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I didn’t realise this was a memoir when I bought it. Nevertheless, I was very invested in her story, as it seemed to align with that of so many people I know. Felt like making a new friend who is telling me all her crazy stories from her 20s. Wouldn’t really say it tackles the goal of telling us about love -

unless you mean strictly friendly love

. An enjoyable read, but I expected more depth into the subject.

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

this was really beautiful, while cementing stuff i sort of know as an 18 year old hopeless romantic without a fully developed frontal lobe yet, it was a really beautiful memoir and reminded me that not all love stories are romantic and life is messy and unpredictable and difficult and unfair but also really wonderful when you finally have that sense of self, when you are actually content and have peace.

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let me tell you, reading this at 18 was a surreal experience.
i fully expected not to like this book, for the simple reason that dolly's life is utterly unrelatable to me. i'm not a social butterfly, i'm not a millenial, i'm socially awkward. but maybe that's the exact reason why i soaked up her insights and advice like a sponge. insights about things i've never experienced.

and though dolly and i don't even share the same generation, i could relate to a lot of her fears—losing friends through growing up/apart, the fear of getting older and not being where you expected to be, and the feeling of slowly running out of time.

everything i know about love gave me extreme fomo, but at the same time also eased some of my other fears and worries about life. i loved dolly's takes on therapy and (female) friendships and platonic love.

will definitely re-read in a few years.

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emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

The best book I’ve read to date.

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challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective

5.0

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lighthearted reflective medium-paced

2.5

a few bits were really insightful... but mostly i got fed up with listening to an incredibly privileged, privately educated white women tell out of touch stories about how funny binge drinking is and how much her (above average) life sucked.

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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