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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

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zilef's review against another edition

4.0

This was the best gift I had right after I had my baby. I had a real hard time getting back to reading (I mean anything other than baby/ parenting books). This was it! Real stories, real questions and quite damn good advice. Enjoyed it!

kendragaylelee's review against another edition

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5.0

If I tell you this book is my bible (and I am telling you that, as vulnerable as it feels), I need you to know that I will read Cheryl Strayed's words again and again like a sacred text. I read Tiny Beautiful Things every day for a few months. One letter a day. To savor it. To soak it in. To spend time aching and expanding with each tiny bit of truth unveiled. The next time I read it, I know it will mean something else to me, each of these pieces of wisdom hit different every time. But it will always be a holy experience for me. And there's not one bit of hyperbole in that statement. Trust & believe.

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ploopl's review

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

nike_1212's review against another edition

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5.0

Take a guess. Of course it’s obvious I cried more than once, and I think rightly so because some of those paragraphs hit home so close it’s scary. I was crying in cafes unexpectedly, over dinner, and once I was sat in a bus and suddenly without my control I started sobbing- the topic of the column: the loss of Sugars mom in her early 20s.
This book is so so so caring and thoughtful and loving and gives you a real tough love soft love tough love sandwich. I think nearly every issue that plagues me and some of my close friends- which are broadly ranging- has come up, and made me think like 1000 times about buying it for people around me. This book is radically empathic, and we should be too.
5/5.

klingman19's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

happylilkt's review against another edition

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I think Strayed is a gifted writer and that her perspective in these is so wise, honest, and generous, but her writing is so full of profanity... and I have so many other things on my list to read... overall I would consider picking this up again but I've just been sick of foul language lately (in the best of times I merely tolerate it) so I'm moving on.