Book "Curse of the Singles Table"

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Registered: 10-17-2002
Book "Curse of the Singles Table"
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Wed, 02-02-2005 - 11:50am
I am reading this book right now and enjoying it - especially her several chapters of her online dating escapades. Makes me feel right at home. The part I really do NOT like is her going on and on about how awful it is to be a single person over the age of 30 and how "you must be thinking I am a troll or emotionally/mentally defective because I went 3 whole years without sex". Ummm, no. I know plenty of wonderful women that have dry spells. It doesn't make them ugly or horrible people. She seems to always be justifying about how everyone must be thinking how awful she is since she went so long. Pretty annoying considering I am in a bit of a drought right now myself and do not consider myself a troll nor an emotional/mental defective! I kind of resent her implying that anyone that has gone or is going through this must have something wrong with them. Maybe that will be the big realization at the end, that there really is nothing wrong, but I don't know! :-)

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Registered: 11-18-2003
Thu, 02-03-2005 - 12:06pm
After reading the posts on this thread I became intrigued. I just ordered myself a copy.

 

 

 

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Registered: 10-17-2002
Thu, 02-03-2005 - 12:11pm
Yup, me too. The first eH guy I met, we emailed and phoned for months before meeting. He was a great guy and we had a lot in common, but when we met, I wasn't feeling it. He reminded me of someone that really annoyed me that to this day I can't put my finger on who it is. But I wanted to move slowly and when we finally met, zippo chemistry. I just kind of drifted off and was really busy all the time (too chicken to say, sorry, no chemistry) and he finally emailed that he was "pursuing another relationship" with the subject line "Please Read!!!" (like I cared - I was relieved that he "dumped" me and I was off the hook!). Then there was the guy that brought me here with my first question on the board. He was attractive, funny, great and we had tons in common. We had long email and phone conversations that just clicked. I was going out of town and we talked about meeting when I got back. He told me to call him when I did. Well, I emailed him while I was gone - no response. I called him when I got back and got voice mail. Then over eH, he closed me stating he was "pursuing another relationship". I was devastated. But all the time I was thinking it was BS because how do you go from getting ready to meet me to "pursuing another relationship" in 4 days? To this day, I think he was lying but somehow, something changed and he was JNTIM. I still sigh over that one sometimes. I would have liked to meet him but oh well!

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Registered: 10-11-2004
Thu, 02-03-2005 - 2:37pm
I read this book and loved it! It was so funny and I couldn't put it down. I could totally relate to so many of her dating stories. I highly recommend it to anyone who is 30 and single. It gives you hope and the feeling that love could possibly be right around the corner.
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Registered: 12-10-2004
Thu, 02-03-2005 - 7:02pm

>>You hold LG still and I will beat him upside the head with B.O.B until he cries uncle.<<

You know, I see this was edited... I could have sworn the first time I read it, it said that YOU would hold LG and that *I* would beat his head with your BOB.

And all I could think was "um, no thanks, I'd rather not touch BOB unless I have some gloves on."

Nothing personal... it's just me and BOB, we've been different places in life, if you know what I mean. LOL

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Registered: 04-18-2003
Thu, 02-03-2005 - 7:46pm

No, no.....what I actually edited was the reassurance to LG about how much I loved him (which I am sure you know was a wuote from "Steel Magnolias"). I had originally written "as much as my luggage" but realized that the correct quote was "more than".

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