Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

54 reviews

grayraincurtain's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Miscarriage

marieketron's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

This book may be awkward to read if you’re actually a daughter of Ali Wong, but it packs some practical life lessons and wraps them up in a lot raunchy humour sprinkled with sincere support. I liked the touch of her husband adding and reading the afterword (the voice sounds very sexy). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Miscarriage, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexism, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Cancer

Minor: Ableism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Excrement, Fatphobia, and Grief

ceedy's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage

danaleelin's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Drug use

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Medical content

vash_e's review against another edition

funny inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Miscarriage

rowiash's review against another edition

funny fast-paced

4.5

Dear Girls has been an absolute delight to listen to. The framing device of “letter to your children” lends a wonderful heartfelt glow to the more tender moments that balanced out the hilariously raunchy stories throughout. Would definitely listen again when in the mood for some refreshingly irreverent reflections on motherhood.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Miscarriage

jayisreading's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

So, for the first time, I decided to listen to an audiobook. I still had the ebook as well, but considering that it was narrated by Ali Wong herself, it seemed worth following along as she narrated. And wow, I think I enjoyed Dear Girls far more because of the audiobook. It makes all the difference that you can hear how she wanted the words to come across, and it often felt as though I was actually listening to a standup show.

This is a lighthearted memoir that will make you laugh (especially if you’re a fan of her comedy). I really like the framing of the memoir to be a letter (of sorts) to her children (who definitely should follow their mother’s advice and not pick this book up until they’re of age), especially because it seemed to create moments for Wong to include down-to-earth, silly jabs at domestic life.

Between all the humor, though, you get some genuine advice for her children about navigating life. You can tell this memoir was written with a lot of love and reflection on how Wong’s life went, how it’s going, and what’s to come. She strikes a great balance between humor and thoughtfulness that I appreciated.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Racism and Sexism

bookswithsoumi's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Ali Wong‘s standup specials on Netflix made me laugh out loud, and I even went to see her live in Massachusetts back in 2018! Apparently, I love memoirs written and read by comedians because I’ve already listened to Amy Poehler’s memoir, and I listened to Colin Jost ‘s memoir right after Ali’s. When I was listening to Ali Wong’s memoir, I felt like it was just like her standup! In a series of essays addressed to her two young daughters, Ali talks about about her life growing up as a mixed ethnicity (Chinese and Vietnamese) Asian woman growing up in California, her hard work trying to make it in standup comedy, her fun times in college, her trouble dating in New York City, and all the challenges she faces as a mother. 

I appreciated how emotional and raw she got, especially when discussing how she coped with her miscarriage, pregnancy, and motherhood. Miscarriage is a topic often shoved under the rug as women sometimes feel guilty or ashamed when the misfortune occurs. It’s so helpful to share these experiences so other women can feel less alone, and she recounts how grateful she was to know that other strong women like Michelle Obama and Beyonce. Ali gets into the (sometimes graphic) details of childbirth, breastfeeding, and motherhood. It’s totally unglamorous, but Ali manages to make her horrifying experiences hilarious. 

Like all my five star reviews, I feel that I will come back to this book later in life when I am looking for inspiration. Especially the chapter titled, “Tips for Giving Birth,” because I just really enjoyed her wisdom. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny and Vomit

aimzthereader's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Eating disorder, Vomit, Miscarriage, and Drug use

shelbo's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Racial slurs

Moderate: Miscarriage