Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

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

13 reviews

calicos's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

oh man. amy’s reflections on a life without experiencing romantic love while desperately wanting it and aging without it really resonated. i appreciated her immense vulnerability in discussing the messy, complicated way it affects all aspects of her life, even when she was aware how deeply flawed some of her thinking was. she put to words some things i’ve had a hard time expressing to others. you could tell she’s a poet with how beautiful the prose was. i also adored the concept of having an album accompany her through her life and using it as a tool for reflection. i’m not familiar with the album but it’ll be a treat to listen to now <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Death

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

kirstym25's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Abortion

amberinpieces's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexism, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Gaslighting, and Classism

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

pookiee's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

the parts about living alone and yearning for romantic love despite having given up on it are poignant

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Eating disorder and Mental illness

arayo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Abortion

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

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

books_baking_brews's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Abortion, and Pregnancy

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