Friendaholic: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER

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Friendaholic: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER

Friendaholic: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER

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Friendship, particularly from a woman's perspective, is a fascinating relationship dynamic and as many of us have, I've been through a journey as I get older on how I value or measure friendship. Her third, Paradise City was named one of the best novels of 2015 in the Observer and the Evening Standard, and was People magazine's Book of the Week. The cultural perception of what a best friend was, and how many one should have, varied across countries. My only real problem with this book (other than the fact that I didn’t think it was possible for a person to have THIS many friends), is the amount of tangents and metaphors packed into each chapter. Unfortunately, for me, the book is most interesting where it is least like a confessional and most like a scientific exploration of friendship.

But in adulthood she slowly realised that it was often to the detriment of her own boundaries and mental health. My preference is for once-a-month meet-ups with an option to consider a mini-break in Prague if things go well. Academic and scientific lines of reasoning are used in this book to provide a bit of starch to an otherwise completely subjective book. I saw myself in so much of this book and in some ways it helped me to both cherish what I have in my immediate three best friends (three! She suggests, not quite jokingly, that it might be a good idea to send potential friends the equivalent of a pre-nup before agreeing to a first coffee date.The book is an easy read about friendship and I think it's very much a book that will be appreciated more by women, I'm excited for some female friends to read it so I can hear their opinions about it. Then, when a global pandemic hit in 2020, she was one of many who were forced to reassess what friendship really meant to them – with the crisis came a dawning her truest friends were not always the ones she had been spending most time with.

Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict tells the story of one woman's journey to understand why she's addicted to friendship. An insight into Elizabeth Day’s experience of friendship, Friendaholic should be on every woman’s to read list.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I’ve already bought this for several people and recommended to others and all are finding it an insightful read.

I can sense that she will be routinely criticised for being a wealthy white women trying to explore her friendships in a first world country where she wants for very little. I can’t think of a better guide to opening up the discussion of all those relationships that, after all, massively outnumber our romantic and, for most of us, family connections. It was my best friend who, curiously unrelated to this gift, first introduced me to her thought-provoking podcast "How to Fail. Its first few chapters are its strongest, as Elizabeth Day recounts various friendships in her life (the childhood friend, the college friend, the frienemy, the date who turned into a friend). The discussions talk about the complications involved in being the only black friend to a white person etc and sadly its place in the book feels very much like the tokenism that Day and Sharmaine are trying to fight.In summary, you’ll end up wanting to be Elizabeth’s friend, but also being okay with the fact that that’s not going to happen. I loved how Day approach this concept, from her early years through to today, and how her friendships (and many of the readers - well certainly me! It means that you have less energy and time for the people you want to be with, the ones who deserve you. She is a bit hung up on current identity politics eg there’s some casual hatred dropped about ‘white men’ being to blame (all men, surely!

Friendaholic has given me clarity as to why those friendships had to end, and why the ones I have now are so meaningful. Nor does it reveal her astonishing, self-effacing honesty about her own shortcomings, past and present, in dealing with her relationships. Acabei por ler em português por estar incluído no Kobo Plus (e com a mesma capa linda, OBRIGADA PORTUGAL! We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts. It’s good to have this book in circulation but you feel the opportunity for a clear ‘mess to message’ manual is out there and will obscure this one.Would it be a bit depressing telling me I was a rubbish friend, or would it be an fascinating insight about how friendships work for other people? Elizabeth approaches everything she does with such thoughtfulness - I love her podcast and other books - and this is no exception. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). The title of the book is not, as it turns out, some clever publisher’s gimmick; rather, it’s a bald confession of Day’s own recovery from codependency, in which her own self-worth was defined by the opinions of others.



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