..by Lauren Weisberger
Amazing novel. Really enjoyed reading it. Its a story of a young graduate Andrea who wants to be a writer in "The New Yorker" but to start with her career, joins as an assistant to the editor in chief of a fashion magazine "The Runway". As was impressed upon her one year as assistant to Miranda could lead her to any promotion within the same magazine or any other magazine as Miranda was quite influential. So she starts with quite a zeal with her new job but soon realizes its gonna be a tough year ahead cuz Miranda is an extremely tough boss to work with.
So the story goes on with how trivial her boss's demands would be at times & how difficult it would get for Andrea to manage. And eventually the job takes up so much of Andrea's time that she is unable to meet her parents regularly or make up with any other personal commitments. Her boyfriend seems quite understanding initially but then he too starts loosing his patience with her. So she keeps feeling guilty at times but then she feels its just a matter of one year & after a year, all will fall into place.
Towards the end finally Miranda gives her a task which is just impossible to do & at a time when Andrea is already struggling with the pang of guilt that she should be besides her best friend who has just met with an accident. So her patience snaps & she quits there and then even though she was just a month away from her promotion & flies back to her parents & friend.
So then she manages to make up for lost time. Her relations with parents & her best friend becomes good again. She even manages to get a job again [this time as a writer]. Now the only thing I didn't like in this story was the way her boyfriend behaves towards the end. The story is narrated in first person by Andrea & from whatever she had told her boyfriend was quite understanding & they had a stable relationship. They started having misunderstandings cuz of all this but then towards the end when Andrea was apologising & wanted them to take another chance at their relationship, this guy didn't reconcile at all. This I found very unreasonable of him.
The book is quite funny the way she writes, the feelings that are going inside her mind & the words she actually speaks. Its quite impressive how she doesn't whine & does everything with good spirit even though she realizes her job isn't at all intellectual. She really wants to do as much she can for her career!
And even though Miranda is the "devil" in this book I kinda liked her. She definitely is very demanding & perfectionist, doesn't know what it means to be polite & makes life hell for her subordinates. But still all this arrogance is because of the success she has achieved. She has struggled on her own to reach such heights & so she knows the meaning of struggle & hard work. She does reward hard work but is very demanding in the course. I liked her but I wouldn't want a boss like her :D
Amazing novel. Really enjoyed reading it. Its a story of a young graduate Andrea who wants to be a writer in "The New Yorker" but to start with her career, joins as an assistant to the editor in chief of a fashion magazine "The Runway". As was impressed upon her one year as assistant to Miranda could lead her to any promotion within the same magazine or any other magazine as Miranda was quite influential. So she starts with quite a zeal with her new job but soon realizes its gonna be a tough year ahead cuz Miranda is an extremely tough boss to work with.
So the story goes on with how trivial her boss's demands would be at times & how difficult it would get for Andrea to manage. And eventually the job takes up so much of Andrea's time that she is unable to meet her parents regularly or make up with any other personal commitments. Her boyfriend seems quite understanding initially but then he too starts loosing his patience with her. So she keeps feeling guilty at times but then she feels its just a matter of one year & after a year, all will fall into place.
Towards the end finally Miranda gives her a task which is just impossible to do & at a time when Andrea is already struggling with the pang of guilt that she should be besides her best friend who has just met with an accident. So her patience snaps & she quits there and then even though she was just a month away from her promotion & flies back to her parents & friend.
So then she manages to make up for lost time. Her relations with parents & her best friend becomes good again. She even manages to get a job again [this time as a writer]. Now the only thing I didn't like in this story was the way her boyfriend behaves towards the end. The story is narrated in first person by Andrea & from whatever she had told her boyfriend was quite understanding & they had a stable relationship. They started having misunderstandings cuz of all this but then towards the end when Andrea was apologising & wanted them to take another chance at their relationship, this guy didn't reconcile at all. This I found very unreasonable of him.
The book is quite funny the way she writes, the feelings that are going inside her mind & the words she actually speaks. Its quite impressive how she doesn't whine & does everything with good spirit even though she realizes her job isn't at all intellectual. She really wants to do as much she can for her career!
And even though Miranda is the "devil" in this book I kinda liked her. She definitely is very demanding & perfectionist, doesn't know what it means to be polite & makes life hell for her subordinates. But still all this arrogance is because of the success she has achieved. She has struggled on her own to reach such heights & so she knows the meaning of struggle & hard work. She does reward hard work but is very demanding in the course. I liked her but I wouldn't want a boss like her :D
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