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Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton
49 reviews
cutepatzie's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Dysphoria, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Terminal illness, and Cancer
blckbird's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Alcohol and Eating disorder
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Cancer, Drug use, and Terminal illness
luananki's review against another edition
3.25
the first third of the book felt very slow and i found the drug and alcohol abuse in that part very frustrating but i enjoyed reading about her twenties a lot, which might be due to the fact that i’m in my twenties
not sure who i would recommend this to
Graphic: Cancer, Alcohol, Death, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Body shaming, and Grief
Minor: Misogyny and Medical content
paulawind's review against another edition
4.0
What I love most about this book is that it treats love as it should be treated - in all its variety. She talks about family, sexual and romantic parters, but most importantly - friends who are your most important support network in those years. Reading the story of love between those girls and how they constantly had each other’s back had me bawling my eyes out.
Seeing Dolly’s character development was extremely satisfying - going from insecure girl using boys as a self-validation system, to a self-confident woman who bloomed before our eyes. I know the author is older than me but I felt like a proud parent by the end.
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Death and Child death
tenderrebellions's review against another edition
2.5
- very much was a love letter to her best friend - I appreciated that this book didn't center romantic love
- at times felt like the alcohol and hook ups were a bit glorified. It was described as self-destructive inone sentence - and then like a great adventure and loads of fun in the following paragraph.
- While reading I got all the details about the spiral into anxiety and a dark mental place. But the journey into a healthy life didn't receive as much attention in the story. I was left feeling like the dark times were the best ones, they were the adventure - everything that follows just a footnote. As someone who sometimes struggles with not glorifying their own turbulent past this wasn't a great read.
- the book does a beautiful job at capturing the "is this all there is"-feelings when nearing your 30s. And the feelings of jealousy / being left behind by all your couple friends and the loneliness that can sometimes come with being single.
Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, Eating disorder, Cancer, Alcohol, Death, Mental illness, and Sexual content
hannahbailey's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Child death, Cancer, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
babsi_222's review against another edition
5.0
I absolutely adore this book. this is really good if you want like a “big sister advise book”!! I don’t agree with everything or every “tip” she gives but that’s okay. we can have different views and opinions about stuff. I think this book is very well written and it’s not too complicated to understand.
I did not remember many of the side characters because they aren’t really that important in the book as they mostly appear for a short time. The book features a lot of different people and it can be hard to remember all of them but you really don’t have to. if you want you can make a small character sheet but I think that it’s only important to know the main characters or the characters that often appear in the book.
this book is about the author, Dolly Alderton‘s life and I absolutely love the way the book is created with the chapters and the smaller lists/ recipes in between. They create an atmosphere where it’s comfortable,easy and fast for me to read.
I love it! I would recommend it to everybody but what I would say is: the last few chapters are very angsty because she just has her 30th birthday so she’s kind of freaking out and talking about life moving fast so if that’s something you’re also scared of and don’t want to be reminded of it, just keep in mind that the last two chapters are going to be about that. The chapters end with a positive message so it’s okay :))
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Grief, and Addiction
Moderate: Death, Cancer, Drug use, and Mental illness
afion's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Mental illness, Fatphobia, and Body shaming
Moderate: Terminal illness, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Cancer
Minor: Homophobia and Transphobia
jessicohen15's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Dementia, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship
poisonivy's review against another edition
4.25
Minor: Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Terminal illness