Sometimes as a single girl you think “is there something wrong with me”, is my “picker broken” it was fun to read and hear advice.

Fulfilled my non fiction resolution as well

A super interesting book, a quick read. As a single person, it was nice to read this point of view.

As a relatively new reader of the non-fiction genre i found that Ms Bain hit the bulls-eye with her book on the 'problems' of single girls! Being a voluntary single girl myself I thouroughly related to every age of the book nodding my head in agreement or shaking it in disdain...
This book is BRILLIANT! High hopes for MS Bain's writing career (She's a cracker on TV :))
Kudos!
~ Thanks to Netgalley and the Publishers for my ARC~

Funny in places. I expected something funnier and more about single life and less about relationships.

It was off to a good start with plenty of warmth and humour. The idea of there being a shelf women over a certain age are relegated to is certainly an outmoded one that really needs relegating to history. I was a bit put off at how US focused this was. Being single is less a stigma in some other countries and possibly mord in others. And the real issue for me was the fact that the last part of the book was about how not to be single. There are dozens of books tgat already give varying degrees of awful advice on that. I wanted to see more about accepying that you are enough in and of yourself and focusing on fulfiling friendships. Bit disappointing really.

As a single woman, I was looking forward to reading this book. However, with one early chapter outlining a very detailed history of Jennifer, Brad, and Angelina, and another devoted to Disney portrayals, I abandoned this book. I'm also not sure why there is a chapter in a book for Single Girls devoted to 'what not to say' to singles?!?

I received a free copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Eeeh. I went into this thinking I was going to leave feeling empowered and even more chill about being perpetually single. Left with a bunch of advice on how to get myself mentally ready to take on a relationship and how to figure out if this relationship is right for me (and for my partner). Considering the title of the book, and the entire "why being single isn't a problem to be solved", I feel slightly.. cheated?

On the plus-side, Andrea Bain is quick-witted and has a sharp sense of humour, which was an absolute delight to read.

This review is going to be short and not so sweet. Single Girl Problems: Why Being Single Isn't A Problem To Be Solved by Andrea Bain is not what it says it is. While it starts off being about how people talk to and about single people, it ends with the best tips for online dating and how to not self-sabotage yourself out of a good relationship. As a single girl, this is not what I was expecting or what I wanted from this book.

Synopsis:
Being single sucks! Well, that's what everyone says, anyway. Single women over the age of 29 are seen as lonely, miserable, undesirable, and cat-crazy. Family members, friends — heck, even perfect strangers ask, “When are you going to get married?” This book flips the script on what it means to be a single woman in the twenty-first century. With dating horror story anecdotes and advice about online dating, self-esteem, sex, money, and freezing your eggs, Andrea Bain takes the edge off being single and encourages women to never settle.

Above is the description from Goodreads which usually I have no problem with and while it does say the book is going to give advice on sex and dating, the title gives the impression that this book is going to be all about single female empowerment. It does give us that in the first half. It starts off so well. The author explains how ridiculous it can be to have to answer the question "Why are you still single?" and how you shouldn't have to justify your lifestyle (or god forbid explain the ways you are not a spinster). All of that is great! But the author veers off from those valid points into advice on how to find the "right" man. Not only is that completely heteronormative (as if gay and bisexual women don't exist), but also completely nullifies the whole first part of the book, not to mention the title.

I have a lot of doubts when it comes to dating, sex, and if I'm doing the right things, so when I saw this book on NetGalley, I was overjoyed. Finally, a book for me and a bunch of my single friends! But, no, it really just turns out to be another book telling me what I should be doing to "find my soulmate." I felt myself getting a little wary once I got to the sex chapter. It felt like she was telling the reader when in a relationship it's appropriate to have sex (her answer was not whenever the two consenting people choose to) and it just got worse once I started reading the online dating chapter. The author starts blatantly giving advice on how to make a dating profile that will attract the "right" man. Why is she trying to solve singleness when she states in the subtitle that it is not a problem to be solved?

Yes, the book was well-written, the author's voice was unique, and her snark was very appreciated, but that's not enough to save this book for me. As I really enjoyed the first half of the book, I am still giving it 3 out of 5 stars. The second half was just like every other dating article/self-help book out there, which is incredibly upsetting. This could have been the antithesis of those books, but it failed in that regard.

If you're looking for a dating advice book or that's the type of books you like to read, go for it. But if you expect this book to be all about empowering the single woman to be who she is and that it is completely okay to live without a man, then you should probably look elsewhere.

Single Girl Problems: Why Being Single Isn't A Problem To Be Solved by Andrea Bain comes out February 6, 2018.

Thank you, NetGalley and Dundurn for this free copy in exchange for my honest review.

If you are single, no matter what my age, this book is a gem for the pros and cons of on line dating, bar pickups and even friends suggestions for dating.. Beware of the pitfalls. The author recounts 'some horrible/dangerous encounters single women have had with men. Buy a copy if you are new to dating, it could save you some horrible experiences.

I would actually try to talk someone out of reading this. It's taking up space in the literary world that should be taken up by something empowering, not this bitter mess. The dating tips at the end really made it extra disappointing.

I enjoyed the writing and thought I'd like a fiction book by this author. Based on the blurb this book wasn't what I expected. I enjoyed the online dating chapters as I love anything to do with online dating. The experiences were interesting and funny, and more of this would be of been great. Thanks goes to the publishers and net galley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review. This will be released 6th February 2018.

This book is meant for Single women over 30 and the 21st Century feminist I could see this being featured in a cosmopolitan