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Ladataan... Everything I Know About Love: A MemoirTekijä: Dolly Alderton
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. as a lesbian, reading this book on dolly’s perception of love opened my eyes to understanding how heteronormative love is like, at least to her. i feel so excited to grow and change, and learn. so excited to deepen my friendships, and find those people that make me the happiest. i wonder if it will be the same or drastically different. i’ll find out eventually. favourite quotes: “You know, the life isn’t happening elsewhere, it doesn’t exist in another realm. Your relationship with that man was seven years long. That was it, that’s what it was.” - 263 — “ “You’re too hard on yourself”, she said. “You can do long-term love you’ve done it better than anyone I know.” “How my longest relationship was two years and that was over when I was 24.” “I’m talking about you and me, she said.” - 301 — “I don’t need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That’s not where I come alive. Because I am enough. My heart is enough. The stories and the sentences twisting around my mind enough.” - 305 This is Dolly's memoir of her life from her teen years through age 30. It started slow and whiny. I wanted to throw it against the wall but since I won it through the Goodreads Giveaway I felt obligated to finish it and give it a fair and honest review. It got better as she grew up and stopped using one-night stands and drink as crutches and started working and being an adult. She had some good things to say about growing up and some of it was funny. I could see some of it but it was a long time ago that I was that age and I did not use sex and alcohol to try to make me feel better. I think she began growing up when Florence, her friend's sister, started having problems. Florence's story was good. I loved the few letters about friends milestone events--engagement, marriage, birth. They were so snarky they were funny. This ends on a high note. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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HTML: New York Times Bestseller Everything I Know About Love now streaming on Peacock! "There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it." ??Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women "Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these pages. It's a beautifully told journey and a thoughtful, important book. I loved it." ??Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls 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 un Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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On the other hand, this book just DRIPS with privilege and heteronormativity. Alderton is a 30-something woman who is largely reflecting on her teens and 20s, which were filled with drinking, partying, careless spending, European holidays, working jobs that allow an unusual level of creative freedom, etc. and this results in a book that is, on manyyy levels, just not relatable whatsoever. At times she genuinely sounds like a caricature of a British party woman that might pop up on an SNL skit or an episode of "Skins". She describes so many drunken nights that they begin to blur together, and each consecutive one offers less than the one before, which made me want to start skipping chapters.
This book was also just extremely hetero. Even when Alderton is emphasizing female friendship and not changing yourself for any man, there is a steady and constant undercurrent that runs through the entire work that still places romance with a man as highly desirable and finding a partner, even if it happens later in life, still needs to happen at some point. It just seems so antithetical to everything she comes to conclusions about time and time again, and by the end of the book the conclusion sort of peters out to this weird agreement of "Yes, love yourself and cherish your female friendships because they're the most precious love you will have, oh and also you will get a boyfriend one day who will love you even if you're silly and don't shave and have a wild past!"
All in all, there are some really heartfelt and valuable writing in "Everything I Know About Love", but it's a little like mining: you're gonna have to dig and pick through some rubble to get to the shiny bits (I actually don't know how mining works, so just picture the mining scene in "Snow White"). I'm curious to maybe read Alderton's latest work and see how her writing and voice have developed since this book came out. ( )