat strong books - and, in fact, remain sober.

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MAKE MINE A VIRGIN: How I Quit Drinking

Who stops ingesting on New Year’s Eve? ! the main sanctioned excuse - almost certainly ever - for necessary drunkenness? good, Tenley summer time for one. She had already stopped too repeatedly to count number. preventing wasn’t the matter. Staying stopped was once. And but, in 2010, she eventually succeeds. Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Tenley studies a life-changing rabbit second that also is white (just related to mild rather than critters).

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