Bingo square – HEART – about love
Love is never easy. Anyone who tells you otherwise is bullshitting you. Even good love, love that lasts, takes work. The same can be said for friendship. And your career. And just being alive generally right now. It is all hard. How to Fall of Love Madly by Jana Casale drops you right into the middle of the lives of three women that are working their shit out. It can be painful to watch. Like a car crash in slow motion. But you can’t look away.
One thing I loved about this book is that no one gets off the hook. Everyone is a fuck up in their own way, but they are mostly doing the best they can. The women are at least. The boyfriends are some serious duds, but maybe their stories are another book?
There is this window of time where you are in your late twenties and early thirties when you start to realize, oh, no one is going to fix things for me. I have to fix my own shit. This is what this book is about. That and all the weird thoughts that run through your head about how it is your family that fucked you up in the first place and why does your job suck so much and pay you so little and oh man you really thought when you were a kid that by thirty you would be in a much nicer place and why were you spending so much time with that one girl in college she was kinda the worst and dear god you really need to take a shower.
