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torinyg's review against another edition
challenging
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inspiring
reflective
sad
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medium-paced
3.5
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Graphic: Eating disorder, Grief, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Body shaming, and Death
Moderate: Alcoholism and Bullying
hecubatohim's review against another edition
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medium-paced
5.0
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Graphic: Self harm
Moderate: Mental illness, Eating disorder, Cancer, Grief, Terminal illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, and Death
Minor: Alcoholism
kharcourt's review against another edition
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5.0
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Graphic: Cancer, Self harm, and Grief
kabe927's review against another edition
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5.0
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Moderate: Grief, Terminal illness, and Infertility
Minor: Eating disorder and Toxic friendship
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3.0
B.F.F. is an intimate memoir about Christie Tate's female friendships throughout her life. With searing honesty, Tate examines how her own insecurities and flaws ended many of those friendships. With the help of therapy and a very dear friend named Meredith, Tate is able to get to the bottom of her struggles to stay connected to the women that she's loved. B.F.F. ultimately becomes an ode to Meredith and her efforts to help Tate heal herself.
This memoir is well-written and honest. Ultimately, though, it just was not for me. B.F.F. is rooted in the culture of middle-class, white Gen X women -- that's clearly the target audience. I think some of the points that Tate makes that attempt to be relatable and/or humorous fell flat for me as someone who was a teenager about twenty years after Tate had been. Additionally, this memoir was so focused on Tate's flaws and how she self-sabotaged that I was hoping for a little more evidence of how she'd developed/changed on this decades-long journey of healing and self-discovery regarding her role in her female friendships. There's surprisingly very little of that and it's not until the end of this book.
Many thanks to @avidreaderpress for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review! All thoughts and opinions are my own.
This memoir is well-written and honest. Ultimately, though, it just was not for me. B.F.F. is rooted in the culture of middle-class, white Gen X women -- that's clearly the target audience. I think some of the points that Tate makes that attempt to be relatable and/or humorous fell flat for me as someone who was a teenager about twenty years after Tate had been. Additionally, this memoir was so focused on Tate's flaws and how she self-sabotaged that I was hoping for a little more evidence of how she'd developed/changed on this decades-long journey of healing and self-discovery regarding her role in her female friendships. There's surprisingly very little of that and it's not until the end of this book.
Many thanks to @avidreaderpress for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review! All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Self harm, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Death, Grief, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship
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