Honestly, nothing really happens in this book and it was quite boring. The characters were also very unlikeable, and while some people may enjoy that about this book, I didn't. I like to read books in which I can relate to the characters at least in some way, but I just couldn't with this one. I wish that it had been written better, because the overall premise could have been executed so well.

his novel had some good writing, but it was difficult for me to identify with twenty-somethings who spend their lives on their phones tweeting and Facebooking and snapchatting, living for "likes" and comments. Also, the characters ad been communications majors, and yet all of them in dialogue abuse the words "like" and "literally" and end sentences that should be statements with question marks. Example: "But like, then I was like, Why do you want to know! And he was like, Well what if I moved in? Kind of like a joke? But then we actually talked about it more and he was like . . ."

Elinor and her boyfriend Mike are trying to get their careers in journalism going in New York City in an era when most magazines and newspapers are dying. Elinor consistently says she's a feminist, but has almost no self-esteem when it comes to Mike or her new career trying to write things that go viral for a website that doesn't actually make money.

I'm also a feminist and many of my friends are, but never in my life have I had a conversation that goes something like, "That was not very faminist of you. What I did was feminist." "That was not feminist of you!" Is that how twenty-something feminists actually talk?

Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to review this novel.

Meh, just meh. There was something about the way this novel was written that hasn’t yet translated to the ebook reading. It seemed like there was random inserts of speaking from an outside narrator, but I don’t seem to remember a narrator ever really being introduced. The speaker also only appeared a handful of times.

Sociable was an interesting commentary on how the younger generation is so involved in their phones and random news sites like Buzzfeed (and others) which share funny videos, quizzes and lists. But Harrington missed the mark due to the characters incessant whining and complaining. Elinor (the main character) doesn’t seem to have any redeeming qualities and you wait the entire novel to see if she grows up (even just a little bit).

Elinor, a communications major finally gets a job in journalism with an online blogging company. She has broken up with her boyfriend of four years and finds herself in a one-room walk-up apartment in New York. She is an unhappy quarrelsome person who seems to find fault with everything, her job, her co-workers and her best friend.

Tried to power through this for a few times, but I wasn't into the writing style, the POV used, the character development (if there was any? The characters sounded a little too obnoxious and immature for what they were posing to be). Made it almost halfway through the book but because I felt like I was already forcing myself to finish it, I decided to ~give up. I would have enjoyed this because journalists and social media and finding one's self, etc. but all in all, this book and I were not fit for each other.

Utterly delightful in every sense of the world. Be prepared to be swept up in this story and these characters.

Quick read that seemed not to go anywhere. The characters JP and Peter were left dangling and could have been an interesting storyline.

This one is a little difficult to review. It was an okay read. It was quick and entertaining, but something just felt off. It might have been the writing style that I couldn't really get into, or maybe the character of Elinor who at times just came off as unlikable. I related to the break - up though. I also did laugh a couple of times. Overall though, it wasn't really my cup of hot chocolate, but maybe it's someone else's cup of tea.

Thank you to NetGalley for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I like reading about unlikeable characters and uncomfortable situations, these are some of the elements present in this novel and one of the reasons I really enjoyed it.

Elinor Tomlinson is a young journalist struggling to find a job in her field. She lives with her boyfriend in NY and works as a babysitter. One day, she returns home only to find out that the boyfriend of four years wants to break up with her, she is completely shocked and has no other option but to agree.

At the same time, she has recently started working on journalism.ly, a news website and is trying to perform well on her new job while coping with the sadness of the breakup.

It is hard to define the point of view of the narrator, at some points is Elinor, at other points J.W. (Elinor's boss) and at other times is an unknown narrator. At the beginning it confused me but at the end I had gotten used to it and did not distract me from the story.

The main characters work on startup companies where social media plays a relevant role. The novel not only describes Elinor's emotional journey after her breakup but also the current state of journalism, online dating, millennials' relationship to work, and female friendship.

Overall, I enjoyed this novel and recommend it to lovers of contemporary fiction and/or new adult. It reminded me of to the novel Startup by Doree Shafrir.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this publication in exchange for an honest review.

I wanted to like this book so much but just didn't. The biggest issue is that the main character is so unlikable and clueless She made me cringe so hard throughout the whole book. This was a disappointment for me.

At first I thought how can there be a book devoted to one young woman, her boyfriend, their breakup, their momentary jobs on social media and the potential of reconciliation without them ever speaking. Then I realized that's exactly how my twenty-something daughter and all her friends, regardless of genders, communicate with each other. Even the rare dialogue sounded so familiar. And, may I note, the young adults of who / whom ugh, refer, are well educated, college graduates. Obviously smarter than me. This is just the
World now, sometimes. Not everywhere, not all the time, but whenever they feel like it. "They," those damn millennials; sigh; and I have two I happen to love. Decent book, check it out.

I don't understand why the hatred towards this book: it's shallow because these are the characters acting in it. This is the youth of the 21st century. I think I can be a bit harsh with the characters of this novel because I, too, am a 20 something living in a world of hastag everying, LOL when you have a straight face, constant social media checking, the desire to appear deep and profound, but in reality being too shallow for our own good.

"Funny" is not the word I'd use to describe this book. Sure, there were some moments. However, what sums up this book is cringy. The focus on appearance, the failure to be of any substance, the obsession with one fix idea one has - it's too much at times. And yet, I couldn't blame the author; this is who the young people are nowadays, in larger and larger numbers.

I liked how the author at times addressed the reader directly. I wish she had done that more often. At some points it felt as if she kept the distance, and only sometimes came closer to the reader again. Those ocassions were when one of the characters (usually the main character, Elinor) did something worse than before.

