#4. All Men are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates – Elizabeth Fournier
Elizabeth chronicles her true life dating spree as a marriage-minded mortician in her mid-30’s. Set off by her broken engagement, she enlists everyone in sight to set her up on blind dates in a passionate quest to meet just one really great guy. Armed with a 10-point list of dating criteria, skintight jeans, and flash cards on Nascar, football, and micro-breweries, she spends one full year doing the blind meet and greet. Names have been changed to protect the rejected as she humorously dishes dotcom hotties, compulsive bloggers, and tattooed graduates of the Gene Simmons School of Dating. Bridget Jones would be proud of her American cousin.
When Ms. Fournier asked me to review her book, I was super excited because I thought it sounded very entertaining and just the type of book I need to read every now and then. I was not wrong at all – her memoirish book truly entertained me and I found myself cracking up every few pages. Some of the guys she met (ok, 90% of them) were so odd I couldn’t believe her bad luck – she just kept getting these awful dates, one after the other. It would have made a great fiction chick lit book – except unfortunately for Ms. Fournier, these tales of woe came from her very own life! All Men are Cremated Equal was very funny, and I couldn’t stop reading once I got into it – I couldn’t wait to find out how her next date would go.
What really motivated me to read through the book quickly was that I wanted to find out how things turned out for her. In her author blurb on the back of the book, it states clearly that Ms. Fournier is now married, and I really wanted to find out how she got there – was it a blind date (perhaps #77?) or did she meet her husband some other way? Or could her husband possibly be someone she was already friends with when she started this quest? Don’t worry, I’m not telling … you’ll have to read the book to find out!
A big thank you to Elizabeth Fournier for sending this my way – I really liked reading it and can definitely recommend the book!
