Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

159 reviews

valegbecerra's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

Felt like facetiming a friend with a facemask on. 

Added a parasocial relationship with Dolly Alderton to my cart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism

beanie_bob's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

I’m thoroughly impressed with how organically the narrative grew with Dolly as she took us through her journey of teenager to twenty-something to thirty. It feels like we spend so long in the drunken, risky, exciting, enviable, sad era of her twenties but before I knew it she was growing up.

Sometimes when I hear myself talk I think ‘wow, I sound so much older than I feel’. I feel 15 all the time. I feel unreal and babyish and shrunk down. And then I’ll have something to say about relationships or expectations or communication, and I’ll be a little bewildered that I have anything ‘grown up’ to say at all.

Last year I must have picked up on the ripple effect of this book; girls online everywhere were talking about girlhood, about the vitality and richness of their female friendships. This book had been making the rounds. I cannot argue with Dolly; the greatest love I’ve ever had has been with my friends.

I can understand how someone could get tired of this book and DNF around 25%. It’s all very white, middle-class, and British. I don’t know how well her party girl bit would have been received otherwise. But I think there is an audience for this.

I’m reminded a lot of Fleabag, but less sad. And Bridget Jone’s Diary. Give this a go if you like either of those.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Eating disorder, and Cancer

Minor: Drug use

grace33's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcohol, and Cancer

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Alcoholism

acorny's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.5

Laughed and cried with this one. Funny and introspective. Made me text all my girlfriends how much I love them <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Eating disorder

Moderate: Child death

chevellemacias's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Minor: Death

virgcole398's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, and Grief

rachelann88's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

2.0

Didn't change my life, wouldn't recommend to most people. Memoir of a women in her teens and twenties. Conversation around relationships, alcohol, and self-identity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Death and Cancer

meredith_clark's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Eating disorder

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Death, Child death, Body shaming, and Cancer

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Grief, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

ceedy's review against another edition

funny reflective sad medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Eating disorder