ardillybar reviewed Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
A treasure!
5 stars
This book reminded me of why I love female friendships.
Paperback, 384 pages
Published by Editorial Planeta.
Todo lo que sé sobre el amor
4 stars
(6 reviews)
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough.
Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women …
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough.
Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.
bestyja reviewed Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Review of 'Everything I Know About Love' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I don't want to lie and say I wasn't enjoying this book all the way through. Maybe it's the period of my life I read it or maybe D. Alderton is a great writer or most likely - both are true. I already recommended this book to a few of my friends and if the title caught your interest and you come back to wondering should I read this book or not, you probably should give it a try. At first I was a little embarrassed I was enjoying this book so much, but I am free from the shame now. I like what I like whether it's acclaimed or not.
More about the book: it's captivating, it's funny and witty. The main attribute that made me so stuck to the book is how blunt and honest it was. It is not a self help book and not a motivational …
I don't want to lie and say I wasn't enjoying this book all the way through. Maybe it's the period of my life I read it or maybe D. Alderton is a great writer or most likely - both are true. I already recommended this book to a few of my friends and if the title caught your interest and you come back to wondering should I read this book or not, you probably should give it a try. At first I was a little embarrassed I was enjoying this book so much, but I am free from the shame now. I like what I like whether it's acclaimed or not.
More about the book: it's captivating, it's funny and witty. The main attribute that made me so stuck to the book is how blunt and honest it was. It is not a self help book and not a motivational book, it's just one woman's coming of age story
martattack reviewed Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Review of 'Everything I Know About Love' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Was such a nice, light book to read after the intense dude that Milan Kundera is. Truly an easy read, nuthin fancy, British lady being funny and talking about her coming of age, basically.
I think I read it at the perfect moment. It resonated so much with me, and not because of her insights on love, but because of her insights on growing up. She captures so well the existential dread that comes with all of a sudden BEING an adult, something you had been preparing for it all your life, and all along you thought that by the time you'd BE an adult you'd be so much different and you'd have your shit together (when in fact, you don't). And being an adult is just... This. It's living every day, with every menial task. There's nothing to prepare for. Life is happening to me right now. This is …
Was such a nice, light book to read after the intense dude that Milan Kundera is. Truly an easy read, nuthin fancy, British lady being funny and talking about her coming of age, basically.
I think I read it at the perfect moment. It resonated so much with me, and not because of her insights on love, but because of her insights on growing up. She captures so well the existential dread that comes with all of a sudden BEING an adult, something you had been preparing for it all your life, and all along you thought that by the time you'd BE an adult you'd be so much different and you'd have your shit together (when in fact, you don't). And being an adult is just... This. It's living every day, with every menial task. There's nothing to prepare for. Life is happening to me right now. This is it, for the rest of my life.
This sounds depressing but honestly it's good to see that other people go through this. This kind of epiphany, where your lifelong expectations are met with reality. This is rough to go through but it allowed me to shift my perspective and continue at the best of my abilities.
This got quite personal didn't it?! I will copy paste the quote that got me so much:
"When you begin to wonder if life is really just waiting for buses on Tottenham Court Road and ordering books you'll never read off Amazon; in short, you're having an existential crisis. You are realizing the mundanity of life. You are finally understanding how little point there is to anything. You are moving out of the realm of fantasy 'when I grow up' and adjusting to the reality that you're there; it's happening. And it wasn't what you thought it might be. You are not who you thought you'd be."
