Reviews with content warning for Alcohol - Everything I Know About Love

'I would like to pause the story a moment to talk about ‘nothing will change’. I’ve heard it said to me repeatedly by women I love during my twenties when they move in with boyfriends, get engaged, move abroad, get married, get pregnant. ‘Nothing will change.’ It drives me bananas. Everything will change. Everything will change. The love we have for each other stays the same, but the format, the tone, the regularity and the intimacy of our friendship will change for ever.'

'Because I am enough. My heart is enough. The stories and the sentences twisting around my mind are enough. I am fizzing and frothing and buzzing and exploding. I'm bubbling over and burning up. My early-morning walks and my late-night baths are enough. My loud laugh at the pub is enough. My piercing whistle, my singing in the shower, my double-jointed toes are enough. I am a just-pulled pint with a good, frothy head on it. I am my own universe; a galaxy; a solar system. I am the warm-up act, the main event, and the backing singers. And if this is it, if this is all there is- just me and the trees and the sky and the seas- I know now that that's enough.'

'You are moving out of the realm of fantasy "when I grow up" and adjusting to the reality that you're there; it's happening.'

'I hadn't ever thought that a man could love me in the same way that my friends love me; that I could love a man with the same commitment and care with which I love them.'

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aniquegrace's review against another edition

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challenging funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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polyglotbookworm's review against another edition

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medium-paced

2.0

Protagonist too naive, also not a fan of non explicitly stated TWs (drugs,l and alcohol abuse). A book about pretty privilege, def not my cup of tea.

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abbystapleton's review

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

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julialobo's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

4.25

this was a journey. i liked it, i felt like mehhh, and i loved it
she talks a lot about alcohol. i really didn’t like that

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sofiadidonato's review against another edition

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adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

3.0

Those final chapters totally like got me

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ellexelle's review against another edition

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Nostalgia trip of the early 2000s was fun and then all the drinking and drugs was tiring and repetitive. Many stories may have been fun at the time for the people that were there, it just didn't translate that way onto the page. Didn't find her privilege relatable. Worst of all, she writes as if she's self aware without actually developing any self awareness.

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nataliegray's review

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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