by Melissa Bank
Mass Market Paperback, 274 pages
Published March 29th 2005 by Penguin (Non-Classics) (first published 1999)
ISBN0143035479 (ISBN13: 9780143035473)
You can feel that he wants to own you,-not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep on having.
One of my best girlfriends in the office suggested I read this book. Honestly, I was hesitant to so at first since that pal was fresh from a break up I thought this book was a stereotypical "how to" on moving on, and I knew I didn't need that stuff at the moment. But then, she told me it wasn't and somehow, I trusted that friend's judgment.
I must say that Melissa Bank did a wonderful job on this book. It was light and easy read without compromising the substance and the wits of the story. I'm sure a lot of women would recognize themselves as the typical Jane in the book who underwent and felt the different stages of love and relationships.
The book teaches us the irrefutable fact of life that whether we like it or not, we will get hurt and we can't do anything about it for it's something inevitable. Jane in the story, in fear of ruining a budding romance, tightened up and followed a pathetic guide on dating. Thus resulting to her sounding like a snooty high school girl that almost drove the man of his dreams away.
It simply tells us how women encounter trial and errors with men and life, which sometimes end up with a chaotic turn of events. These disastrous situations that most of us dread a lot makes us a stronger and wiser person each time. It notes that we can't always go by the book when it comes to living and loving since it's never always the same problem that requires the same equation.
"You try to plan your life but that's not how it works."
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