Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day

6 reviews

franzi_'s review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility and Miscarriage

Minor: Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sakisreads's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

This was the book I didn’t know I NEEDED 😂

This was recommended to me by a friend I admire and adore ❤️ I also decided to read this because I like Elizabeth Day’s podcast but had never explored her writing before!

Anyway, wow, what a book! I loved the Friendship Tapes, with Day’s friends ranging in ages and holding many nuggets of wisdom. I also loved the candour with which uncomfortable friendships (e.g. friends who had ghosted, friends who did not celebrate your successes) were explored. When we met Becca for the first time, I gasped because I had a friend who also ghosted me and never explained why!

When Sathnam said ‘I’m so glad you’re not going back to being friends with her […] It shows you’ve got no standards. If you’re friends with her again, what does that mean about our friendship? It means you’ll be friends with anyone who’ll have you, no matter how badly they treated you’ made me feel SICK 😫 But it also made me realise that it’s okay not to be friends with everyone and that the people I DO cherish, cherish me back 🥹

Loved this so much. 4.5 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

kirstyreads's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Really good insight into friendships and the downsides that we can currently face around language and nurturing the friendships we have around us to best serve us. 

A lot of food for thought that will likely end up coming back to for a re-read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

milliebluecapon's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Miscarriage

Minor: Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

sorcha's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Grief, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, and Alcohol

mads_jpg's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.75

Love seeing friendships being seen as valuable in their own right alongside romantic relationships, rather than inherently beneath them. Part of me wishes I'd read a physical copy rather than the audiobook because I think I would've appreciated certain passages better, so will definitely be one I revisit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual harassment