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Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton

146 reviews

lacanadienneinreads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

I didn't anticipate liking this. I don't tent towards memoirs, don't tend towards books about love, or even nonfiction in general. I admit I was cynical about this book. 

But Dolly's style, reflective, emotionally vulnerable but humorous, nostalgic and dreamy... It felt very intimate and familiar. Even situations outside my lived experience spoke to my understanding. And those that were reflective of my own life felt frighteningly accurate. 

I'd recommend it to any woman, but especially those in their mid to late twenties, on that knifes edge between the girl you were and the woman you'll be. 

Fair warning, I laughed, I cried, and I was triggered by some of the content. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Eating disorder, Cancer, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Death

emilye's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Drug use

dana_21857's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

2.5

Entertaining, but no red string

No real concept

All over the place

Random skips ahead and back in time

Im at the stage with love she is at 30 now, so it's wildy unrelatable to me, but that's just personal

I wanted to love this book, that's why I didn't dnf but it did disappoint a little bit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cancer and Drug use

Minor: Eating disorder and Panic attacks/disorders

catching5tars's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

orchidd's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

Favorite chapter: “Nothing Will Change” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Addiction

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual content

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

kafkatattoo's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Cancer, Sexual content, Mental illness, Death, and Eating disorder

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

francescabooks's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Addiction