How to Fall Out of Love Madly: A Novel

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. She made me think of the times when someone has said something little about my appearance or personality that have stuck with me forever; the half-truths and lies told that you’re only too willing to believe. Brought nothing original to the table on any of the topics it covered, sentences were badly written, characters who had zero self worth at the beginning gained zero self worth throughout the course of the story… why?

This book surrounds 3 women whose lives are oppressed by the men in them - from shitty boyfriends to sleazy bosses. We learn about Kate’s possibly stalling career and Leo’s plan to apply to acting schools against his mother’s wishes.

This book is funny and heartfelt--readers will root for all three of these women as they shake themselves off and start asking what might actually make them happy. Annie is baffled by Joy's senseless devotion to Theo, but she's consumed by her own obsessions: she can't stop parsing her commitment-phobic boyfriend's texts in an exhausting mission to maintain his approval. I would love to tell you that it doesn’t define how I think of myself, but those are just words and they’re not making me feel what it is I want to feel and what it is that I want to feel is thinner.

Perceptive, mordantly funny, and full of heart, How to Fall Out of Love Madly tells the story of three women who believe in equality yet inexplicably tolerate terrible behavior from men, equating being desired with worth. It made Joy feel like Annie was just throwing everything away, or more accurately clearing it away like you would a dirty glass or a fogged windowpane. Cash-strapped Joy and Annie decide to rent their apartment's extra bedroom to charming, older Theo, and Joy and Theo get kind of snuggly close when Annie then decides to move in with her boyfriend. Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirty-something lives aren't exactly what they'd imagined. 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.

If you feel bad at all let me know because there are other options that might help just as much,” she’d say, but Joy was fine and felt better. I started out liking the book, then it lulled for a long time and I almost gave up on it multiple times. In her twenties, she never gave aging a thought, but now that she was thirty, she had a hard time placing herself. With wit, brains, and empathy, Jana Casale throws open the curtain on the inner lives of three young women and illuminates their pain and beauty.

Perceptive, mordantly funny, and full of heart, How to Fall Out of Love Madly examines women's many relationships--with one another, their mothers, their work, men, and themselves--to reveal their underlying power and complexity. Jana Casale so intimately captures how these smart, capable characters talk themselves into living lives that they don't enjoy. We meet three women, one who is average sized (but still probably on the thinner side), one skinny, and one drop-dead gorgeous Instagram model type and they all hate themselves. While the characters are relatable, I longed for more profound development and a stronger connection to their journeys. Each character has ONE chapter at the end of the book, ONLY ONE where they have any semblance of a spine in their own relationships, and even those chapters make concessions to their self worth and their ability to be happy outside of a relationship.Meanwhile, Theo's girlfriend Celine has been told all her life she is stunning but doesn’t really believe it.