Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

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

8 reviews

koreanlinda's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

3.75

I started this audiobook on a high note after watching Netflix series Beef. I was impressed by Ali Wong's storytelling and acting skills in the show. The audiobook is read by Ali Wong herself, and her reading is full of her characters. 

Sharing of her personal life stories with sarcasm and punchlines did not last the whole book. By the end, I was tired of her close-to-yelling and extreme self deprecation even though I listened to is on many separate sittings with plenty of breaks in-between. 

Unfortunately I could not help but judge Ali Wong's character as well. All the confession of her mistakes made her look like a very selfish person because those mistakes hurt and damage others so much. In my eyes, they were not funny. 

One more thing that bothered me was the underlying hetero-normativity and traditional ideas of women's happy life in a family with children. I don't remember the details. If you are a fan of hers, I recommend giving a listen. It might be more enjoyable to cherry-pick chapters that interest you more, otherwise, it might feel like a long story to listen to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcoholism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Xenophobia and Racism

leweylibrary's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

I obviously don't like kids, so the entire premise of the book was a bit meh for me 😬 but I did think it made for good structure for the book that was a lot more interesting and engaging than a chronological detailing of her life. I did also like the bit from her husband at the end, although that also felt a little weird? Almost like he had to defend her and their relationship? Also there was one relatively lengthy section in which there was waaaaay too much discussion about all the ways children are disgusting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, and Hate crime

Moderate: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Xenophobia, Sexism, and Vomit

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

felicia923's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Racism, Pregnancy, Xenophobia, and Vomit

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

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

Ali and I share a birthday (April 19th!) I’m always excited when I share a birthday with someone as smart and hilarious as Ms. Wong is. I loved that she chose to write this as a way to leave something behind for her daughters as well as giving the audience a small peek into her life growing up in San Francisco, CA. Her memoir was refreshingly candid, open, raw, vulnerable and humorous. I can’t wait to watch her latest Netflix special and I hope to see her perform live soon ! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing and Grief

Minor: Miscarriage and Xenophobia

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