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vaykay's review
challenging
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
Received this book in a giveaway.
I liked it; I don't know if I needed to read it. It felt comforting in some ways because I have felt similarly in very different situations, but my heart also hurt for Pittard and the years she spent with a shitty best friend and a shitty husband. Maybe she was shitty to them too; I guess she tries to raise awareness to that in the book... but I am not fully convinced that her supposed shitty-ness somehow balances the scales with their shitty-ness. At least I found Pittard's concluding remarks inspiring; sometimes I struggle to recognize that time is a construct and you can find happiness and worth even when you spent n years doing something or a submerged in a situation that you regretted or hated or felt was totally wasted or wasteful. A book like this from Pittard was one of those happy reminders that there's no such thing as wasted life, even when the time spent is sad to look upon.
I liked it; I don't know if I needed to read it. It felt comforting in some ways because I have felt similarly in very different situations, but my heart also hurt for Pittard and the years she spent with a shitty best friend and a shitty husband. Maybe she was shitty to them too; I guess she tries to raise awareness to that in the book... but I am not fully convinced that her supposed shitty-ness somehow balances the scales with their shitty-ness. At least I found Pittard's concluding remarks inspiring; sometimes I struggle to recognize that time is a construct and you can find happiness and worth even when you spent n years doing something or a submerged in a situation that you regretted or hated or felt was totally wasted or wasteful. A book like this from Pittard was one of those happy reminders that there's no such thing as wasted life, even when the time spent is sad to look upon.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, and Pregnancy