Search - You Have To Kiss A Lot Of Frogs (Red Dress Ink)

Are there no editors anywhere in the publishing industry anymore? At 443 pages this book was too long by half. The dating tales of aspiring actress Karrie Kline spans 20 endless years. We start with Karrie as a young woman just starting out in the world, and end with a 43 year old Karrie, who seems to have not grown or changed one iota. Karrie Kline is no Carrie Bradshaw. The stories of her dating life are boring and endless, with nary a happy moment or ending in sight. There is no humor as in Bridget Jones books, just incessant tales of affairs with a number of men who all seemed interchangeable. Most of the time Karrie seems like a Desperate Single Woman, and after slogging through the tales of her dating woes, I got to the last line and wanted to throw the book at the wall. Read Bridget Jones Diary, watch Sex in the City but skip this book.

Pretty good. The book dips into the dating life of an actress still single at age 45. Written in very short chapters - as befit some of the dates - it's a bit choppy and was hard for me enjoy for that reason. But Graff can be funny, and the book was interesting in bits. I particularly appreciated that Karrie basically liked herself, was not particularly neurotic, nor particularly self-obsessed.

"You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs" is about one woman's search for Mr. Right, and all the "frogs" she had to kiss on her journey to find him. I think every woman in the world will be able to relate to Karrie's struggle to find the perfect man. This is a fun well-written "beach book", as I like to call them and I think any woman who has jumped into the dating pool headfirst will laugh out loud as she reads the main character's dating misadventures.

This book was okay, but not a favorite of mine to read. It did get better as time went along but a lot of her stories weren't really that awful. I think that there are a lot worse dating stories out there.

great by the pool read

I got through the first 100 pages and just wasn't that impressed. It was kind of boring and got confusing with all of the flashbacks.