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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

12 reviews

siobhanward's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.0

Wong's humour is not really my style, but I've seen parts of her stand up that felt really human (between foul jokes of course) and it was enough to make me curious about her book. The book, a series of letters to her daughters somehow managed to be both sweet and raunchy at the same time. I really appreciated her reflections on pregnancy, they were very sweet and not the typical "oh my god I was so FAT and HATED it." No kid wants to hear that they've been a burden to their mother since before birth. Some of the book aged badly, since a great deal of it was devoted to her relationship with her daughters' father, who she split from three years after releasing the book. I hope they still have a good relationship. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Sexual content

Moderate: Miscarriage and Vomit

Minor: Eating disorder

chaotic_tumbleweed's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

3.75

I thought it was a good book. Books are a different medium than stand up and there were times where Ali struggled with the different medium. It was an enjoyable read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, and Racism

snollet's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Sexual content

Moderate: Racial slurs and Cursing

Minor: Eating disorder

heatherjchin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Excrement, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Eating disorder, Trafficking, Blood, Fatphobia, Vomit, and Racial slurs

emmehooks's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Miscarriage

Moderate: Racial slurs, Misogyny, Grief, Eating disorder, Xenophobia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual harassment, Rape, Drug use, Death, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, and Body shaming

amandacssingh's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Miscarriage

katrinarose's review against another edition

funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Excrement, Medical content, Miscarriage, Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Classism, Animal death, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Eating disorder and Adult/minor relationship

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

3.5

This was cute. It's a little sad reading after she and her husband filed for divorce, but it's a very cute idea to leave something for your kiddos.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Excrement, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Blood, Fatphobia, Infertility, and Racial slurs

Minor: Eating disorder and Vomit

Folks who like her comedy will like this book.

katielaine_w's review against another edition

funny medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Xenophobia, Vomit, Racial slurs, Racism, and Pregnancy

marieketron's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

This book may be awkward to read if you’re actually a daughter of Ali Wong, but it packs some practical life lessons and wraps them up in a lot raunchy humour sprinkled with sincere support. I liked the touch of her husband adding and reading the afterword (the voice sounds very sexy). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Miscarriage, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexism, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Cancer

Minor: Ableism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Excrement, Fatphobia, and Grief