How to Be Loved
A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship

How to be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship A rather uniquely written memoir about a woman who has a difficult time letting people get close. She finds herself an addicted alcoholic from trying to chill out and fit in, then later has to go to groups to get free of it. But it’s at the groups th......more

Someone walked into my heart and wrote my story for me to read! All the words that have been floating around in my subconscious found their existence in this book. I have hardly ever been so overwhelmed by a book, maybe because it held up a mirror to my life. Beautifully written and with such simpli......more

It was well written. But OMG, I'm not even sure she understands how unlikeable she was, and still is. While I feel for her because of her multiple illnesses, she comes across as just a horrible (to the point of sociopathic) woman. She seems to be saying she was so horrible before her illnesses becau......more

This book is about illness. The friendships in it are adjacent to the woman navigating her illness. My beef with this book is how it was marketed to be about meaningful friendships and it was more of a deep dive into the author’s insecurities and how she learned to let people help her. I imagine man......more

This author obviously writes well, but the book quickly dissolves into a self-absorbed tale of living in excess, choosing more excess, latching on to others when drowning without valuing them aside from what they give her, etc. This book makes me thankful for libraries.......more