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Humble Bundle: Spice Up Your Love Life
Decodependence: A Romantic Tragicomic by Lila Ash - A graphic memoir, with the running theme being her codependence leading to bad choices and bad relationships. Like several other stories I’ve read, I’m mildly concerned this was written too soon: Given the timing of covid in the story, she only had a year or so of “better choices” in which to write the book; and this style of book always needs the hopefully happy ending but it’s unclear whether she’s actually there.
Why You’ll Never Find the One, And Why It Doesn’t Matter by Sarah Akinterinwa - A very light piece of self-reflection on dating mixed with a bunch of advice and self-help tricks for actually enjoying it, done mostly as comics.
Crap Dates: Disastrous Encounters from Single Life by Rhodri Marsden - A Reddit thread cleaned up and turned into book form; nothing is longer than a paragraph and many of the stories are amusing, but the commentary they try to add at the beginning of each chapter is generally boring and occasionally painful.
Sex For Lazy People - This is the sort of thing that could be helpful, or could be funny…but in execution it isn’t really either? They were clearly going for funny, but there’s nothing actually funny enough about any of the suggested positions or techniques to make that work. They’ve got a couple of one-liners here and there, but it doesn’t save the book.
Me Without You by Lisa Swerling & Ralph Lazar - This is a 95-page pdf that’s a greeting card. No, seriously, it’s doodles of things that rhyme with “me without you” in an “X without Y” format. If you could pull each page separately into a program that could randomly put three on a card cover, you could randomly generate Hallmark Anniversary greeting cards for years.
Self-Love Club by Hyesu Lee – Crudely-drawn naked lady teaches self-care and self-acceptance. It’s fine, it’s got a bit too much “Live Laugh Love” going on for me, but I suspect there are plenty of middle-aged Asian-American women who would very much identify with the author and appreciate this.
I skimmed a few of the prose books: The Ex-Girlfriend of my Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend is a book of queer (almost exclusively lesbian) dating advice that gets repetitive very quickly. 52 Ways To Stay in Love Always is cute if you’re looking for date night ideas (and your problem is “not enough to do” rather than “always too much to do). There are some books of sex magic and some more very similar books of sex advice and romantic advice; if I actually read anything else it’ll end up in a books post.
Overall: This bundle was a bit of a flop; I think I was hoping for more comics or at least more comedy, as I don’t really need more books (that I could write myself) of well-trod advice. Ah, well.
Why You’ll Never Find the One, And Why It Doesn’t Matter by Sarah Akinterinwa - A very light piece of self-reflection on dating mixed with a bunch of advice and self-help tricks for actually enjoying it, done mostly as comics.
Crap Dates: Disastrous Encounters from Single Life by Rhodri Marsden - A Reddit thread cleaned up and turned into book form; nothing is longer than a paragraph and many of the stories are amusing, but the commentary they try to add at the beginning of each chapter is generally boring and occasionally painful.
Sex For Lazy People - This is the sort of thing that could be helpful, or could be funny…but in execution it isn’t really either? They were clearly going for funny, but there’s nothing actually funny enough about any of the suggested positions or techniques to make that work. They’ve got a couple of one-liners here and there, but it doesn’t save the book.
Me Without You by Lisa Swerling & Ralph Lazar - This is a 95-page pdf that’s a greeting card. No, seriously, it’s doodles of things that rhyme with “me without you” in an “X without Y” format. If you could pull each page separately into a program that could randomly put three on a card cover, you could randomly generate Hallmark Anniversary greeting cards for years.
Self-Love Club by Hyesu Lee – Crudely-drawn naked lady teaches self-care and self-acceptance. It’s fine, it’s got a bit too much “Live Laugh Love” going on for me, but I suspect there are plenty of middle-aged Asian-American women who would very much identify with the author and appreciate this.
I skimmed a few of the prose books: The Ex-Girlfriend of my Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend is a book of queer (almost exclusively lesbian) dating advice that gets repetitive very quickly. 52 Ways To Stay in Love Always is cute if you’re looking for date night ideas (and your problem is “not enough to do” rather than “always too much to do). There are some books of sex magic and some more very similar books of sex advice and romantic advice; if I actually read anything else it’ll end up in a books post.
Overall: This bundle was a bit of a flop; I think I was hoping for more comics or at least more comedy, as I don’t really need more books (that I could write myself) of well-trod advice. Ah, well.