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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

32 reviews

arthurjentges04's review against another edition

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4.0

this book is incredibly well written and the audiobook well narrated. dolly alderton knows her shit and how to articulate herself. i found this book to be incredibly relatable for the most part (not so much the turning 30/existential crisis part, because i’m 19 and barely and adult lol, but the rest). this book speaks about societal pressures, romance, eating disorders, unhealthy coping through drug and alcohol abuse, growing into adulthood and out of your childhood, the importance of platonic love(!!!), loss and grief, letting go and accepting and sooo much more. no matter your age, this book has something important to say to you and you have something valuable to learn from it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Grief, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Addiction, Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death

seasonofreads's review against another edition

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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

jeimy's review against another edition

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4.0

 

y’all. this book put me THROUGH it. 😩 

 

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 

 

📝 review: 

so here goes—i really struggled to get through the first part of this book.

the first 30% of dolly’s memoir was mostly about her relationship with alcohol and going out as much as possible, which was really hard for me to read given that it felt repetitive and unrelatable to me.

at the very least it should have started with a heavy content warning. 

 

then the next 10% or so was all about how she hated her best friend’s first serious partner, which just felt like mad hater-ade! i honestly found myself wondering how they’re still friends after all the evil eye that was thrown, lol.

 

BUT, thankfully, the latter half of this book touched me so so deeply. (and now i see the hype!) reading this alongside all about love really made me think deeply about love as a theoretical concept, and how to pour deeply into all of my relationships—not just my romantic one. shout out to all my girlfriends & sisters who i adore more than life itself. 

 

🔖 read this if you like: 

• raw, witty, funny writing 
• loving on your girlfriends 
• chapters interspersed with recipes, lists, short stories
• a good cry

 
💭 my fave quotes:
 
“There isn’t a pebble on the beach of my history that she has left unturned. She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend.”
 
“You were made so that someone could love you. Let them love you.”
 
“I thought about how we’d known each other for twenty years and how, in all that time, I’d never got bored of her. I thought of how I’d only fallen more and more in love with her the older we grew and the more experiences we shared.”
 
“Life is a wonderful, mesmerizing, magical, fun, silly thing. And humans are astounding. We all know we’re going to die, and yet we still live. We shout and curse and care when the full bin bag breaks, yet with every minute that passes we edge closer to the end. We marvel at a nectarine sunset over the M25 or the smell of a baby’s head or the efficiency of flat-pack furniture, even though we know that everyone we love will cease to exist one day. I don’t know how we do it.”
 
from the acknowledgements:

“And, finally, thank you to Farly, without whose unwavering cheering and championing I would not have written this book. You are—you always will be—my favorite love story.”
 
gah, i’m in my feels all over again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming and Death

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

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4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Death, Child death, Body shaming, and Cancer

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Grief, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

wytherwytch's review against another edition

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4.0

This book was slow to start for me. I just think I wasn't in the right mood for it but it got better as it progressed. It made me laugh, and it made it cry! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Death, Grief, Child death, Cancer, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

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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

izzy_v's review against another edition

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3.75

The Bridget Jones diary style of the majority of the book isn’t really for me, but I enjoyed the last chapters of reflection in particular. I think this book would be most relevant for a woman in their late 20s or 30s to read, so I might read it again in a few years. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Cancer

Minor: Drug use and Death

abicaro17's review against another edition

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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

radfordmanor's review against another edition

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4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Gaslighting, Cancer, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, and Body shaming