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Is this book fiction or a memoir?

It's a memoir (kind of). Names and a few details have been changed; the bad decisions are very real.

Is the book suitable for younger readers?

No. Adult language, mature themes, and questionable life choices throughout.

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Signed paperbacks ship from the author on September 1, 2026. Kindle editions are delivered on release day.

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A dark-comedy memoir about drinking, damage control, and making it to Monday.

BINGE DRINKER
A MEMOIR (KIND OF)

Binge Drinker: A Memoir (Kind Of) is an unfiltered, painfully funny account of blackout weekends, brutal mornings, family life, bad decisions, and the strange talent required to remain functional through all of it.

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Adult language, mature themes, questionable decisions.

Binge Drinker: A Memoir (Kind Of) by Ryan Stewart — paperback cover.

· Darkly funny ·
· Brutally honest ·
· Probably a bad influence ·

About the book

Four-day hangovers. Three jobs. Two kids. One terrible idea after another.

Binge Drinker is not a recovery memoir. It's not a cautionary tale. It's a field report from inside the messy, hilarious, terrifying space where adult responsibility and weekend self-destruction try to share a calendar.

Ryan Stewart writes about the 2:30am decisions, the 6:30am consequences, the Monday-morning theater, and the family life that keeps showing up no matter what kind of shape he's in.

Local to Barrie, Ontario. Signed copies available for pickup or free drop-off in the Barrie area — pick "Local pickup" at checkout.

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An excerpt

Read Monday Morning

Chapter One

It's 2:30 in the morning.

I can't remember who won the 6:30 football game from yesterday.

I run down to the basement and grab three Gatorades.

One for me…

And then two more for me.

I chug one in a single sip and watch some bullshit on YouTube because I'm wide awake.

I doze off.

I wake up again at 4:30. Another Gatorade and some bullshit YouTube.

What has our world come to.

Reaction Videos? What the fuck.

Idiots watching idiots watch some idiot do something stupid.

Put a gun in my mouth.

I delete YouTube and all my other social media and self loathe for a moment.

There has to be something more productive to do at 4:30 in the morning.

I know.

I'll give it a yank.

I pass out again.

It's 8:00 Monday morning.

I wake up on a sheet-less mattress on a pillow-case-less pillow.

I guess I never flipped the bed sheets into the dryer.

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Meet the author

Meet Ryan Stewart

Ryan is a working husband and father writing honestly and humorously about binge drinking, responsibility, denial, hangovers, and the strange space between having your life together and repeatedly trying to destroy your weekend.

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