How to meet cute boys / Deanna Kizis ; illustrations by Ed Brogna.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Kizis, Deanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Young women--Fiction.
• Young women.
• Women journalists--Fiction.
• Women journalists.
• Dating (Social customs)--Fiction.
• Dating (Social customs).
• Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Genre:

• Humorous fiction.
• Fiction.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Warner Books, [2003]

Summary:

Are the men you date: Commitment-phobic? Impossible to read? Borderline insane? All of the above? If any of these answers apply, you have to read... how to meet cute boys. Twenty-seven-year-old Benjamina Franklin (and you thought you had identity problems) is the dating scene authority for L.A.'s Filly magazine, dispensing advice on everything from relationship survival tips to tweezing the perfect eyebrow. But Ben's own love life has been on a downhill roll ever since she broke up with her dull, prematurely balding boyfriend. Now her younger sister is getting married -- and since going dateless is a prospect Ben simply can't bear, she has exactly six months to find a boyfriend. At a Filly fashion bash, she meets Max, who's gorgeous, successful, interested ... and may not be quite what he seems. Suddenly Ben is suffering bouts of indecision over matters of sex, love, relationships, and whether or not shaving her legs before a first date will jinx it. With the help of her best friend, Kiki, and her well-meaning mother and sister, she attempts to steer a course through the treacherous waters of the modern dating world. Will Ben find happiness with Max? Is Max just another commitment-phobic male? Does the perfect guy even exist? Stuffed with the best of the fictional Filly magazine -- including articles and quizzes -- How to Meet Cute Boys is the most riotous and right-on novel about the singles scene to come out in years. This book is for anyone who's ever turned the pages of a women's magazine, looking for the answer to all that dating madness!

Contents:

• Filly Quiz: Is He or Isn't He? (Maybe he's your boyfriend. Maybe not) 8
• Filly Tips: Avoid Spermy (Get perfect eyebrows in six steps) 17
• Five Dates from Hell: Men Who Are Two-Timing, Cheap, and Utterly Revolting
• What's Not to Love? (A special report from L.A.'s dating battlefield) 30
• Filly Quiz: Are You, or Are You Not, a Stalker? (That is the question) 46
• Filly Tips: Stealth Phone! (These techniques can save you from yourself) 55
• Filly Lexicon: Safety Guy
• (The perfect man) 73
• Is It a Love Connection? (Plot the course of your newest romance) 86
• For Fun, Freedom, and in the Name of Research, Turn Them Off! (We get guys to hate us, so you don't have to) 107
• The Other Four-Letter Word (What you should never say out loud) 116
• Filly Post (Mom answers all your pesky questions) 130
• Filly Feed (A secret recipe that will wow your friends) 139
• Horrorscope (Warnings from the stars) 159
• The Full Life (Filly's Benjamina Franklin takes on the scary role of self-help guru) 169
• Filly Lexicon: Girlie Crack
• (You're already addicted) 174
• Filly Quiz: Go Ahead, Jump (If your friends give good advice, then why is everything going wrong?) 180
• The Filly Wheel of (In)Decision (All your mini dramas solved) 192
• First-Date Facts (What you'll wear, where you'll go, whether or not you'll get any) 209
• He's Too Young for You and He'll Ruin Your Life (But not if you read this story!) 212
• The Art of War (Plan a party like a Hollywood publicist) 229
• Could this Really Be the End? 248.

ISBN:

0446530727

OCLC:

51088146