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Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton

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unfilteredlets's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

shelterfromreality's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

This was a truly enjoyable read. I wasn’t sure what to expect of this book but in the end it’s just a very relatable piece of literature, there’s very little importance in the names of the people because in the end they’re all conveying a feeling or participating in some anecdote, which isn’t inherently bad. I think this book is not as self aware as it shows and that the word feminist is used way too often and devoid of meaning.

I like the little recipes and the invitations to the events, she’s really good at evoking these different feelings through specific images or like metaphors, it’s truly interesting.

This book reminds me of The Details, in the sense that it touches on girlhood and the role that other people have in creating your personality, specially towards the end, when she has a more mature view on it but where The Details focuses on the little things, this book only tries to evoke a general feeling, relatability.

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3.25

I related to a very small part of this book but that part was very deep and unpleasant to read about. I feel like I learned from it a bit so I guess needed but idk. I think I wish I read this about a year ago instead. The rest of the book was sad to read, idk if it was supposed to be but that’s how I felt. Overall I didn’t have fun times reading this book so… yeah

sachnd's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

4.75

ninzlu's review against another edition

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4.0

3.75 ⭐️ I definitely liked this book more as I kept on reading. I resonated with her message about the importance of female friendships, but could have really done without the random recipes, letters, text convos, and wedding invites through the book. I felt like they really interrupted the flow of the book and didn’t add anything.