{"id":7770,"date":"2013-01-19T22:29:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T03:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:32:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:32:44","slug":"book-review-single-happy-the-party-of-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2013\/01\/19\/book-review-single-happy-the-party-of-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Single &#038; Happy: The Party of Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17207143-single-happy\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"Single &amp; Happy: The Party of Ones\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1357273319m\/17207143.jpg?resize=98%2C134\" width=\"98\" height=\"134\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17207143-single-happy\">Single &amp; Happy: The Party of Ones<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6878234.J_Victoria_Sanders\">J. Victoria Sanders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/509117439\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in late 2011, I ran across the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/partyofones.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Single &amp; Happy<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0blog. WordPress.com had drawn me in, but I started looking at various tags including dating. Lots were people talking about current dates and especially the horror that is online dating web sites. Single &amp; Happy was a better, maturer different.<\/p>\n<p>My only other experiences with blog writers who publish a book is to collect the best blog posts, give them to an editor, maybe expand a bit upon them, and publish the collection. Instead we get an actual book influenced by prior work and so something new and exciting.<\/p>\n<p>While not a single black woman, I am single and almost black. I strongly sympathize with the plight of attempting online dating. The dating stories seem eerily familiar. And the advice Victoria gives on being a friend to yourself is good advice. It happens I a friend posted on Facebook on why she hates the question, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why are you single?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d so I referenced a quote from this book.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow after decades of being single, I think I am happy. Well, happy-ish. There is room for improvement. It is good to know there are others out there working on the same issues willing to talk about the challenges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/767304-ezra\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single &amp; Happy: The Party of Ones\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0J. Victoria Sanders My rating:\u00c2\u00a04 of 5 stars Back in late 2011, I ran across the\u00c2\u00a0Single &amp; Happy\u00c2\u00a0blog. WordPress.com had drawn me in, but I started looking at various tags including dating. Lots were people talking about current dates and especially the horror that is online dating web sites. 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