Win How Could She Expressed By Lauren Mechling Presented In Ebook

summer read. Friends who are navigating their changing relationships in the publishing/art world,

Recommended for readers who like novels that explore friendships between women, who like New York stories, fans of the TV show Girls this would probably annoy me as an author, but I kept getting wisps of Hannah and Marnie.
So I finally finished this book and OMG,

Things happen but its so interesting to truly look at what lies beneath the surface of a friendship, This is some of the best character development that I have ever seen, The novel centers around three women in media in various stages of their lives, though about the same age, their careers, and loves have taken them to different places.
This is the story of what happened when they find themselves in the same city for the first time in a while.


The novel starts out with a letter from Sunny, The woman who can be hailed a success from the outside, with her husband and art career, Geraldine is still in Toronto, nursing old wounds from a fiance who left her or rather made her leave him through his inaction.
She is subletting Sunnys place and this is the first hint that we get that the relationship, once equal, is now quite skewed.
Rachel lives in New York City with her scientist husband and their twoyearold child, Cleo, She writes young adult fiction and still works for the same magazine that employs Sunny,

As you read on, you start to see the cracks in their seemingly perfect lives,

Nick, Sunnys husband feels as though he is mostly for show and doesnt care for her friends, accuses her of being unfriendly toward his sister and makes her take care of his daughter, Agnes, on the weekends he is granted visitation.


Rachels finances are in the crapper and the magazine is going under and she is trying so desperately to stay relevant in an everchanging media circus.
Her husband is offered a job back in Toronto but Rachel sees New York City as the promised land even though it has done nothing for her except make her feel utterly unexceptional.


Geraldine comes to New York and tries to make her own way, as she is starting to realize that her friends are not really trying to help her get back on her feet.
They meet conspiratorially behind her back, keeping some big secret that comes out at the end of the book,

Sunny and Rachel pity Geraldine for not making it out of Toronto sooner, for being dumped, for now having a burgeoning career but for all their pity, they dont really want to help her.
They saw what the breakup did to her and Peter, after the death of his mother, is sniffing around again, They want to protect her from backsliding into his arms, They vastly underestimate their friend,

No matter how hard they try, they just cant seem to happy for their friend, Downplaying her ideas, even going so far as to steal them for a meeting pitch, It ultimately goes nowhere but that really solidified to me that even though the novel was about friendship, it was also about frenemies and envy and society and FOMO and what it really means to be loyal.


As for the writing, holy

biscuits, I annotated this book because I found myself itching to underline so many beautifully written passages, There is something wonderfully calculating with every choice of word, I had my MerriamWebster handy because I was constantly looking up certain words, I felt like I learned so much and I found a golden nugget on every page, I learned so much about these women, So complex and wellrounded and I just wanted to know more about what happens to them because Mechling made me care.


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Bleh. This is the story offriends Geraldine, Rachel, and Sunny in their earlys whose various friendships are tested over the course of a year of life in NYC.
Unfortunately, allare superficial, selfobsessed, uninteresting, and ultimatelydmensional and thinlywritten characters, so there's literally nothing to care about here,

The theme of female friendship has been better treated in countless other books, but for some reason this book got a lot of prepublication buzz and received good reviews early on.
I can't for the life of me figure out why! The writing was uneven some passages were briefly interesting and tightly paced, and then others were so clunky with such bad similes that they were the only times I laughed during this dull read.
Oh, let's not forget the weirdly detailed descriptions of life in Toronto thewomen meet while living there and comparisons of that city to randomly chosen Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhoods.
I'd hoped this would be a light, funny, carefree read, but in the end it was essentially a complete waste of time.
It's been a long time since I've read a book that I was as disappointed by as this one, and I'm not entirely sure how something like this got published.
. . I ate this novel up and didn't want it to end, It's a comedy of manners/ social satire about friendship and also about the absurdity/perils of making art in the age of influence.
How Could She has that rare combination of a generous heart an enviably cool eye, and it's hilarious to boot, I put it alongside my Edith Wharton, Evelyn Waugh and Mary McCarthy one of my favorite novels in a very long while.
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A contemporary novel about three women navigating their lives through their friendships, careers and the complexities of each of their relationships.


