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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
36 reviews
leontyna's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Grief, and Death of parent
bookhails's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Pedophilia and Sexual assault
waytoomanybooks's review against another edition
5.0
There are two quotes towards the end of the memoir that I feel capture the essence of the advice Sugar/Cheryl gives:
“It was a becoming that I would not have dreamed was mine” (323)
“Your life will be a great and continous unfolding” (351).
I highly recommend this book. And if you like this one, then you will also love How to be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky/Ask Polly.
Graphic: Mental illness and Grief
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
amelia_d's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Grief
amkleintje's review against another edition
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment
stefanies_books's review against another edition
I think as individual columns this works but as a collection it felt condescending and repetitive. If I could have read one chapter a week (instead of a library loan) it might have been a better experience but I’ll also be fine not finishing this one. IMO this is blog content that should stay that way rather than published in a book format
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Abortion, and Death of parent
nuuamuikkunen's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Death of parent
dealingwithdragons's review against another edition
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
idesofmarch's review against another edition
Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault
Moderate: Sexual content
sreddous's review against another edition
5.0
I LOVE the way Sugar writes. The balance of sweet and gentle but also firm makes so much sense to me. There are some gorgeous, highly-quotable moments here. There are some heartbreaking stories. I felt gut-punched by a lot of these stories and questions. I believe Sugar knows just when to use long, flowery sentences and short, hard-hitting ones.
I see some other reviews saying that the advice doesn't work for them because a ton of these answers/columns involve Sugar telling her own stories as comparison -- this is a fair critique, but for me personally, it really really works. My brain likes to see a "similar yet different" story that also "tells the same moral/arrives at the same conclusion", so if your brain also works similarly, I definitely recommend this. But, I can see why Sugar's "here's a story that happened to me that's kinda relevant" format might not work for everyone. Still, it worked like heck for me.
Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault
Moderate: Drug use and Emotional abuse
Minor: Suicidal thoughts