Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

19 reviews

lucyrudd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Sexual content, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Addiction, Drug use, Death, Eating disorder, Grief, Child death, and Cursing

seasonofreads's review against another edition

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

5.0

As someone on the cusp of turning 30, this book reached deep inside me and pulled out some much needed nostalgia and epiphanies about the last decade. Dolly is funny and smart, daring and brave, full of good advice and searing insights, and honest about her flaws in a way that is inspiring. You don’t have to be a fabulous blond party girl to get where she is coming from. You only need to be a woman who is living through their 20s and 30s to feel seen by this book. I’d venture to say women of all ages would feel seen, but I’m not in my further decades yet. Dolly’s story telling is vivid and romantic and so personal that you will hear her voice in your head even after you close the book. I loved it every minute of this memoir of sorts. I will be inhaling her next book asap! I highly recommend this book to one and all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death

Minor: Mental illness, Body shaming, Cursing, Grief, and Sexual content

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Funny and endearing yet somewhat unrelatable. Having never been the party girl, Dolly’s life full of antics didn’t resonate with me. Even still, her viewpoints on love were consistently spot on. Dolly also uses a lot of English pop culture references and refers to places in England that I’m unfamiliar with, so, it was hard to determine what she was talking about in several places. The bond that she has with her girlfriends is admirable and makes me pine for those types of female friendships myself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Cursing, Sexual content, Misogyny, Infidelity, Alcohol, Death, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Bullying, Cancer, Body shaming, Drug use, Vomit, and Eating disorder

imogenlj's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I am very much the target audience, and I read this, laughed, cried and laughed again. Through hilarious and moving snippets of her life, Dolly inspires and commiserates with every woman in her twenties thinking about love and other big questions. Read with a glass of wine and box of tissues.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Drug use, and Mental illness

books_withblooms's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Alcoholism, Death, and Cancer

annakh16's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Mental illness, and Eating disorder

Minor: Terminal illness, Sexual content, Cursing, and Child death

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I laughed. I cried. I learned. I was worried with the first part of the book and the talks of eating disorders (which usually trigger me to dnf books) but, Dolly just got more interesting with each chapter. It definitely felt like either a podcast or a gossip sesh with a friend but the way it made me self reflect, cry, and fall in love with Dolly was incredibly meaningful. I normally take much longer to read nonfiction as I get bored but this took me a fraction of the time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Dysphoria, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Cursing, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Acephobia/Arophobia, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Medical content, Abandonment, Vomit, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

gabbynasty's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Cancer, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Alcoholism, Drug use, Addiction, and Eating disorder

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Classism, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Drug use, and Eating disorder

isabellaliedtke's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

4.5

when i first picked this book up, i was going through it a little (very very lonely) and reading it made me feel even lonelier because it felt like dolly was having fun while i was sitting at home doing nothing. however, as i read more and more of her story, the more i understood the points she was making. like no shade, but at first i was like this girl needs to calm down. but then i was like ohhh i get why she did that. watching her spiritual journey unfold in the span of almost 400 pages was fun and i recommend every woman 18 and older to read it. i definitely will re-read this when i'm in my 20s, and maybe i'll be able to do this in a week or so.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, and Cancer

Minor: Alcohol, Grief, Drug use, and Cursing