From the start, I had difficulty connecting with this book, The principal characters Geraldine, Sunny and Rachel were all somewhat interchangeable, leaving me unable to really become vested in any of their lives.


Not sure if it was the book or just not a good fit for me,
There are some great reviews out there, so if this ones on your radar I hope you enjoy,

Thank you to Goodreads Giveaways, Penguin Publishing GroupViking and Lauren Mechling for an ARC to read and review, What a complete waste of my time, Who pulled the collective shade over the entire publishing world to think that this is a good book This is the literary equivalent of a Ed Sheeran video the same thing over and over again with a hint of butter.
Buuuutturrrr.

No, really. Who read this and thought it was good Is it because Lauren Mechling has been a columnist for renown publications for years Is she the Sunny character WAIT.
Errmegawd. She is probably all three characters, Right Like, SO GROUNDBREAKING. I just vomited. I work in and around publishing, and I know who she is talking about, And this book is still not funny,

What I find downright offensive is that this is categorized anywhere near satire, What Mechling has written is an elongated, cheap parody of her Vogue column, Yes, parody can be considered a form of satire, but again Ed Sheeran has GRAMMY awards, Plural. How did that happen

Publishing gives the same awards for naval gazing, and their embrace of this book would be a great pinnacle.
Biggest takeaway: Mechling and company have spent way too much time with petty, passive aggressive, pretentious assholes in their lives, So they think making fun of them is fun Maybe in a short story Cause this book gets old, It's not funny. I don't care enough about these characters to think the situations they are in are interesting enough to be funny,

So if you actually have healthy adult relationships with women, men, and people who don't happen to be white and rich, bypass this book.
Want something similar: I recommend Luckiest Girl Alive You get the same basic character in one! AND you get a plot!

BUTTTTTTTTURRRR, Natalia.
This book was like sex and the city, but better, And you can't beat sex and the city,

How could she is a coming age book about three friends that are all going through challenges in their life with each one hanging on just barely at times.
I found Geraldine and Rachel to be the most likeable characters because their storyline were so relatable, Geraldine with her breakup, and again trying to find her footing and Rachel a struggling writer trying adjust to motherhood, Those themes alone are immensely relatable to all coming of age women and new moms alike,

Reading this book you see yourself and your friends in these women, The friendship theme makes it a great book to reach a really big audience because as women, our friendships are such a core part of our lives.


You are sure to identify with one of these ladies,

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for this ARC, Female friendship, reality and women power are the topics written so perfectly in HOW COULD SHE by Lauren Mechling, I enjoyed every page of this incredible book, the well crafted stories were really compelling to read! The three main characters Geraldine, Rachel and Sunny are young women trying to put together the hard pieces of life! All the struggles and complicated drama were so thrilling to read!
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The book is funny and really interesting going to the end, all the unexpected things left me shocked! I love the idea that Mechling presented at the book how all the decisions were so fascinating and mindful!
I hate books writing about young girls and doing the lowest dumbest mistakes that none could do! So that's a huge plus to read this wonderful book!
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The background is set in Toronto amp NYC, and the book is focused in these three women's life! Thr structure of the book was slow paced but the details were fantastic! Also the friendship relationship was something unique to read, so in these hot Summer days we highly recommend you to read this incredible book! This is our first book read by Mechling but for sure won't be the last! I reread the firstchaptersnights in a row, because whenever I picked the book back up, I couldnt remember what was going on or who these people were.
I thought this was due to being especially tired, but it turns out the characters just were not at all memorable.
I kept reading, waiting for the point where there would be some redemption for any character, but it never arrived, Its a book about horribly self centered people, and their shallow, competitive “friendships”, I hope no one actually spends their time and energy on people like Rachel, Sunny or Geraldine, The plot goes exactly where you guess it will, It doesnt get better.

Sure wish I remembered who or where this book was recommended so I could make sure to never read another recommendation of theirs again.
If I wasnt behind on my reading goal I would have quit this book, But I need to inflate my numbers, so here I am, .