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The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine
1 review
sea_tea_books's review
1.0
I started off genuinely curious what this book was about. Quite early on it felt like a brag book, and the tone didn't improve from there.
Overall, I found this book to be contradictory, with the author preaching advice while claiming to not follow her own rules of friendship. The author provided many pieces of advice on how a proper friend should behave, yet the author says she ghosted a friend in need and was confused about why so many of her friendships have crash landed or failed to take off.
I also cringed at the systematic categorizing of human beings into friendship roles based on how each person is useful or beneficial to the author. This doesn't jive with me because I believe humans are complex and dynamic, relationships are nuanced, and friendship is a working relationship that requires boundaries, kindness, and compromise by both parties.
Overall, I found this book to be contradictory, with the author preaching advice while claiming to not follow her own rules of friendship. The author provided many pieces of advice on how a proper friend should behave, yet the author says she ghosted a friend in need and was confused about why so many of her friendships have crash landed or failed to take off.
I also cringed at the systematic categorizing of human beings into friendship roles based on how each person is useful or beneficial to the author. This doesn't jive with me because I believe humans are complex and dynamic, relationships are nuanced, and friendship is a working relationship that requires boundaries, kindness, and compromise by both parties.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Abandonment
Minor: Grief and Death
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