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Dear Sophie, Love Sophie: A Graphic Memoir in Diaries, Letters, and Lists by Sophie Lucido Johnson
5 reviews
effect3cause's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
It was really sweet and heartwarming and what I needed to hear right now. Favorite sections were about mental health and body image. Gave me a new perspective on self harm. Honestly, I wish polyamory was something she talked about, since she thanked her 3 partners in the acknowledgements!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming and Self harm
Moderate: Eating disorder
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Mental illness
hnagarne's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Eating disorder, and Body shaming
Moderate: Fatphobia
tangleroot_eli's review
emotional
slow-paced
I liked this book best in the parts where Young Sophie writes about issues Adult Sophie still grapples with. In those sections, I found Adult Sophie beautifully open, humble, and honest - all things young people need and deserve from adults in their lives. In most of the other parts, I found Adult Sophie smugly self-congratulatory and needlessly condescending.
I do empathize: Adult Sophie's braggadocio reads like the frantic posturing of someone who knows they don't have it all together and desperately wants to keep anyone else from noticing. And maybe Adult Sophie felt that was what her younger self needed to hear from her. But if my younger self received a lot of those letters from my adult self, I would feel even worse about my current situation because I would know that I grew up to become kind of an asshole.
I do empathize: Adult Sophie's braggadocio reads like the frantic posturing of someone who knows they don't have it all together and desperately wants to keep anyone else from noticing. And maybe Adult Sophie felt that was what her younger self needed to hear from her. But if my younger self received a lot of those letters from my adult self, I would feel even worse about my current situation because I would know that I grew up to become kind of an asshole.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Self harm, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexism, and Medical content
Minor: Chronic illness
aquariusisms's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Body shaming, and Self harm
walskishere's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
5.0
This is a great book for anyone struggling with mental health, and especially those that struggle with their inner child. This book had great, wise lessons, admitted there are still things with which the adult version of Sophie deals, and an acknowledgment that even older Sophie will likely know more.
There are some trigger warnings, so please see below, and/or research them yourself!
There are some trigger warnings, so please see below, and/or research them yourself!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Self harm and Eating disorder
Moderate: Body shaming
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