Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, Collected wisdom from her Sunday Times Style Column by Dolly Alderton

10 reviews

revoli's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Pandemic/Epidemic

annakh16's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Sexual content

pkc's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, and Eating disorder

mads_jpg's review

funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.25

While I loved Dolly Alderton's memoir, part of me was worried that I look back on it with rose-tinted glasses and that I wouldn't like Dear Dolly as much, but boy was I wrong. This book is what I think I expected her memoir to be - short chunks of life advice on varied topics - so that was a great surprise and it had all the humor and warmth of Alderton's writing that I'd loved last time. 

Unfortunately I borrowed this book from a friend so I didn't get to annotate it, but that gives me an excuse to read this a second time once I get my own copy.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

norwegianforestreader's review

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Cursing, Eating disorder, Grief, Fatphobia, Sexism, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Infidelity, Infertility, and Alcohol

bmceleney's review against another edition

informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Infidelity

alisonannk's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexism, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Drug use

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing, Stalking, Terminal illness, Infertility, and Mental illness

questingnotcoasting's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

I was interested in this because I've enjoyed Dolly's other books but I knew it wasn't really going to be my kind of book because I'm not the most introspective person and never read self help. I ended up skim-reading it and stopping and reading more closely when I got to bits which interested me. I also couldn't help but compare it to Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed which I read a few months ago. What I enjoyed most about that was that Strayed includes stories from her own life in her answers but in her introduction Dolly specifically mentions that she wanted to put less of herself into her writing, which is totally valid and understandable but meant a lot of the advice was quite generic. It was worth the read for the bits I enjoyed but I'm glad I got it out of the library instead of buying it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

issyd23's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.0

Getting huge Dolly Doctor nostalgia with this! Read in one sitting 4💬

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, and Infidelity

kirstym25's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity