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Try Dry: The Official Guide to a Month Off Booze
**Foreword by Lee Mack**
We live in an alco-centric society. It's everywhere! Good day? Cap it off with a nice drink. Bad day? Poor you, have a pint. Big occasion? Well, you've got to have a couple, haven't you? On a date? Birthday? Work social? Evening in? Night out? Bored? Awkward? Tired? You get the picture.
And yet, four million of us take a month off booze every year. Why? Because foregoing our nightly tipple, even just for a few weeks, can lead to a life
* DEEPER SLEEP * IMPROVED MOOD * FRESHER SKIN *
* MORE ENERGY * EXTRA CASH *
So whether you're a Daily Tippler, a Weekender, an Unwinder or a Both Ends of the Candle-er Try Dry - with its invaluable resources from the experts at Alcohol Change UK - is your ticket to a hangover-free month and more. Go on. Give it a try.
We live in an alco-centric society. It's everywhere! Good day? Cap it off with a nice drink. Bad day? Poor you, have a pint. Big occasion? Well, you've got to have a couple, haven't you? On a date? Birthday? Work social? Evening in? Night out? Bored? Awkward? Tired? You get the picture.
And yet, four million of us take a month off booze every year. Why? Because foregoing our nightly tipple, even just for a few weeks, can lead to a life
* DEEPER SLEEP * IMPROVED MOOD * FRESHER SKIN *
* MORE ENERGY * EXTRA CASH *
So whether you're a Daily Tippler, a Weekender, an Unwinder or a Both Ends of the Candle-er Try Dry - with its invaluable resources from the experts at Alcohol Change UK - is your ticket to a hangover-free month and more. Go on. Give it a try.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 2019
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January 2, 2020
Really enjoyed this book, the companion to the annual Dry January challenge from Alcohol Change UK, though it also serves well as a standalone book and isn't limited to January. To paraphrase the back cover, it caters to daily tipplers, weekend drinkers, the after-work unwinder, or the serious drinker - along with guidance for each.
The author is an alcohol consultant (which I interpret to mean therapist) and that comes through in the way the book is formatted. Try Dry feels like a very accessible coursebook, including anecdotes and perspectives from previous Dry January participants, and an interactive workbook where you're asked to write down some things to help you understand what you're reading, prepare you for the challenge, and as something to reflect back on during and after Dry January.
Similarly, other books on this topic such as Annie Grace's This Naked Mind and Catherine Gray's The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober reflect the backgrounds of their authors. Grace writing in her effervescent, marketing-friendly style and Gray as a thirty-something professional woman whose life has been profoundly improved. Both are exceedingly good books, and I mention them to contrast their styles.
My only criticisms of Try Dry are that the typeface is abysmal (sans serif, thin text and low contrast, making it difficult to read for long periods) and, likely because it's a combined book and workbook, it seems to simultaneously expect you to stop reading it at a certain points in the challenge and continue to read it all the way through. I expect the latter was a compromise due to space or time limitations, but if there are reprints or follow up books I hope they ask someone who reads books to select the typeface.
The author is an alcohol consultant (which I interpret to mean therapist) and that comes through in the way the book is formatted. Try Dry feels like a very accessible coursebook, including anecdotes and perspectives from previous Dry January participants, and an interactive workbook where you're asked to write down some things to help you understand what you're reading, prepare you for the challenge, and as something to reflect back on during and after Dry January.
Similarly, other books on this topic such as Annie Grace's This Naked Mind and Catherine Gray's The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober reflect the backgrounds of their authors. Grace writing in her effervescent, marketing-friendly style and Gray as a thirty-something professional woman whose life has been profoundly improved. Both are exceedingly good books, and I mention them to contrast their styles.
My only criticisms of Try Dry are that the typeface is abysmal (sans serif, thin text and low contrast, making it difficult to read for long periods) and, likely because it's a combined book and workbook, it seems to simultaneously expect you to stop reading it at a certain points in the challenge and continue to read it all the way through. I expect the latter was a compromise due to space or time limitations, but if there are reprints or follow up books I hope they ask someone who reads books to select the typeface.
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