A frank, guileless, and useful account of a 50-something’s search for love through online dating services.
One woman's adventures in the online dating scene.
When her husband of many years abruptly left her for another woman, Grey (a pseudonym), in her early 50s, went through the stages of grief and denial before finally admitting she needed to find another man to fill the emptiness in her heart. Not knowing where else to look, she turned to the numerous online dating sites to find a possible mate, filling out questionnaires, attaching photographs, and launching into the project with gusto, enthusiasm, and a sense of humor. What she discovered over the course of two-plus years of reading profiles, connecting via email, Skype, texting, and in-person dates unfolds in a genuinely human story of needs, wants, dreams, hopes, humor, and shock. Grey was unprepared for the men interested only in sex in all its forms: in real life, in sexting, in Skyping. She was also not ready for the instant rejections she received based on her profile, lengthy emails, and visuals of her ample body, and she was ill-equipped for the heart-pounding reality of meeting yet another stranger, falling briefly for him, only to discover he was another dud. As the author persisted in her pursuit of finding love again, she discovered a lot about herself, which helped her dismiss the bottom feeders and otherwise creepy men, but it left her no closer to finding a life companion. Direct, sincere, humiliating, and oftentimes funny, Grey's dalliances with countless men will have readers shaking their heads, shouting, 'no, don't do it,' while cheering her on with shared optimism as she ventures out yet again into the midlife dating fray. Any single person contemplating the use of online dating sites would do well to read Grey's account for what to do and not to do and what to expect from these matchmaking endeavors.
A frank, guileless, and useful account of a 50-something’s search for love through online dating services.Pub Date: May 2, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-06-265623-0
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: Feb. 19, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2017
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
A wonderful page-turner written with humility, immediacy, and great style. Nothing came cheap and easy to McCandless, nor...
The excruciating story of a young man on a quest for knowledge and experience, a search that eventually cooked his goose, told with the flair of a seasoned investigative reporter by Outside magazine contributing editor Krakauer (Eiger Dreams, 1990).
Chris McCandless loved the road, the unadorned life, the Tolstoyan call to asceticism. After graduating college, he took off on another of his long destinationless journeys, this time cutting all contact with his family and changing his name to Alex Supertramp. He was a gent of strong opinions, and he shared them with those he met: "You must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life''; "be nomadic.'' Ultimately, in 1992, his terms got him into mortal trouble when he ran up against something—the Alaskan wild—that didn't give a hoot about Supertramp's worldview; his decomposed corpse was found 16 weeks after he entered the bush. Many people felt McCandless was just a hubris-laden jerk with a death wish (he had discarded his map before going into the wild and brought no food but a bag of rice). Krakauer thought not. Admitting an interest that bordered on obsession, he dug deep into McCandless's life. He found a willful, reckless, moody boyhood; an ugly little secret that sundered the relationship between father and son; a moral absolutism that agitated the young man's soul and drove him to extremes; but he was no more a nutcase than other pilgrims. Writing in supple, electric prose, Krakauer tries to make sense of McCandless (while scrupulously avoiding off-the-rack psychoanalysis): his risky behavior and the rites associated with it, his asceticism, his love of wide open spaces, the flights of his soul.
Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1996
ISBN: 0-679-42850-X
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Villard
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 1995
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