I finished reading Courtenay Hameister's book Okay Fine Whatever. The title is about how I felt about the book. Ostensibly, it was about Hameister (who has generalized anxiety disorder) spending a year doing things outside her comfort zone. And she does do some of that, but it is really a book about her dating escapades, and in an entirely predictable ending, she meets and falls in love with a guy. Good for her. It is the problem I have with books like this, especially ones masquerading as one thing when they are really another - if it worked for me, it can work for you. Hameister went out with 27 men over the course of a year, got laid a few times, and then, #28 was the one who stuck. I've been divorced for almost nine years, am still single, and go out on like three dates a year.
It is not to criticize her, but the reality is that books like that do not end up getting written unless there is a happy ending because to do otherwise would reinforce for the people who read it that life does not always have a happy ending. But hey, you too could be in your mid-40s, still trying to decide what you want to do with your life (her description) and somehow scratch out a living teaching writing to adults (?) and picking up some freelance work, and making a go of it. Sure Jan.
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