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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
I have to admit that I found myself bored at times while I read this one. However, Cheryl's writing really is beautiful and some of the passages were excellent.
I can’t believe how much I loved this book. A collection of advice columns? You’ve got to be kidding! But I was hooked before I had read even ten pages. I want to have coffee with this author. I want her to join us around the Thanksgiving turkey. I want her to come to my mom’s house on Christmas. I want her to be my friend and confidante.
Without promise of or expectation for, this book inadvertently healed something within me. I found myself weeping openly for strangers I would never know and realizing that, despite our differences and the spaces between us, we are all humans yearning to be loved. Each word Cheryl (aka Sugar) wrote was like a white hot poker of truth to the heart that left me reeling from a miraid of emotions. You should read this. We should all read this. Thank you, a million times over, thank you.
Every twenty-something should read this. The profound wisdom of each story/response filled aches in my soul that I‘ve been searching for. Mostly, it’ll make you feel less alone.
A lovely book, and I super recommend the audiobook read by the author. It made me cry and think.
this book is so good. i think it is my bible. her memoir was the first i read, picked up in the library around 8 years ago. i have loved memoirs since. thank u cheryl i loveee you
I came into this imagining it as a memoir told over a series of advice columns. I never read the original website, and I generally don’t read advice articles. Instead, I saw this book as incremental unveilings of a woman’s journey through life, learning lessons and sharing them as applicable. Sometimes her comments were beautiful and profound, but not always - she’s human, after all.
Wow. Thanks, Julia, for putting this on your list. Otherwise, I might never have found it. This book is a compliation of letters and responses from the "Dear Sugar" online advice column. Reading this book, I felt like I was torn open and healed and held. The letters are raw and vulnerable and Sugar responds with such honesty and tenderness, balanced out with fairness and realism. It is just amazing. Her thougths on love and grief were like a punch in the gut. She has great insight into so many things, but doesn't pretend to be an expert on anything. I think it is just that she is a really good listener - if it is possible to "listen" in the context of the written word. It is really quite incredible.
This might be the soonest I have ever re-read a book after the initial read. Just as moving and amazing this time through. Wow. Love, love, love!
