MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345524942 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Still, in her adopted hometown, there’s no one to call at the last minute for girl talk over brunch or a reality-TV marathon over a bottle of wine. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San Francisco and Boston and Washington, D.C. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code, let alone an apartment, with her boyfriend. Taking matters into her own hands, Bertsche develops a plan: She’ll go on fifty-two friend-dates, one per week for a year, in hopes of meeting her new Best Friend Forever.In her thought-provoking, uproarious memoir, Bertsche blends the story of her girl-dates (whom she meets everywhere from improv class to friend rental websites) with the latest soc
Funny, forthright, and honest as a midnight phone call, Bertsche's zesty hosanna to female bonding defines what it is to be a double-X Millennial.”-- Sheila Weller, author of Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation “MWF Seeking BFF is funny, charming, and so relatable. You'll enjoy joining her on her journey."-- Jeffrey Zaslow, author of The Girls from Ames “Genuine, funny and thoroughly inspiring, MWF Seeking BFF is a tribute to fe
Not easy to relate to the whiny rich-girl author Sita C Payne I picked this book up as an impulse buy. I was in Target, buying a birthday present for a 10 year old. I cut through their book department on my way to the toys in case anything jumped out at me. I immediately stopped when I saw the title. I never buy a book based on the title. I almost always have a hard recommendation from someone wh. Rachel said Wow, so many judgmental readers!. This book is a fun read, but the reviews are even more fun to read. Lots of people claim her to be childish, but I found her very genuine - it takes a great courage to do put yourself out there, isnt realizing what you want in life and bravely pursuit it a sign for maturity?Also, most of the negative reviews are "haters gotta hate" typ. jnet said The Title Should Be "VWF". The 'V' is for vacuous. This "woman" is crafting her life as if it's an episode of "Sex & the City." She gets married and as one reviewer pointed out, seems to immediately run off to work on her project to find a BFF. It's like she has a checklist: Marriage - check! Perfect career - check! Platonic arm candy, a.k.a. BFF - check! There
Her work has appeared in Marie Claire, More, Teen Vogue, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Fitness, Women's Health, CNN, and more. Before leaving New York (and all her friends) for the Midwest, Bertsche was an editor at O: The Oprah Magazine. . Rachel Bertsche is a journalist in Chicago, where she lives with her husband