Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Lena Dunham

4 reviews

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Lena Dunham is far from perfect, and despite what people say, she is a good comedy writer and GIRLS is actually funny 3👧

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Misogyny, Fatphobia, Abortion, Acephobia/Arophobia, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Blood, Outing, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Medical content, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Biphobia, Infertility, Eating disorder, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Rape

bexi's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Medical content, Rape, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Excrement, Sexual content, Vomit, and Mental illness

Minor: Ableism

jbabbm's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

Funny as Lena Dunham can be, but not hilarious enough for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Eating disorder

lefrough's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.25

Skipped the essays i found personally triggering, but overall really enjoyed this book. For all her flaws, Lena Dunham is a good writer.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

One or two essays go in depth about food issues and shows detailed food diaries with calorie counts.