Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life by Amy Key

5 reviews

marionhoney's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Read very quickly and would like to return to it to highlight passages that resonate

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Excrement

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

ameliahockey's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

I’ve never related to a book more, Amy Key is a stunning writer and I feel like everyone, whether you’re single or not, should read this beautiful, heartfelt book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse

bella_cavicchi's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

ARRANGEMENTS IN BLUE was, for lack of a more perfect word, stunning. I repeatedly found myself swept up in a passage, convinced that Keys had taken the words straight from my own brain. I don’t long for romantic love in the same way that she does—that is to say, I love being single and can envision my life without a romantic partner—but I nevertheless found solace in her reckoning with the many ways in which society is (unfairly) shaped around coupledom. I share her desire for a re-centering of life around love, community, and intimacy in their many glorious platonic forms. 

 

If I have one complaint, it’s that the Joni Mitchell framing feels a bit of a stretch. But that is a small gripe in an otherwise impressive prose debut. 

 

I loved, I cried, I now recommend. One to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Body shaming

erd's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

The story bounces between easy reading and visceral emotional moments. Overall a beautifully candid book that makes you feel like comforting the author as much as feeling comforted by the author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Excrement, and Vomit

deanna_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I loved this book so much. A  celebration and lamentation of solitude. One for the sea-swimming, piano-playing, dinner-party-loving romantics. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child abuse, Self harm, and Sexual violence