Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Todo lo que sé sobre el amor by Dolly Alderton

93 reviews

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

seasonofreads's review against another edition

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

5.0

As someone on the cusp of turning 30, this book reached deep inside me and pulled out some much needed nostalgia and epiphanies about the last decade. Dolly is funny and smart, daring and brave, full of good advice and searing insights, and honest about her flaws in a way that is inspiring. You don’t have to be a fabulous blond party girl to get where she is coming from. You only need to be a woman who is living through their 20s and 30s to feel seen by this book. I’d venture to say women of all ages would feel seen, but I’m not in my further decades yet. Dolly’s story telling is vivid and romantic and so personal that you will hear her voice in your head even after you close the book. I loved it every minute of this memoir of sorts. I will be inhaling her next book asap! I highly recommend this book to one and all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death

Minor: Mental illness, Body shaming, Cursing, Grief, and Sexual content

milliebluecapon's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Cancer and Grief

saretta02's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Grief, and Eating disorder

virgcole398's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, and Grief

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Death, Child death, Body shaming, and Cancer

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Grief, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

wytherwytch's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

This book was slow to start for me. I just think I wasn't in the right mood for it but it got better as it progressed. It made me laugh, and it made it cry! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Death, Grief, Child death, Cancer, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

hi_im_annie_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

A really lovely book in portraying your 20s, it felt reassuring to me to hear someone else talk about the importance of friendships instead of other relationships. I did find the narrative a little difficult to follow timeline wise sometimes but that is probably more due to me listening to it instead of reading it. I loved the portrayal of platonic love and did sometimes wish there was less about romantic relationships and more about friendships but that's quite subjective.
Would definitely recommend reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcohol, and Drug use

Moderate: Terminal illness, Cancer, Child death, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Fatphobia

clariast7's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Death, Cancer, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Grief

my_a's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Eating disorder