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sarahmbarnett's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Cancer and Eating disorder
luna_98's review against another edition
3.0
the second half of the book
i’m torn because i think there were some good quotes and i like the way she described platonic friendship love. but i truly struggled to finish it and i think it put me in a reading slump.
i’ve never read any of her fiction work and i don’t think i would want to after my lackluster experience with this book. i know that sounds horrible but i am just being honest :(
Graphic: Alcoholism and Eating disorder
Moderate: Grief and Cancer
arthurjentges04's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Grief, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Addiction, Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death
seasonofreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Death
Minor: Mental illness, Body shaming, Cursing, Grief, and Sexual content
millie_blue's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Eating disorder
Minor: Cancer and Grief
jeimy's review against another edition
4.0
- raw, witty, funny writing
- loving on your girlfriends
- chapters interspersed with recipes, lists, short stories
- a good cry
💭 my fave quotes:
“There isn’t a pebble on the beach of my history that she has left unturned. She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend.”
“You were made so that someone could love you. Let them love you.”
“I thought about how we’d known each other for twenty years and how, in all that time, I’d never got bored of her. I thought of how I’d only fallen more and more in love with her the older we grew and the more experiences we shared.”
“Life is a wonderful, mesmerizing, magical, fun, silly thing. And humans are astounding. We all know we’re going to die, and yet we still live. We shout and curse and care when the full bin bag breaks, yet with every minute that passes we edge closer to the end. We marvel at a nectarine sunset over the M25 or the smell of a baby’s head or the efficiency of flat-pack furniture, even though we know that everyone we love will cease to exist one day. I don’t know how we do it.”
from the acknowledgements:
“And, finally, thank you to Farly, without whose unwavering cheering and championing I would not have written this book. You are—you always will be—my favorite love story.”
gah, i’m in my feels all over again.
Graphic: Eating disorder and Alcohol
Moderate: Body shaming and Death
gervincaminhoes's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Eating disorder
valegbecerra's review against another edition
4.25
Added a parasocial relationship with Dolly Alderton to my cart.
Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism
beanie_bob's review against another edition
4.25
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.
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Eating disorder, and Cancer
Minor: Drug use
grace33's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcohol, and Cancer
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Alcoholism