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Tiny Beautiful Things

By: Cheryl Strayed
Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed,Steve Almond (Intro)
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Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills. And it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar - the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the best-selling memoir Wild - is the person thousands turn to for advice. Tiny Beautiful Things gathers the best of "Dear Sugar" in one place and includes never-before-published columns and a new introduction by Steve Almond. Rich with humor, insight, compassion - and absolute honesty - this book is a balm for everything life throws our way.

©2013 Cheryl Strayed (P)2013 Audible Ltd

Critic Reviews

"A realistic and poignant compilation of the intricacies of relationships." ( Kirkus Reviews)
"These pieces are nothing short of dynamite, the kind of remarkable, revelatory storytelling that makes young people want to become writers in the first place. Over here at the Salon offices, we're reading the columns with boxes of tissue and raised fists of solidarity, shaking our heads with awe and amusement." (Sarah Hepola, Salon)
"Charming, idiosyncratic, luminous, profane.... [Sugar] is remaking a genre that has existed, in more or less the same form, since well before Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts first put a face on the figure in 1933.... Her version of tough love ranges from hip-older-sister-loving to governess-stern. Sugar shines out amid the sea of fakeness." ( The New Republic)

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Very sweet, very sweet, very sweet.

I read this as I entered into my 30th year on this Earth. I’d just broken up with my partner of 2 1/2 years, Moved back in with my parents, with no money and a head full of lead. Your book, Sugar, was my salve. This potion of people, who generously and bravely contributed their anecdotes and your honest, sage advice answered questions I didn’t even know I had. It’s like therapy but personable. I feel like you’re right in the room with me. Thank you for your radical acceptance, it’s refreshing.

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practical wisdom and insights

This was just a stunning read - I am an experienced social worker of 25 years and I just so enjoyed the reality checks, practical wisdom and insights offered by Ms Strayed. The way she responds to readers is that unique and finely balanced approach of not being patronising or avoiding the issues but addressing it in a way which shares insights and skills with the broader audience.

this tiny beautiful book has many gems to offer those open to receiving them - I recommend this wholeheartedly.

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Heartbreakingly brilliant.

If there ever existed a guidebook to life, love, death and all the mess and beauty in between. This is it.

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Life Changing

This book has touched me in a place I never knew existed.
A must read for anyone, of any age or gender

I feel changed

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it’s like a loving friend

This book filled my heart and lightened my soul. Sugar’s advice is well written and real. I have listened to this book multiple times, especially when I am feeling lost in a cold busy world.

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Lovely listen

This was a nice listen - some deep storyline’s and a few light hearted ones. The narration was really good - nothing worse than good books read by horrible voices ! This narrator had super clear pronounciations and lovely tone

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Advice you didn't know you needed

I've never heard of the Dear Sugar advice column but it seems to have been popular and I can see why. This is a collection of letters written to and answered by Sugar (aka Cheryl Strayed - author of Wild which is also now a movie). Sugar has a beautiful way with words. Her advice seems sensible but it's the pieces of herself and her life woven into the answering letters that make it as touching as it is. There are some heartbreaking letters with some heartbreaking answers. There's wit, wisdom and wildness but there's also tragedy, tenderness and thought provoking issues/stories/answers. There are snippets in these letters that I know will pop up from time to time because so many of these are everyday things, everyday problems, everyday people trying desperately to do what's right, trying to find the best solution. Sugar does an amazing job at helping them whilst also giving the reader plenty to ponder about themselves.

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Stunning

Why did this end! Loved every single word and cannot wait to listen again. Beautiful

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Most wonderful letters & sugar is just perfect

Loved the series had to read the book! Cheryl strayed is a wonderful writer just so honed into true tiny beautiful things that really do matter at the time then don’t do much as we move through life xxx

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O.K

There is some genuine wisdom and good advice in here, but you have to be able to take a LOT of the advice seekers being addressed as "sweet pea" "darlin" and "sugar".
Maybe easier if you're from the American south but for the rest of us, can come across as quite patronising, grating and cringey.

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