Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

6 reviews

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

daryn's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cancer, and Alcohol

Moderate: Grief and Medical content

lara_r's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Terminal illness, Eating disorder, Medical content, Alcohol, Death, Chronic illness, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Pregnancy

luananki's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.25

i really really wanted to love this book and there were definitely parts i loved and enjoyed but it also contained a lot of aspects and decisions i didn’t understand

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Alcohol, Death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Body shaming, and Grief

Minor: Misogyny and Medical content

jessicohen15's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

Read this on my period and it had me reflecting on my romantic and platonic relationships hard. Just called my therapist to make an appointment after ghosting her for a full college semester. I took a lot of good from Alderton’s wisdom, many perfect anecdotes for my notes app, but can’t help but feel sad after finishing because it’s a memoir. Real life, not a fantasy and a reminder that life is flawed and not wrapped up all nicely with a bow on top. Go after life. That’s my takeaway.

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Content Warnings

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

fayereadsbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed my first non-fiction read of 2021. It is the memoir of Dolly Alderton and her experiences of relationships, love, friendships and life in her teens and twenties. It discusses lots of serious topics, such as alcohol and grief. Definitely check out the content warnings as this book got quite dark. 

Dolly lives a life of booze, parties, one-night stands and clubbing. This book confirmed to me that this isn't what I want to do with my life (nothing against the people who do but its just not for me)

My favourite chapter was 'Enough'. It made me cry and I was so glad that Dolly was finally able to see her worth. Even if you don't want to read the whole book, i would encourage you to try and read just this chapter as it will help a lot of people to understand how special and perfect they are in this world and hopefully help them to see their worth. 

Farly seems like the sort of friend everyone needs in there life, she seems so so lovely. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, and Sexual content

disordered eating and excessive weight loss, leukaemia