I didn't like any of the characters. Elinor lacked any tact and individuality. She is dependant and seemed to like to dwell in self-pity (she has a bad day every time we see her doing something, anything) and conformity, she is fake and selfish. She is like a child who expects a gold star for doing something that's expected of them; except she's an adult. Her ex-boyfriend, Mike, is beyond what words could describe: annoying, self-sufficient, self-absorbed. Mainly all the characters exist to benefit from the others, to gain something from their large network. The characters manage to drive you nuts!

It left a bitter taste this novel. It's an easy read, lacking substance as far as depth of character goes, but maybe this was the point - to show the shallowness which we as a world are heading towards. Despite the light tone, it's sad. I am sure anyone over 35 years old would not like this novel, and those younger would still need tolerance for it. Silly me actually thought there'd be a redeeming moment for Elinor. Nothing though. Nothing can redeem the world this novel shows.

I'm a little sad for the time that I took time to read this book. I only managed to garner a meager sense of sympathy for the main character, whose boyfriend (later ex) was an even worse person. Yet I couldn't stop reading. I think I was eager for something of more substance to occur. I feel like this book could be boiled down to things happening to bad people in New York City. (It's always New York City.)

This book follows a millennial in her early adulthood in Brooklyn. The blurbs indicated that this was a sarcastic and funny look at young adulthood. However, It didn’t read as particularly humorous to me. The writing had a strange feel to me as well. Awkward phrasing and verb choice and unlikeable characters made this one that I didn’t finish.

I really wanted to like Sociable by Rebbecca Harrington, perhaps I'm getting to old, but this book didn't appeal to me like I thought it would.

Navigating NYC as a recent graduate while searching for your first job within your career (and that doesn't include being a nanny) and a decent apartment in this day and age is certainly not an easy feat. I must give Elinor, the main character, credit because she is able to do all of this on her own without reaching out to her parents for help. That is a huge difference between the current 20-somethings I know and love and for that reason, Elinor is a decent role model.

When looking on Amazon for a description of this book, I noted that it is listed under Humor and Satire. I suppose that is important to note because it doesn't come across extremely well while reading it. Even though I knew what the story was about, I couldn't help but get extremely frustrated by the dialogue and inner monologue. Is this really how millennials think? I know that this does mimic normalcy in conversations but definitely with an added exaggeration. I think, I hope.

As much as I was frustrated with this writing style, I did however finish the whole book. Did I like it? Not entirely. But I do appreciate what the author was trying to portray. Maybe it is just meant for a different genre to read.

I found Sociable to be a similar reading experience to Peneleope, Harrington's debut. Which is to say, the potentially interesting details of the plot are bogged down by questionable writing habits, such as a refusal to use contractions, award beyond awkward dialogue, broad archetypal characters, a passive and mopey heroine with little to say about her situation, and the overuse of certain words to the extent that you can only assume it's intentional for some reason. It really does take away from the reading experience. It took a couple of chapters in Penelope for these to really start grating, but in Sociable it started right away. Some may enjoy but I couldn't recommend.

Who doesn’t love a hilarious story about a self-unaware Millennial trying to ‘make it’ in the big city? Elinor, a twenty-something-year-old graduate, has finally said goodbye to being a nanny and landed a journalistic job at a start-up. She gets to drink bad coffee, write quick pieces and make sense of her life. However, writing viral content isn’t the job she dreamed of and her personal life soon spins out of control. The measured, cool and collected person she’s trying to portray on the social media is… well, not really her. Surprise, surprise anyone?

Once I’ve started reading the novel, honestly, I couldn’t put it down. I finished it over the weekend. There’s something mesmerizing about self-centered characters — you laugh with them and often at them. Everything rings, oh, so close to the reality that it makes you think between the crisp lines. Kind of funny, kind of sad, but also very true. Start-ups and websites, Instagram and Twitter, hashtags and filters. We all want to be the bigger, better person, but are we really? And why do we care what version of us we are curating to the world?

Rebecca Harrington offers a charmingly sympathetic and satirical look at Elinor and her endeavors in the working world, unhealthy romantic relationships and worrisome friendships or simply 21st century adulthood. The writing is flowing down the pages in such a perceptible and sharp manner that carries you to the next sentence with ease and talent. At the end you just can’t close the book without a laugh escaping your lips.

It’s contemporary fiction that knows what it’s doing and it’s not making excuses. Highly recommended… unless you tend to take yourself a bit too seriously.

I have kindly received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley and Doubleday Books in exchange of a fair review.

I really wanted to like this book after one of my favorite authors recommended it, but I couldn't make it the whole way through-- which is super unusual for me. Everyone was just so unlikable. And the writing felt stilted, I just couldn't get into the flow.

I received this book as an ARC from Netgalley in return for an honest review. (My first - thanks!)

I had so many confusing emotions about this book. I am not sure if this is because I was unclear on the aim of the book. Was it satire? Was it serious? Was it both? I feel like it was both.

I saw a lot of myself and friends in parts of the characters. But, at other times it did feel a little bit overdone. The main character reminded me a lot of Shoshanna from Girls - Her character was great in the show but it would have been overkill if all of the characters were like her. This is what I felt in this book. However, I️ still enjoyed it because of my love for nyc and the mirroring of many aspects of the millennial lifestyle. Social media has completely overrun our lives and we have a tendency to care too much about ourselves, leading us to be self centered and rude to others. Maybe my dislike stemmed from some of the novel hitting too close to home. Is it possible I am that self-absorbed and short sighted?

In the end this was a smooth and easy read that was overall very fun loving.