Every Friday Night: My Year of Dating Misadventures - Hardcover

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A wickedly funny and wryly wise view of life on the dating scene, filled with encounters that will resonate with every woman whose search for Prince Charming is more comedy than fairy tale.

Every Friday Night is the hilarious, first person account of the experiences of Ritta McLaughlin, a beautiful, smart, and charismatic investment banker, and her commitment to go on at least one date a week, every week, for a whole year. “The point,” she writes, “wasn’t to get me into the Guinness Book of Dubious Records for dating fifty-plus guys; it was to find my prince.” Though she didn’t end up with an engagement ring, her adventures led the way to this sparkling gem of a book.
On the rebound from a broken heart and facing her thirtieth birthday with no marriage prospects in sight, McLaughlin resolved to get a life (G.A.L.). Her journey began at a restaurant with a date her matchmaking uncle touted as “future husband material.” By the time the dinner appeared on the table, McLaughlin harbored serious suspicions that she had been set up with a man more likely to end up in an asylum than in a cozy living room. Then there was the polite, respectful, and devoted suitor whose notion of a strong relationship boiled down to a demand for the complete merger of identities. Her adventure with a classic Mr. Right-Now ended relatively well, with McLaughlin triumphantly out-gaming the gamer, but the Marauder not only took a piece of her heart in his quick getaway, he also took a stack of CDs, her portable disc player, and a hundred dollars from her wallet.
A natural storyteller, McLaughlin writes with open-hearted honesty about her own flaws, reckless actions, and crazy dates, and she shows that the quest for romance offers women a whole new perspective on themselves, and is a great way to discover the pleasures of G.A.L. without (necessarily) having a guy by their sides.

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Every Friday Night is the hilarious, first-person account of the experiences of Ritta McLaughlin, a beautiful, smart, and charismatic investment banker, and her commitment to go on at least one date a week, every week, for a whole year. ?The point,? she writes, ?wasn?t to get me into the Guinness Book of Dubious Records for dating fifty-plus guys; it was to find my prince.? Though she didn?t end up with an engagement ring, her adventures led the way to this gem of a book. With openhearted honesty about her own flaws, reckless actions, and crazy dates, McLaughlin shows that the quest for romance can offer women a whole new perspective on themselves.

Profiles of a few of the toxic bachelors in Ritta McLaughlin?s Every Friday Night:

Mr. Greenjeans: He?s hot, hunky, and hung up on his ex.

The Psycho: Before the main course arrives he's telling you about his eighteen-month nervous breakdown.

The Monopolizer: He seems like the quintessential nice guy, until you have to start screening his every-fifteen-minute phone calls.

The Ho: A classic Mr. Right Now with ?attachment issues.?

The Marauder: Seductive and secretive, he steals your heart, and your money!

Staggering Stu: By age thirty he hasn?t realized that a few cocktails don?t make him Cary Grant, they make him sloppy drunk.

The Orbiter: Every time you bump into each other you have a great time and he asks for your card, but he never calls. When confronted he is shocked: ?You didn?t really think I was going to call, did you??

The Ken Doll: Sure he?ll toy with Skipper, but this man is looking for Barbie. You?re marriage material, but only if you drop twenty pounds and get a boob job.

The Switch-hitter: You think it?s a nice, slow courtship, until his male ?roommate? comes home drunk, calls you a ?trollop,? and tells your date to ?pick a team.?

From the Back Cover:
“Terry McMillan meets Sex in the City in this chronicle of real-life dating disasters....[McLaughlin] takes readers on a tour of some entertaining blow-by-blow interactions”
Publishers Weekly

“Tart and quick....a lot of good stories”
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  • PublisherDoubleday
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 0385503806
  • ISBN 13 9780385503808
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages240
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