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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
29 reviews
dealingwithdragons's review against another edition
Graphic: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Animal death
idesofmarch's review against another edition
Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse
Moderate: Sexual content
sreddous's review
5.0
I LOVE the way Sugar writes. The balance of sweet and gentle but also firm makes so much sense to me. There are some gorgeous, highly-quotable moments here. There are some heartbreaking stories. I felt gut-punched by a lot of these stories and questions. I believe Sugar knows just when to use long, flowery sentences and short, hard-hitting ones.
I see some other reviews saying that the advice doesn't work for them because a ton of these answers/columns involve Sugar telling her own stories as comparison -- this is a fair critique, but for me personally, it really really works. My brain likes to see a "similar yet different" story that also "tells the same moral/arrives at the same conclusion", so if your brain also works similarly, I definitely recommend this. But, I can see why Sugar's "here's a story that happened to me that's kinda relevant" format might not work for everyone. Still, it worked like heck for me.
Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Drug use
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
kaleidoscopic_roses's review
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Pregnancy, Grief, and Sexual assault
jessmbark's review against another edition
4.25
That said, sometimes it felt like Strayed told a lot of her own story instead of addressing the writer's. If you like those podcasts or TikToks that discuss Reddit AITA posts, you will like this book. Many thanks to the mentor who recommended it to me.
Graphic: Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Religious bigotry, Abortion, Addiction, and Xenophobia
Minor: Terminal illness, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder
readbyroska's review
5.0
you’re feeling lost, hopeless, not good enough, deserving but unlucky, regretful, guilty, ashamed, disempowered, confused, heartbroken, lonely, isolated, alone, misunderstood, underachieving.
Read if you are a partner, wife, husband, mother, father, boyfriend, girlfriend, daughter, son, child, friend, fuck buddy, teacher, student.
Read it if you don’t have anyone in your life who can love you and know you but still tell it to your straight.
You will find something here for you, so sift through and find it.
Minor: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Dysphoria, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Death, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Child death, Classism, Car accident, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Abortion, Incest, Addiction, Cancer, Transphobia, Rape, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Drug use, and Drug abuse
bearforrest's review
4.0
Overall liked it
Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault
tiphtap's review
4.0
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Homophobia
jackierabbit's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Animal death, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Death, Grief, and Incest
Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape
I definitely missed some trigger warnings but there were so many I can’t remember them. If I had known about them, I wouldn’t have read the book. It’s so heavy. Despite that, I know that it helped me a little bit, deal with some of the things that have happened to me.beccaj11's review
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault
Moderate: Addiction and Toxic relationship