101 Reasons Why It’s Great to be Single
Katie 
After yesterday’s mention of dating hell, it was easy to choose why today’s book to read would be 101 Reasons Why It’s Great To Be Single. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty independent, do a lot of really cool shit and don’t need someone to complete me – but it might be nice to have someone to hang out with and do really cool shit with sometimes. (Only sometimes.) I have to say some of the 101 reasons are a bit of a stretch – but some of them were things I already know – like Guilt-Free Adventures. Want to run off across the country to see Hanson? Cool. No significant other to run it by. (Though lets be real, even if I did end up with a boyfriend – if he tried to tell me no he’d be dumped so fast). A Silent Night – no snoring – is something that I really didn’t think about. I cannot sleep if someone in the room with me is snoring. Do I need to start adding this to my dating app profiles? Swipe left if you snore? Yikes.
This book definitely put a smile on my face and made me realize that I shouldn’t be in any sort of rush to find that special someone. I just got a new phone and I didn’t reinstall ANY dating apps. It’s ok to take some time for me!
I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.
About the Book
“A fun, light-hearted book about all the reasons why it’s great to be single. No shaving! Eating all the garlic! Guilt-free travelling with friends! A wonderful book for you or a friend going through a breakup, or anyone who just needs a reminder of all the positive things that come with being single.”
I am currently living a nightmare of dating apps so I had to laugh when I saw there was a “Choose Your Own Misery” book related to Dating. I probably shouldn’t have started it because like I said, I am living it, but I had to see if they came up with anything worse than what I have already experienced and as a kid I LOVED Choose Your Own Adventure books so I had to give it a go. I’m usually hesitant to read these in e-book forms since it’s hard to “flip” to the page that you need, but this book had hyperlinks with “swipe left for NO” and “swipe right for YES” as the way to get to the next part of your story.
The Wonder Down Under is basically a user’s guide to your vagina. (Assuming you have one. If not, you probably can skip this review.) It is an insider’s guide to the anatomy, biology, and reality of the vagina – since you really don’t learn as much as you should about it in school. There is information on sex, abortions, birth control. Lots and LOTS of detail – many, many more than any health class I had ever taken. I have been realizing lately that I am too old to not know everything about my own body so I was glad that this book laid things out in an informative and straight forward way – it wasn’t like reading a health or medical text book but still gave you all the information you needed and maybe some that you need and didn’t quite want to hear in an easy to understand kind of way. Definitely recommended for anyone who has a vagina. And I guess if you don’t but have ladies in your life and want to learn more to be more sympathetic to them, you might want to take a peak at this as well.
Chicago: America’s Best Sports Town is another in the series (I had previously read about Boston – I disagree w/ both but I may be biased as a NY Sports fan). The forward of this book is written by none other than Mike Ditka. The book focuses a chapter on each of the sports teams – Football’s Bears, Hockey’s Black hawk’s, Basketball’s Bulls, Baseball’s Cubs and White Sox. There are also chapters on the colleges, the Olympics and then some other fun inclusions as well. I really like when they include the “mount rush mores” in these books – what players from each team past and present would end up on the mount Rushmore if it was sports based and not presidential based. And for those that didn’t quite make Rushmore status, there’s also “the best of the rest.”
Scored tells the story of Matt and Kelsey. Matt is a baseball player and is currently trying to decide if he should stay with his team – the Rangers – or if he should uproot himself and go to New York and play for the Yankees. His best friend is his agent and is telling him that the money will be great in New York and that the Texas team may be stretching themselves thin trying to win him over. The chapters alternate between Matt’s point of view and Kelsey’s. Kelsey is Matt’s agent’s wife’s best friend (yeah._) and she usually dates guys who play guitar and break her heart, not athletes. Matt’s friends are hesitant to fix him up with her because they aren’t sure how it will work out. Matt ends up talking Kelsey into going out on a date with him to a concert. He has already fallen hard for her, but she isn’t sure what to do and is very reserved about their relationship. Meanwhile, Matt doesn’t tell Kelsey anything about the contract negotiations he is in the middle of and how he may move halfway across the country. Kelsey ends up hearing about it on sports radio which obviously causes a major rift in their relationship. Will Matt leave Kelsey and his home to go play for the Yankees? Or will he try to win Kelsey back and stay with the Rangers despite it being less money?
Hand Letting is something that I am always wanting to improve on. I am told that I have nice handwriting but for scrapbooking puroses being able to do fancy lettering is something that I always want to try. I also love fonts so this book was perfect for me to look at with all of the different techniques for writing cool things as well as some info on fonts. The book is a creative exploration of contemporary handwriting, typography and illustrated typeface. Definitely a lot of fun to check out.