How to Fall Out of Love Madly: A Novel

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I kinda didn’t care about Theo despite the synopsis making it look like he’d be a bigger deal. Joy simped for him so hard and he wasn’t worth shit. It made me cringe at some points but it was a good read. Things like that made them all feel like real people. Unfortunately, even if a couple takes these steps, it's impossible to know whether the love you once felt will be rekindled. Still, if it's a relationship you cherish and want to salvage, it's worth a try. We're also supposed to feel like the low self-esteem all three of the women are dealing with is a feminist issue. Joy, at one point, considers quitting her job because she feels like she needs to care for her male roommate who, you guessed it, she's in love with. She's known for being a pioneer in the thriller genre. But when Gillian Flynn stopped by TODAY on Feb. 9, she traded in mysteries for a different kind of thrill: Love stories.

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They took a picture of the empty guest room, soon to be the home of a stranger, and posted it alongside the description. But not more than three months into the lease, both women became frustrated by their monthly expenses: the landlord had gone up a hundred dollars in rent, the heat was costing them a fortune—in the end they decided the smartest thing for them would be to rent out the third bedroom. Women struggling with life in their late twenties to early thirties is my new favourite genre. While it does often hit too close to home, there’s always something comforting in knowing that I’m not alone. Knowing that my experiences in life can happen to other people and that we all react in different ways and we’re just straight up not having a good time.People could tell you whatever politically correct garbage they wanted to, but youth meant something in this world and it especially meant something for a woman. What would life be to leave sexiness behind? To no longer be the age that mattered? Movies were about young people. Songs were about young people. Sex was about young people. All of it was slipping away. She’d been blindsided by this feeling. In her twenties, she never gave aging a thought, but now that she was thirty, she had a hard time placing herself.”

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I want to believe that in my friend are the same things that are inside of me, and maybe whatever those conjoined twins have is what we´re all searching for. Maybe we´re all just separated before birth from the realest love we´ll ever known.” After a slow start, the developing characters and relationships grabbed my attention. Even though the main characters are half my age, I could relate to the mistakes they made, the wins, the hard realities, and the realization that they are OK. The problem I had with this book is that it just takes so long for Annie and Joy to start making good choices. I understand their bad choices but I just kept cringing for them. I think this has more to do with me being (thankfully) several years out from these kinds of bad choices, but I just wanted to take these two girls aside and give them some good advice. Friendships are a good thing to explore in this instance. You may find that while you were in love you let certain friendships lag that you really don't want to lose. This is a great time to try to repair them. This is going to be the darling of millennial reads this year and trust me, you will not be disappointed. If you are a fan of Sally Rooney, Brandon Taylor’s REAL LIFE, MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION and SORROW AND BLISS you are going to absolutely enjoy this beautifully, well done debut novel.

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I inhaled this book, it’s exactly the type of contemporary writing that I love. If you’ve heard of this novel, I’m sure you’ve seen it compared to the works of Sally Rooney. The comparisons to Rooney come from a well-intentioned place, but they’re only partially right. Both of the authors are brilliant, and Jana Casale writes with a similar honesty and perceptiveness that Rooney is known for. Casale’s characters are a bit more touchable, though. This is not a dig at Sally Rooney, because she’s one of my favorite authors, but I felt like Casale’s character could be some of my own friends. Though she writes with that realistic worldview that can veer into the melancholy––if only for being frankly honest–– I still found that her writing had a more hopeful tone to it altogether. Three woman who join together to rent a large space along the beach in Los Angeles for their stores—a gift shop, a bakery, and a bookstore—become fast friends as they each experience the highs, and lows, of love. For many people falling out of a very intense love, it may take several years before you are able to be close friends again. You may find that you have to wait until both of you are in love with someone else and in committed relationships before you are comfortable being friends again. Men have probably kept us from coming up with a word that would describe that feeling you feel when a man does something like that to you.”