Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

20 reviews

sugasclementine's review against another edition

funny inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Addiction

Moderate: Fatphobia and Emotional abuse

melodranna's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Drug use, Alcoholism, Addiction, Fatphobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer

cutepatzie's review against another edition

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

3.75

It's a good book but many elements maybe will not fit the life of people. It's still a good book, it's very reflective about life. Its have good advice but as I mention not everything is for everyone. But still is a good book to read at least once.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Dysphoria, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Terminal illness, and Cancer

madelinedalton's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.25

Dolly Alderton’s writing has absolutely knocked my socks off once again. What an incredible talent. It’s like she crawled inside my brain and put some of my deepest, gnawing feelings into words. Some of those feelings I didn’t even know I had—she just laid them out on the page and revealed them to me. I feel so seen by this woman and will definitely be re-reading both this book and Ghosts sometime next year.

This isn’t a five star book because: 1) I felt it didn’t hit its stride till around ~80 pages in and 2) there’s a teensy bit of casual fatphobia in here that I didn’t particularly like (such as her friend Farly loving reality TV programs like My 600 Lb. Life, except it was the UK equivalent which I can’t remember the name of). Also, I found myself deeply relating to the “Being a Bit Thin, Being a Bit Fat” chapter quite a bit, but I wonder if there was some fatphobic stuff in there that I couldn’t clock because I’m not a fat person. I’d be curious to hear how fat readers feel about this book.  

I think this book has a really specific target demographic. All the negative reviews I’ve seen have been from folks outside that demographic. I am squarely within the target demographic for this book, so I loved it. Cannot recommend this enough if you’re a 20-something or 30-something woman!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Drug use

Moderate: Cancer and Death

Minor: Fatphobia

laurabenitez's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Drug use, Eating disorder, Alcohol, Cancer, and Terminal illness

claudiamacpherson's review

dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Cursing, Fatphobia, and Grief

Minor: Sexual content

rachelagain's review

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Fatphobia

afion's review against another edition

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Mental illness, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

Moderate: Terminal illness, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Cancer

Minor: Homophobia and Transphobia

chrisy's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder

inophiaa's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Self harm, Mental illness, Grief, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

Moderate: Death