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Alles, was ich weiß über die Liebe by Dolly Alderton

29 reviews

camillarossi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Grief

han_amey's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol

racheltheripper's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

Very enjoyable read - I felt like the fluffy bits (recipes, satirical emails) were unnecessary, and took a bit from the rest of the memoir. There were also a few moments where the stories seemed to be told out of chronological order, which could have just been me zoning out...

But the emotional journey of Dolly's relationships and stories from her 20s were pretty relatable for a 32 year old who has lost one best friend to an untimely death and another due to just growing apart. Dolly expressed these emotions beautifully. And as the narrator of the audiobook, she is damn entertaining. 

I wouldn't go to this book for advice by any means - her experience is unique and not a reflection of my own in a lot of ways. But it's... Comforting? It's also an easy, enjoyable read, and it's kind of fun to read the audiobook and Kindle version (America) for the subtle changes in rhetoric. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, and Grief

madeline_p4's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Toxic relationship

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

let me tell you, reading this at 18 was a surreal experience.
i fully expected not to like this book, for the simple reason that dolly's life is utterly unrelatable to me. i'm not a social butterfly, i'm not a millenial, i'm socially awkward. but maybe that's the exact reason why i soaked up her insights and advice like a sponge. insights about things i've never experienced.

and though dolly and i don't even share the same generation, i could relate to a lot of her fears—losing friends through growing up/apart, the fear of getting older and not being where you expected to be, and the feeling of slowly running out of time.

everything i know about love gave me extreme fomo, but at the same time also eased some of my other fears and worries about life. i loved dolly's takes on therapy and (female) friendships and platonic love. 

will definitely re-read in a few years.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Medical content

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Grief

pau0704's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

4.25

I came across this book in a Walmart shelf and I immediately felt called by its name. Didn't read it until a year later and that was a mistake. 
I loved this book. I must say, at the beginning I felt weirded out by it, just a little, her infancy and teenage years were something. But as soon as we reached the 20's more specifically the 25's I started to adore this book (might have something to do with the fact that I was turning 25 when I reached the part when she's 25), I started to feel so related with this book at that part, so understood. Since reading it I have done nothing but recommend this book. Loved the memoir, I'll be reading more of those hoping to find something like this again. Some chapters are so funny, and some are so chaotic, and there's a couple that are so sad, I just enjoyed this book so much overall that I finished it in less than a week. Please read this book, you won't regret it (most likely)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness, and Grief

kindlepixie's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

For me this was like reading the diary of the older sister I never had.

Even tho I'm in my 20's and I can't relate to most of this book (I'm from a third world country and way too scared of men) it was nice (and scary af) reading about Dolly's experiences with dealing with her ownself, men and friends and all these kinds of love and relationships.

Her little life lessons gave me a lot to reflect and to consider in these years of my life where we are like baby adults trying to find a place to fit.

My favorite parts were when she talks about her friendships with women (specially Fairly), I really loved that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content

arthurjentges04's review against another edition

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

4.0

this book is incredibly well written and the audiobook well narrated. dolly alderton knows her shit and how to articulate herself. i found this book to be incredibly relatable for the most part (not so much the turning 30/existential crisis part, because i’m 19 and barely and adult lol, but the rest). this book speaks about societal pressures, romance, eating disorders, unhealthy coping through drug and alcohol abuse, growing into adulthood and out of your childhood, the importance of platonic love(!!!), loss and grief, letting go and accepting and sooo much more. no matter your age, this book has something important to say to you and you have something valuable to learn from it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol

chevellemacias's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Death