- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Anchor Canada (Feb 1 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 038566107X
- ISBN-13: 978-0385661072
- Product Dimensions: 14.4 x 1.6 x 20.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #603,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Cameron’s collection of nightmare dates is nosy, gossipy fun.”
–The Globe and Mail
"A Sex in the City for the printed page. You will not put it down, except for those moments when you rest it on your lap while you roll your eyes to the high heavens.”
– Hour (Montreal)
–The Globe and Mail
"A Sex in the City for the printed page. You will not put it down, except for those moments when you rest it on your lap while you roll your eyes to the high heavens.”
– Hour (Montreal)
Product Description
Part Sex & the City, part Bridget Jones’s Diary, Playing with Matches will make you laugh, cry, and thank the dating goddess that at least it didn’t happen to you.
Playing with Matches is the answer to every single woman’s wail of “Why does this happen to me?”
Honey, it happens to everyone. Women from all over the world have contributed to Playing with Matches, answering the call for tragic dating tales in all their nasty and delicious detail. And as a survivor of countless terrible evenings, Cameron is an expert. She’s dated an overweight manic eater who picked fights and an anaesthesiologist twenty years her senior who really did put her to sleep. Each new bad date made her swear off men forever. Until, of course, another hopeful possibility presented himself.
Bad dates happen. Every night, another woman returns home reeling from a missed match. But each evening spent with Mr. Wrong teaches us something about our own love limits. Can I cuddle with a man who blows his nose in a cloth napkin? Do I like to spank my lover? Do I have something in common with the director of a funeral home? Does a pierced nipple bother me? How about a pierced scrotum? We need to embrace our misadventures, share the pain, and find the humour. Playing with Matches will remind us all that no matter how awful a date was, there is always someone else with a worse story.
Four of us — the single women at the baby shower — are hunched in a corner drinking bloody Marys and ignoring a chorus of cooing over a Winnie the Pooh breastfeeding pillow. “All night long he talked to me through the bloody cat,” Julie complains. “‘Does Mummy like to snuggle? Isn’t Mummy funny?’” I snort my drink all over her winter white skirt. She brushes it off without thinking and continues, “I bought leather knee-high boots for this guy? ”
. . .
Everyone knows the recipe for an ideal date: one nice guy plus great hair day, a cup of good lighting, remove five pounds, a sprinkle of new perfume and a liberal splash of Stoli vodka. That someone actually manages to cook up a date like this is rare.
Playing with Matches is for women who, let’s face it, have much more experience with recipes of disaster than recipes for romance. We know that there are more bad dates out there than good ones. Intellectually, we also know that these misadventures build character. As Mom says, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?
—from Playing with Matches
Playing with Matches is the answer to every single woman’s wail of “Why does this happen to me?”
Honey, it happens to everyone. Women from all over the world have contributed to Playing with Matches, answering the call for tragic dating tales in all their nasty and delicious detail. And as a survivor of countless terrible evenings, Cameron is an expert. She’s dated an overweight manic eater who picked fights and an anaesthesiologist twenty years her senior who really did put her to sleep. Each new bad date made her swear off men forever. Until, of course, another hopeful possibility presented himself.
Bad dates happen. Every night, another woman returns home reeling from a missed match. But each evening spent with Mr. Wrong teaches us something about our own love limits. Can I cuddle with a man who blows his nose in a cloth napkin? Do I like to spank my lover? Do I have something in common with the director of a funeral home? Does a pierced nipple bother me? How about a pierced scrotum? We need to embrace our misadventures, share the pain, and find the humour. Playing with Matches will remind us all that no matter how awful a date was, there is always someone else with a worse story.
Four of us — the single women at the baby shower — are hunched in a corner drinking bloody Marys and ignoring a chorus of cooing over a Winnie the Pooh breastfeeding pillow. “All night long he talked to me through the bloody cat,” Julie complains. “‘Does Mummy like to snuggle? Isn’t Mummy funny?’” I snort my drink all over her winter white skirt. She brushes it off without thinking and continues, “I bought leather knee-high boots for this guy? ”
. . .
Everyone knows the recipe for an ideal date: one nice guy plus great hair day, a cup of good lighting, remove five pounds, a sprinkle of new perfume and a liberal splash of Stoli vodka. That someone actually manages to cook up a date like this is rare.
Playing with Matches is for women who, let’s face it, have much more experience with recipes of disaster than recipes for romance. We know that there are more bad dates out there than good ones. Intellectually, we also know that these misadventures build character. As Mom says, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?
—from Playing with Matches
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Misadventures,
By Tara Jean "book addict" (Edmonton, AB, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Playing With Matches: Misadventures in Dating (Paperback)
This book is HILARIOUS! Everyone should own this book. The stories are funny, embarassing, and entertaining. I found myself reading them out loud to all my friends and they loved reading the book as well. Many of the stories make you glad you didn't live them! Highly recommended
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious fun!,
By Maria Hoeffer (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Playing With Matches: Misadventures in Dating (Paperback)
I loved this one! I read these delicious stories here and there - on the train, in bed, lounging in the afternoon. Some made me cringe and be glad that wasn't me. Others were truly laugh out loud funny! I just had to read some of them aloud to my husband. We had such good times laughing and cringing about them! We even shared our own worst dates. Turns out they both involved the movie "There's Something About Mary"!This book isn't going to change your life, but it may make you feel better about it! PS. I really want to send an anniversary card to Amy's parents! I can't believe their wedding story!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining and Hilarious,
By Shirley Mullin (Danville, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Playing With Matches: Misadventures in Dating (Paperback)
Wow, this is a very enjoyable, compulsively readable book; in fact it may be the ultimate "bad date" book. If you're single -- or even if your not -- you'll find plenty of amusement in this mosaic of mismatched evenings: kind of like a "best of the worst" date compendium. Hideous funny adventures are recounted with humor, not bitterness. Ultimately, I thought, this is a book about hope; the hope the enables us to move on, try and try again. I recommend it! In addition to PLAYING WITH MATCHES, another book I'd like to recommend (also about dating/relationships, but from an lighthearted male perspective) is called: THE LOSERS CLUB: Complete Restored Edition by Richard Perez -- the comic story of an unlucky writer addicted to personal ads in pre-9/11 New York City. PLAYING WITH MATCHES and THE LOSERS CLUB are the best (relationship/dating) books I've purchased off Amazon this year. Don't miss them!
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