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Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

I was afraid I was going to hate this book when I started. The introductory chapters almost felt like the author was blindly feeling around inside her head for stories that offered no real other than that they were about sex and gender and therefore fell under the topic of the book's overarching themes. There is a lot of shallow, simplistic analysis and revelations that are luckily outweighed by generally well paced, engaging, sometimes alarming, but thoughtful anecdotes that build on each other to great effect.

After worrying i was going to hate this about a quarter in this turned into an interesting anthropological study on straight white heterosexual millennials which then reveals itself to be an endearing and self reflective story about an ongoing journey of yearning and self acceptance. It plays it safe sometimes and refuses to dig deeper into certain stories that obviously play a larger part in the psychological and emotional portrait she's painting of herself but ultimately this remains a satisfying and worthwhile read.