How To Meet Cute Boys
By: Johneen Manning
Kizis has got it all down: our neuroses, anxieties, and (most importantly) that annoying flicker of hope that keeps us looped in the madness that is the world of dating. She develops real characters who leap off the page and exclaim their uniqueness with real voices.
Twenty-seven year-old Benjamina Franklin is the dating authority for Filly, L.A.’s lady mag, even though her own personal life is in an all too familiar place somewhere between “in shambles” and “hell”.
Ben is increasingly successful at being a failure in love - but hey, at least she is able to make a living from the debacle otherwise known as her (very public) personal life! To sweeten the pot (and add an extra kick of reality) while Ben’s romantic disasters are the meat of public entertainment, her baby sister announces she’s tying the knot and her single mother has men falling all over her. And then there’s Max. Is he merely a return trip to spinsterhood or a one-way ticket to true love?
Due to uncontrollable fits of laughter, I had to put the book down after reading the first page of chapter and feature titles, including:
“Is He or Isn’t He? Maybe he’s your boyfriend. Maybe not.”
Five Dates from Hell: Men Who Are Two-Timing, Cheap, and Utterly Revolting - What’s Not To Love” (is there any other kind?)
And of course, “The Other Four-Letter Word: What you should never say out loud.”
You’ll adore Ben’s forte for extreme over-analysis, and maybe even improve your own dating nightmare while you laugh out-loud reading her insanely funny, provocative (and sometimes wise) tips, articles and quizzes straight from the pages of the fictional Filly .
Definitely read it, (especially if you’re out there in the dating battle-field) but be prepared for numerous pauses filled with wild laughter. Fellow single ladies, if you take nothing else from this book, take these four words: Full life his ass.
Johneen Manning is Editor-In-Chief of http://www.GKFA.com, a hip, savvy & fresh online magazine for the ‘Sex and the City’ generation of women.