Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

3 reviews

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I laughed. I cried. I learned. I was worried with the first part of the book and the talks of eating disorders (which usually trigger me to dnf books) but, Dolly just got more interesting with each chapter. It definitely felt like either a podcast or a gossip sesh with a friend but the way it made me self reflect, cry, and fall in love with Dolly was incredibly meaningful. I normally take much longer to read nonfiction as I get bored but this took me a fraction of the time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Dysphoria, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Cursing, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Acephobia/Arophobia, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Medical content, Abandonment, Vomit, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

ieotter13's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

This book hit almost every emotion: sad, funny, hopeful, encouraging - but most of all touched what love actually means: not just the hopeless romantics you see in film, the one night stands of your teenage/early twenties, or long term relationships, but  true love that comes in friendships and meeting new people and going to new places and everything in between. the intermittent recipes and emails took some getting used to and I found it a little slow towards the middle, but by the end I couldn’t put it down. While the stories in here definitely hit home as a teenager, I can see this book being even more poignant the older I get. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide

jessicohen15's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

Read this on my period and it had me reflecting on my romantic and platonic relationships hard. Just called my therapist to make an appointment after ghosting her for a full college semester. I took a lot of good from Alderton’s wisdom, many perfect anecdotes for my notes app, but can’t help but feel sad after finishing because it’s a memoir. Real life, not a fantasy and a reminder that life is flawed and not wrapped up all nicely with a bow on top. Go after life. That’s my takeaway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Dementia, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship