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nancyboy's review against another edition
3.0
"To go to a bookstore and buy ten books of poetry and read them each five times. Why? Because the truth is inside."
maybe the best advice someone can ever give you.
this is not normally the type of nonfiction i tend to read and i'm surprised i liked it. even if you dont like advice at times, you can tell it comes from such a place of wisdom and reflection on her own experiences and traumas. tho i must say as an acearo lesbian, i care very little about the relationship problems of heterosexuals who i'll never know. i suppose im not exactly the target audience for this book.
maybe the best advice someone can ever give you.
this is not normally the type of nonfiction i tend to read and i'm surprised i liked it. even if you dont like advice at times, you can tell it comes from such a place of wisdom and reflection on her own experiences and traumas. tho i must say as an acearo lesbian, i care very little about the relationship problems of heterosexuals who i'll never know. i suppose im not exactly the target audience for this book.
nancyboy56's review against another edition
3.0
"To go to a bookstore and buy ten books of poetry and read them each five times. Why? Because the truth is inside."
maybe the best advice someone can ever give you.
this is not normally the type of nonfiction i tend to read and i'm surprised i liked it. even if you dont like advice at times, you can tell it comes from such a place of wisdom and reflection on her own experiences and traumas. tho i must say as an acearo lesbian, i care very little about the relationship problems of heterosexuals who i'll never know. i suppose im not exactly the target audience for this book.
maybe the best advice someone can ever give you.
this is not normally the type of nonfiction i tend to read and i'm surprised i liked it. even if you dont like advice at times, you can tell it comes from such a place of wisdom and reflection on her own experiences and traumas. tho i must say as an acearo lesbian, i care very little about the relationship problems of heterosexuals who i'll never know. i suppose im not exactly the target audience for this book.
jencunn2024's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed Cheryl Strayed’s writing here so much! This is a collection of her advice columns written under the “Sugar” persona. While Sugar tells it straight but with great love and empathy, the shining bits are the entwined personal stories from Cheryl which bring both literal and allegorical significance to every response. I do think this book offers more if read intermittently taking in each letter and response for what it offers and shares. If I had known this before starting for a Book Club adventure, I would have read this more slowly and spread out over a few months. I think just about everyone can find something relatable here. Her coverage of grief and love is especially inspiring.
zilef's review against another edition
4.0
This was the best gift I had right after I had my baby. I had a real hard time getting back to reading (I mean anything other than baby/ parenting books). This was it! Real stories, real questions and quite damn good advice. Enjoyed it!
kendragaylelee's review against another edition
5.0
If I tell you this book is my bible (and I am telling you that, as vulnerable as it feels), I need you to know that I will read Cheryl Strayed's words again and again like a sacred text. I read Tiny Beautiful Things every day for a few months. One letter a day. To savor it. To soak it in. To spend time aching and expanding with each tiny bit of truth unveiled. The next time I read it, I know it will mean something else to me, each of these pieces of wisdom hit different every time. But it will always be a holy experience for me. And there's not one bit of hyperbole in that statement. Trust & believe.
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ploopl's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
nike_1212's review against another edition
5.0
Take a guess. Of course it’s obvious I cried more than once, and I think rightly so because some of those paragraphs hit home so close it’s scary. I was crying in cafes unexpectedly, over dinner, and once I was sat in a bus and suddenly without my control I started sobbing- the topic of the column: the loss of Sugars mom in her early 20s.
This book is so so so caring and thoughtful and loving and gives you a real tough love soft love tough love sandwich. I think nearly every issue that plagues me and some of my close friends- which are broadly ranging- has come up, and made me think like 1000 times about buying it for people around me. This book is radically empathic, and we should be too.
5/5.
This book is so so so caring and thoughtful and loving and gives you a real tough love soft love tough love sandwich. I think nearly every issue that plagues me and some of my close friends- which are broadly ranging- has come up, and made me think like 1000 times about buying it for people around me. This book is radically empathic, and we should be too.
5/5.
klingman19's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
happylilkt's review against another edition
I think Strayed is a gifted writer and that her perspective in these is so wise, honest, and generous, but her writing is so full of profanity... and I have so many other things on my list to read... overall I would consider picking this up again but I've just been sick of foul language lately (in the best of times I merely tolerate it) so I'm moving on.
chelsayoder's review against another edition
5.0
Beautiful. Incredible. The love that flows through this book is as heartbreaking as it is inspiring.