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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

53 reviews

grxce_grxce's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25


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tenderrebellions's review against another edition

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emotional reflective slow-paced

2.5

  • very much was a love letter to her best friend - I appreciated that this book didn't center romantic love
  • at times felt like the alcohol and hook ups were a bit glorified. It was described as self-destructive inone sentence - and then like a great adventure and loads of fun in the following paragraph.
  • While reading I got all the details about the spiral into anxiety and a dark mental place. But the journey into a healthy life didn't receive as much attention in the story. I was left feeling like the dark times were the best ones, they were the adventure - everything that follows just a footnote. As someone who sometimes struggles with not glorifying their own turbulent past this wasn't a great read.
  • the book does a beautiful job at capturing the "is this all there is"-feelings when nearing your 30s. And the feelings of jealousy / being left behind by all your couple friends and the loneliness that can sometimes come with being single.

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mch101's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5


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miamcmillan's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

3.75

really lovely and millennial and got me out of my reading slump

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claudiamacpherson's review

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dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

3.5


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hannahbailey's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

3.0

Whilst an easy and enjoyable read, I did come away from the book frustrated. Alderton was on the edge of something great here -- she's a natural born storyteller both in her writing and the speeches she recounts throughout the book -- but instead this memoir fell into the self-indulgent trap. From what I gathered through this text, the author has led quite a privileged life so far and I felt that she didn't do enough to acknowledge this. At no point does she recognise that growing up in/near London, attending private school, her whiteness and financial stability are at least part of the reason as to why she's successful now. Whilst this wasn't the theme of the memoir, which was love and relationships, I felt that ignoring these privileges made the book seem shallow. A quick google reveals she has since acknowledged her privilege in interviews. A quick google also reveals her real name is Hannah 😭

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babsi_222's review

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adventurous challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

HUGE TW: EATING DISORDER !!!!(one whole chapter and a few small mentions about it afterwards)
I absolutely adore this book. this is really good if you want like a “big sister advise book”!! I don’t agree with everything or every “tip” she gives but that’s okay. we can have different views and opinions about stuff. I think this book is very well written and it’s not too complicated to understand.
I did not remember many of the side characters because they aren’t really that important in the book as they mostly appear for a short time. The book features a lot of different people and it can be hard to remember all of them but you really don’t have to. if you want you can make  a small character sheet but I think that it’s only important to know the main characters or the characters that often appear in the book.
 this book is about the author, Dolly Alderton‘s life and I absolutely love the way the book is created with the chapters and the smaller lists/ recipes in between. They create an atmosphere where it’s comfortable,easy and fast for me to read. 
I love it! I would recommend it to everybody but what I would say is: the last few chapters are very angsty because she just has her 30th birthday so she’s kind of freaking out and talking about life moving fast so if that’s something you’re  also scared of and don’t want to be reminded of it, just keep in mind that the last two chapters are going to be about that. The chapters end with a positive message so it’s okay :))

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ajone540's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0


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claranasman02's review against another edition

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hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0


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laurataylor's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5


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