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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 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. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Tan salvajemente divertido y conmovedor como la vida de cualquier veinteañero que crece navegando entre desengaños amorosos y relaciones desastrosas. La periodista Dolly Alderton se propuso dar cuenta de sus locos veinte años en este divertido libro trufado de amores y desamores, relaciones intensas por Messenger que fracasan en el cara a cara, trabajos precarios y amigos que siempre están ahí. Un novio que acaba saliendo del armario, borracheras que te llevan a cruzar el país en taxis que no puedes pagar, chicos sin redes sociales que se creen Sartre..., escenas todas ellas de nuestra lucha por entender que el amor más intenso e importante es el que sentimos por nuestros amigos y nosotros mismos. «Casi todo lo que sé sobre el amor lo he aprendido charlando con mis amigas de toda la vida. He aprendido que el amor es júbilo desenfrenado, bailar borracha sobre el fango de un festival de música, los cruces de miradas en un autobús nocturno, los polvos de una noche. Pero también he aprendido que el amor no son las relaciones tediosas, ni las horas de obsesivo seguimiento en Instagram al chico que te gusta, ni los orgasmos fingidos.» «No quería que acabara nunca», Marian Keyes N.º1 en Reino Unido. Un millón de ejemplares vendidos. La Bridget Jones de la era millennial. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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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. ( )