Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Alles, was ich weiß über die Liebe by Dolly Alderton

10 reviews

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I laughed. I cried. I learned. I was worried with the first part of the book and the talks of eating disorders (which usually trigger me to dnf books) but, Dolly just got more interesting with each chapter. It definitely felt like either a podcast or a gossip sesh with a friend but the way it made me self reflect, cry, and fall in love with Dolly was incredibly meaningful. I normally take much longer to read nonfiction as I get bored but this took me a fraction of the time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Dysphoria, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Cursing, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Acephobia/Arophobia, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Medical content, Abandonment, Vomit, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

tarnaflake's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Alcohol, and Chronic illness

laurajordensharris's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Child death, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

gabbynasty's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Cancer, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Alcoholism, Drug use, Addiction, and Eating disorder

lara_r's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Terminal illness, Eating disorder, Medical content, Alcohol, Death, Chronic illness, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Pregnancy

cutepatzie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

3.75

It's a good book but many elements maybe will not fit the life of people. It's still a good book, it's very reflective about life. Its have good advice but as I mention not everything is for everyone. But still is a good book to read at least once.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Dysphoria, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Terminal illness, and Cancer

maggie_hamel's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I think this book should be something every young woman reads. It reflected some of my own fears about the future and made me feel less alone.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug use, and Eating disorder

laurataylor's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Sexual content

jessicohen15's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

Read this on my period and it had me reflecting on my romantic and platonic relationships hard. Just called my therapist to make an appointment after ghosting her for a full college semester. I took a lot of good from Alderton’s wisdom, many perfect anecdotes for my notes app, but can’t help but feel sad after finishing because it’s a memoir. Real life, not a fantasy and a reminder that life is flawed and not wrapped up all nicely with a bow on top. Go after life. That’s my takeaway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Dementia, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

rosalind's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

Bumped it up to 4 stars (on Goodreads!) in the last 20 pages. Having come to the recent realisation that my close girlfriends are my main love story, I enjoyed the latter half far more than the first. This probably says more about my feelings towards my twenties (which I largely consider as treacherous), but that’s the point - this is one of those books where you’ll like it if you get it, and it will feel utterly meaningless, self indulgent drivel if you don’t. I particularly resented the recipes that interrupt the narrative - they only serve to draw further comparisons with Heartburn and in my opinion, Alderton is no Norah Ephron. Despite all this, I found myself happily floating downstream of this book, and I would be happy to recommend it to others if I think they need a hug from someone who’s been where they are - in short, people who will ‘get’ it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness and Death