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Schitterende kleine dingen: adviezen over liefde en leven van iemand die bijna alles al heeft meegemaakt by Cheryl Strayed

30 reviews

katerina_l's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

scvqa's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

“One hot afternoon during the era in which you’ve gotten yourself ridiculously tangled up with heroin, you will be riding the bus and thinking what a worthless piece of crap you are when a little girl will get on the bus holding the strings of two purple balloons. She’ll offer you one of the balloons, but you won’t take it because you believe you no longer have a right to such tiny beautiful things. You’re wrong. You do."

“Did you know your sink was made in Argentina?” I asked when I was able to speak.
“Argentina?” he replied.
By way of answer, I reached up and ran my finger over the tiny sticker on the bottom of his sink that said Made in Argentina.” [...] That Made in Argentina sticker isn’t under the bathroom sink anymore. We don’t even live in the house with that bathroom sink. Before we moved out—years after we first became lovers—Mr. Sugar meticulously peeled the sticker off and with it he made me a card.
Made in Argentina it says on the front. Inside he wrote, “But it feels just like home.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cursing

fran_bielar's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

I’m glad i read it. Some stories weren’t as impactful but some were really really moving. Every trigger warning possible for this book but it was a great collection of stories about people and their lives - specifically looking at the harder/darker sides of people. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

These are hard stories about the darker sides of people’s lives. They talk about their trauma and why they are the way they are. This is why there are so many trigger warnings. Not every story discusses each topic, but overall the book does touch on these issues.

kiwichill's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Alcohol

clittleford3's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective

2.5

One thing is certain: Cheryl Strayed can write! 

While I didn’t always agree with the advice and some of the topics were not ones I wanted to hear, she did an excellent job of making each response a story and drawing you in to her tale. Much of her advice is anecdotal. The style sitting somewhere between Jenny Lawson & Brenè Btown. 

There is quite a bit of sex and sexuality related content and many four letter words that start with F.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Toxic friendship

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

Love love love this book. It’s cliche, but it really did make me both laugh and cry. This memoir came to me at exactly the right time and place in my life. Sugar/Cheryl kindly, lovingly, and patiently gives advice, which stems from stories from her own personal life, which, I must admit comes off a tad preachy at times. However, she is as vulnerable with her readers as her readers are with her, and I can tell that her advice comes from her heart. The letters she receives and the responses she gives feel like I’m reading a conversation between two friends, which is both sweet and cathartic in its own way.

There are two quotes towards the end of the memoir that I feel capture the essence of the advice Sugar/Cheryl gives:

“It was a becoming that I would not have dreamed was mine” (323)

“Your life will be a great and continous unfolding” (351).

I highly recommend this book. And if you like this one, then you will also love How to be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky/Ask Polly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

kaleidoscopic_roses's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexual assault, Grief, and Pregnancy

jessmbark's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

This book made me cry real tears three times as someone who lost their parents and as a twenty-something woman. 

That said, sometimes it felt like Strayed told a lot of her own story instead of addressing the writer's. If you like those podcasts or TikToks that discuss Reddit AITA posts, you will like this book. Many thanks to the mentor who recommended it to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and Abortion

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

readbyroska's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

Read it if any of the following applies to you, and you can’t find your peace:

you’re feeling lost, hopeless, not good enough, deserving but unlucky, regretful, guilty, ashamed, disempowered, confused, heartbroken, lonely, isolated, alone, misunderstood, underachieving. 

Read if you are a partner, wife, husband, mother, father, boyfriend, girlfriend, daughter, son, child, friend, fuck buddy, teacher, student.

Read it if you don’t have anyone in your life who can love you and know you but still tell it to your straight. 

You will find something here for you, so sift through and find it.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Classism

koplomps's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment