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_happilyeverafter_'s review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer
Minor: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Death, and Terminal illness
danilebron's review against another edition
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hopeful
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medium-paced
5.0
maybe controversial, but also not since this is a p popular book, but i really liked this. i don’t feel like it taught me anything about myself necessarily or like i saw myself exactly but this was such a raw/candid telling of her experience of love/being loved/loving that i think deserves the hype it gets. was dolly unhinged at times? absolutely, but i think she knows that too and your 20s (i am in my 20s) are an uncertain time. i think my favorite kind of love in books is between friends, it’s beautiful and i want it for everyone and im so glad dolly wrote about her experiences of love with her friends (and what it’s like to be jealous when those people find other kinds of love don’t act like you all have never been jealous or felt some type of fomo because people in your life are experiencing something you’re not). i saw someone say that the take away from this book shouldn’t be to love your friends or something like that and that felt very reductive. at the end she’s very clear about what she has and hasn’t experienced so idk what’s up with that reductive comment like the takeaway was love is there for those who have the eyes to see it!!! lol but for real in my opinion, it’s that we have love in our lives in different ways and that we’re deserving of love no matter what. it’s that love is probably going to look different from what we imagine and that’s okay. there’s also stuff about growing up and understanding yourself thrown in this book too besides the focal point on love. overall, i thought she was funny and appreciate this book/her experience. i think it’s always a privilege to read a really well written memoir because ultimately i don’t know dolly but i enjoyed getting to know her through great writing and many of her not so great moments (but also some pretty good ones and tons of recipes that made me wish i was more of a chef lol).
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Moderate: Death and Eating disorder
neele11thd's review against another edition
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hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.75
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Minor: Death and Eating disorder
wordsofclover's review against another edition
funny
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lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
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Minor: Sexual content, Death, Drug use, Alcohol, and Eating disorder
redefiningrachel's review against another edition
emotional
funny
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medium-paced
5.0
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Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Drug use
Moderate: Cancer, Sexual content, Death, Mental illness, and Grief
clara01's review against another edition
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4.0
I highly recommend reading this book, it's definitely worth it if you're a woman in your 20s still figuring life out. I laughed, gasped and cried.
I found the first half to be a bit confusing especially with all the time jumps. At one point she's 20 and then rewind to when Dolly is 15 and the fast forward to the next boyfriend, I got quite lost.
The 2nd half of the book I loved. It's written so intimately I felt like I was really seeing inside Dolly's 20-something head and holding onto every bit of advice she gave.
I'm 22 now but maybe I'll reread this book in a year or 2 and see if there's more I can take from it. At the moment all I can think is I wish I had the love of a friendship group like Dolly's.
I found the first half to be a bit confusing especially with all the time jumps. At one point she's 20 and then rewind to when Dolly is 15 and the fast forward to the next boyfriend, I got quite lost.
The 2nd half of the book I loved. It's written so intimately I felt like I was really seeing inside Dolly's 20-something head and holding onto every bit of advice she gave.
I'm 22 now but maybe I'll reread this book in a year or 2 and see if there's more I can take from it. At the moment all I can think is I wish I had the love of a friendship group like Dolly's.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Death, Drug use, Cancer, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Self harm
Minor: Toxic relationship
alisonannk's review against another edition
emotional
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hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
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Graphic: Terminal illness, Drug use, Body shaming, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Death, Sexism, Grief, and Cursing
cdua's review against another edition
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lighthearted
fast-paced
4.25
I actually love this book!!! I was a bit surprised at that because to be honest, I didn't know it was an autobiographical memoir before I started and I found Dolly's lifestyle hard to relate to. But she has a way of making her words flow and enrapturing you in her stories that is just magical. Despite reading about this lifestyle that felt so distant from me, there were moments where a specific lesson or sentence would defy logic and make me think that there is nothing truer than what I just read. The pacing confused me at the beginning but I ended up really enjoyed the all-over-the-place anthology nature of the book. My favorite stories have to be of Farly and Florence, and how Dolly writes about them with this undeniably genuine love and affection. My takeaways largely have to do with the preciousness of that friendship and as I enter my 20s and various friendships shift in form, Dolly reassures that change is not a sign of a weakening relationship. It's just different. I think I'll look back on this with a little more reverence in the future, but for now, it was a highly enjoyable and funny read that I am happy to have encountered at this point in my life.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Death
Minor: Eating disorder
ali_vangundy's review against another edition
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reflective
medium-paced
4.75
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Graphic: Eating disorder
Moderate: Cancer and Death
rorlav22's review against another edition
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funny
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reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer
Minor: Death and Drug use