This book is so GREAT!!!! Whether you are single, dating someone, or married, you will find it impossible to NOT relate to this book.
I have had my own share of dating adventures, but even more so have seen friends go through their own rough times...totally feeling the pressure to marry and settle down. This leads to endless conversations about what is wrong with them, why didn't he call, etc. I even went out and bought that book "He's Just Not that Into You", to read for myself and thinking this would surely give me the wisdom and right thing to say the next time a friend called upset that some guy wasn't treating her right....and somehow this was her fault. But no.....no such luck, no real understanding of how unfair the pressures women feel to make it work at any cost with any guy (at least not in that book, or books like it) until THIS ONE . . .
If you've ever read (or lent someone) books like "He's Just not that Into you" or read all the chick lit books that spend the whole time selling you on how it's okay to be single but then always end up with the perfect guy in the end (which admittedly I have read and enjoy for entertainment value...but honestly enough is enough) .... YOU HAVE TO READ THIS.
It's as smart and funny as Sex and the City with depth and insight of authors like John Gray (Men are From Mars Women are From Venus) and ....hmmmm....actually I can't think of anyone else, because Leslie Talbot is the most insightful person I've read on this topic.
More than that It's FUNNY....really really funny!
Anyway.....if I haven't said enough for you to buy this book IMMEDIATELY..she's also a fellow Bostonian and a very nice person who e-mailedme back personally after writing a comment about her book on her equally FABULOUS website www.singularexistence.com (which is also SOOOOO funny!).
Product Description
A fierce, funny read that redraws the fine line between alone and lonely.
One part memoir, one part self-help, with a dash of shrewd social commentary and a liberal dose of snark, Singular Existence is the surefire cure all for your single girl blues.
Creator of the popular website, Singularexistence.com,author LeslieTalbot deftly--and hilariously--eviscerates the media fads, self-help quackery, chick lit formula, and bogus social science that plague the unmarried, offering you a refreshingly optimistic perspective on the state of singledom.Essays include:
- Shallow, Self-Centered, and Opinionated Seeks Opposite (an undercover investigation into the tangled web of online dating)
The Rules of Disengagement (a coward's guide to breakup etiquette)
Warning--Contents May Settle (the dire consequences of marital desperation--one woman's cautionary tale)
Deconstructing The Married Guy (a four-point primer on the psyche of the male adulterer)
He's Just a Big Fat A**hole (the real reason he's "just not that into" you)
Manifesto Destiny (a Declaration of Independence for the proudly unmarried)
Leslie Talbot is the founder of Singularexistence.com,a website that has gained a passionate following among snarky singles everywhere and was the proud inspiration for at least one broken engagement. In real life, Leslie is a business writing consultant to Fortune 500 companies.She lives in her own apartment in Boston, MA and has no intention of getting a roommate.
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