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Life on a 20-Degree Tilt: Finding Myself at Sea and on Land (Living Life Sideways Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Michelle Segrest (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 71 ratings

She was geared up for love and adventure. But she was about to sail into a maelstrom of trouble…

Michelle Segrest dreamed of checking one giant challenge off her bucket list. Boarding a 43-foot sailboat to rekindle her relationship of six years, she set out on the eight-month voyage from North Germany to Alabama filled with hope. But suffering extreme seasickness and heavy gales in the Baltic proved the least of her problems when she faced abusive gaslighting from her partner.

Unable to keep food down long enough to help when maintenance issues struck, Michelle’s only comfort came from her two devoted beagles. But though she was desperate to find the positive side of her secretive lover, the confined space and the harsh crossing of the notorious Bay of Biscay pushed the journalist to her breaking point.

In this powerful account of a woman’s attempt to overcome enormous obstacles, Segrest charts an epic journey combining an individual’s survival story with a fascinating sailing journal. And by sharing her deepest anxieties and raw experience of life on deck, you’ll witness how one novice sailor’s increasing nightmare turns into a soul-searching quest for meaning.

Life on a 20-Degree Tilt is the tumultuous first book in the Living Life Sideways travel memoir series. If you like intensely personal narratives, ocean-going challenges, and brutally honest self-assessments, then you’ll love Michelle Segrest’s emotional storm.

Buy Life on a 20-Degree Tilt to navigate treacherous waters today!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09MXNCSS5
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Navigate Content, Inc. (December 21, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 21, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 8.6 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B09NRZM622
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 71 ratings

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Michelle Segrest

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Michelle Segrest loves to tell a great story!

A graduate of Auburn University, Michelle has spent more than three decades reporting about everything from sports to courts, lifestyles to business, politics to pastries, and technical to travel. She works from her home office on Alabama's Gulf Coast and has two children (Shelby and Bo) and two beagles (Cap’n Jack and Scout).

In addition to creating content for her industry clients (www.navigatecontent.com/blog), Michelle also maintains two critically-acclaimed travel blogs. She chronicles her adventures sailing the world (www.navigatecontent.com/sailing-adventure-blog) and writes about her worldwide travel adventures (www.navigatecontent.com/travel-blog).

In her spare time, she loves tennis, sailing, geocaching, traveling off the beaten path, true-crime podcasts, and enjoys books and movies from all genres. She hates mayonnaise and animals dressed in people clothes.

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  • David M
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2022
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    First, Michelle is an excellent writer. Her descriptions over the course of the three books that cover her time sailing from Germany, across the Baltic, the North Sea, down the west coast of Europe, to the Canaries, Cape Verde, and the crossing to South America. I've spent time crossing oceans and I can tell you, the experience can be arduous. Sleep deprivation, sea sickness, and occasional terror is all part of it if you sail long enough. The descriptions of her voyage capture this, to be sure. It also captures the rewards that come with it.

    But, these books are about so much more. Michelle ends up trapped with a psychologically and emotionally abusive, narcissistic, and controlling person who makes the voyage an unbearably torturous year. When I finished this first book, I was so disturbed by this relationship that I had to convince myself to read books 2 and 3. But, even though the journey was difficult, it was incredibly beneficial. These three books are a close examination of the worst end of the spectrum of human interactions and forces us to critically examine how we interact with other people. You will end up despising "the skipper" and will search out the characteristics of your own interactions with others for the sole reason that you won't be able to abide the thought that any of your interactions in any way reflect the behaviors of this horrible man.

    After reading this first book, if you are like me, you will be a little angry that Michelle doesn't abandon this journey and leave this guy behind. In the third book, she does an excellent job of explaining why, from inside a relationship, it's not nearly as easy to make that leap as it would seem when looking on from a third party perspective.

    Great books. I'm so glad you escaped, Michelle.
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  • Liesbet
    4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping tales, experiences, and relationship
    Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2022
    Life on a 20-degree Tilt is a book that keeps you turning the pages, curious to find out what will happen next to the bright-orange boat and its crew. The author did a good job finishing each chapter with a bit of tension and foreshadowing and her tales and sailing experiences are gripping. Especially her personal relationship struggles kept me engaged.

    The descriptions about the sailing life and her seasickness, emotions, and feelings are accurate and compelling. I could often relate, but this book made me realize I’d never want to sail in Northern Europe, or on a monohull, after eight years of fulltime cruising on a catamaran in the tropics. I would like to suggest the author tries this out, next time, but then she’ll have to rename her book series. :)

    While I generally enjoyed reading this book, diary-style writing is not my preferred style to read in memoirs. For that reason and some editing inconsistencies I’m giving the book four instead of five stars.
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  • Fayna Workman
    5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! First time I have been hooked on a series!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2023
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    Oh My! I had been wanting to purchase this series for a while simply because Michelle and I knew of each other in high school and I just wanted to read her work. I regret not purchasing before now. I read the first book and was immediately hooked.

    The way Michelle wrote, I felt like I was there with her on her adventure in both the ups and the downs, physically, emotionally and mentally. I smiled as I read, got angry and misty eyed at times. The encounters and the challenges she faced made me keep reading page after page until I realized I had not moved for hours. At times I would look up the location of the story to see exactly where she was in her journey and her descriptions matched the pictures precisely. I was sad when I finished the first book but was so glad that I had received all three books at once and could go on the next one. I paced myself with the first book but the second one ... there was no pacing.. I finished in 24 hours! Glad the third is within reach!!

    I have only recently been able to begin reading for me, for fun again and I didn't realize just how much I had missed it and enjoy it. You would think being a teacher, I would read. I did, but not just for me. Thank you Michelle for helping me to find the passion for reading again and for sharing your adventure!
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  • Marie
    3.0 out of 5 stars No Conclusive Ending
    Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2023
    I didn't realize that as the first in a series, this book does not offer a conclusive ending. The reader is encouraged to read what comes next--- in the next book, and the one after that. I was expecting that the first book would offer a stand-alone story. The entire book flows quickly and evenly, describing in detail the author's challenges with sailing while managing motion sickness, yet I wondered why she never named "the skipper". She enjoyed more satisfying relationships with her dogs. She does offer confirmation of my suspicions about the relationship, but not until I'd read 80% of the book. No conclusion followed, so I assume she continued the relationship, at least for the next two books. I enjoyed reading this, even all the descriptions of what must be done to prepare a sailboat and keep it afloat. I know nothing of sailing culture, but I was not bothered by the extensive mention of sailing vocabulary that went over my head; the gist of her account was satisfying, authoritative, and reassuring to me, who has never once felt the urge to board any boat other than a pontoon, and certainly feels no such urge now! In spite of being left hanging, as a reader, I read this book nearly nonstop. I was looking forward to reading about the voyage to Alabama, and about how the relationship unfolded, but maybe they will make a feature film of it. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this book immensely; it portrayed a world I will not ever know, and isn't that one of the draws of reading memoirs?
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  • Momof3ms
    5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing
    Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2022
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    This book got me up and checking world maps to find locations. The book isn’t as much about sailing as one might think but more about the journey of sailing. Michelle describes her experiences in a honest and creative way. By the end of this first book, a 3 book series I was glad I had all three so I can continue reading. This book is captivating. Michelle is a brave, strong Sailor.
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