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Dear Sophie, Love Sophie: A Graphic Memoir in Diaries, Letters, and Lists by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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wylovat's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.75

kathran's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

It’s interesting to read a book that is so honest - it’s a strange feeling to come away from a book feeling like I have known someone for years. Made me want to write an entry in my own journal.

sonyamirus's review

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hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

apoorva_kati's review

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challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

loganditti's review

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

bethany_fast's review

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5.0

You should read this even if you don't read graphic novels.

nsilvern's review

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emotional funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

3.5

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.

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