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A review by sakisreads
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict by Elizabeth Day
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
This was the book I didn’t know I NEEDED 😂
This was recommended to me by a friend I admire and adore ❤️ I also decided to read this because I like Elizabeth Day’s podcast but had never explored her writing before!
Anyway, wow, what a book! I loved the Friendship Tapes, with Day’s friends ranging in ages and holding many nuggets of wisdom. I also loved the candour with which uncomfortable friendships (e.g. friends who had ghosted, friends who did not celebrate your successes) were explored. When we met Becca for the first time, I gasped because I had a friend who also ghosted me and never explained why!
When Sathnam said ‘I’m so glad you’re not going back to being friends with her […] It shows you’ve got no standards. If you’re friends with her again, what does that mean about our friendship? It means you’ll be friends with anyone who’ll have you, no matter how badly they treated you’ made me feel SICK 😫 But it also made me realise that it’s okay not to be friends with everyone and that the people I DO cherish, cherish me back 🥹
Loved this so much. 4.5 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨
This was recommended to me by a friend I admire and adore ❤️ I also decided to read this because I like Elizabeth Day’s podcast but had never explored her writing before!
Anyway, wow, what a book! I loved the Friendship Tapes, with Day’s friends ranging in ages and holding many nuggets of wisdom. I also loved the candour with which uncomfortable friendships (e.g. friends who had ghosted, friends who did not celebrate your successes) were explored. When we met Becca for the first time, I gasped because I had a friend who also ghosted me and never explained why!
Loved this so much. 4.5 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment