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Sve što znam o ljubavi by Dolly Alderton

54 reviews

evasophias's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

a solid read <3 felt like having a convo w bestie but that’s bc she annotated it. LOVE U IZZY!!! anyway very cute and funny and spoke fax. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

lara_r's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Pregnancy

ieotter13's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

This book hit almost every emotion: sad, funny, hopeful, encouraging - but most of all touched what love actually means: not just the hopeless romantics you see in film, the one night stands of your teenage/early twenties, or long term relationships, but  true love that comes in friendships and meeting new people and going to new places and everything in between. the intermittent recipes and emails took some getting used to and I found it a little slow towards the middle, but by the end I couldn’t put it down. While the stories in here definitely hit home as a teenager, I can see this book being even more poignant the older I get. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Medical trauma

hypocrisis's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing

2.0

I didn't hate it. some of the topics touched on were relatable and important to me but they were explored on such a surface level that it didn't bring me any particular enjoyment or insight. the writing style was too forced and stacked with bad metaphors. this is a book written from the worst of white feminist perspectives, privileged, naive and boring while aiming to offer somewhat political takes lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug use, Terminal illness, and Grief

grizzlysnack's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Eating disorder, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Dysphoria

cutepatzie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

3.75

It's a good book but many elements maybe will not fit the life of people. It's still a good book, it's very reflective about life. Its have good advice but as I mention not everything is for everyone. But still is a good book to read at least once.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

blckbird's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

luananki's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.25

i really really wanted to love this book and there were definitely parts i loved and enjoyed but it also contained a lot of aspects and decisions i didn’t understand

the first third of the book felt very slow and i found the drug and alcohol abuse in that part very frustrating but i enjoyed reading about her twenties a lot, which might be due to the fact that i’m in my twenties

not sure who i would recommend this to

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Misogyny and Medical content

paulawind's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

I’m not a fan of biographies/memoirs etc but this one somehow captivated me. It could have been for me also being a lost sheep in her mid 20s, having no idea what to do with my life. Or it could have been the heartfelt journey of a teenager towards her fully fledged adulthood. Or both.

What I love most about this book is that it treats love as it should be treated - in all its variety. She talks about family, sexual and romantic parters, but most importantly - friends who are your most important support network in those years. Reading the story of love between those girls and how they constantly had each other’s back had me bawling my eyes out. 

Seeing Dolly’s character development was extremely satisfying - going from insecure girl using boys as a self-validation system, to a self-confident woman who bloomed before our eyes. I know the author is older than me but I felt like a proud parent by the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Child death and Death

tenderrebellions's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

2.5

• very much was a love letter to her best friend - I appreciated that this book didn't center romantic love
• at times felt like the alcohol and hook ups were a bit glorified. It was described as self-destructive inone sentence - and then like a great adventure and loads of fun in the following paragraph.
• While reading I got all the details about the spiral into anxiety and a dark mental place. But the journey into a healthy life didn't receive as much attention in the story. I was left feeling like the dark times were the best ones, they were the adventure - everything that follows just a footnote. As someone who sometimes struggles with not glorifying their own turbulent past this wasn't a great read.
• the book does a beautiful job at capturing the "is this all there is"-feelings when nearing your 30s. And the feelings of jealousy / being left behind by all your couple friends and the loneliness that can sometimes come with being single.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Alcohol