“Funny, smart, and compulsively likeable, Anna David is this decade’s answer to Carrie Bradshaw. There won’t be a single second you won’t root for her as she bravely tries to answer the resonating question: how can I be my best self?” —Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The Department of Lost and Found
The sex-and-relationship expert on G4’s Attack of the Show, author of Party Girl and Bought, and the editor of Reality Matters, Anna David is smart, successful, and single. Falling for Me is Anna’s provocative, eye-opening, and inspiring chronicle of the year she changed her life by following the advice of Cosmopolitan Magazine guru Helen Gurley Brown in her classic Sex and the Single Girl. Anna’s story of “How I Hung Curtains, Learned to Cook, Traveled to Seville, and Fell in Love”—and her determination to either find “the one” or accept once and for all that it’s not in the cards—is touching and transformative, exhilarating and uplifting, and belongs on every bookshelf next to Eat, Pray, Love and The Happiness Project.
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“Because every girl can use a best-friend-in-a-book, and this one is a winner: funny, smart, and brutally honest.” (Flavorwire.com )
“A thoughtful chronicle with inspiring lessons in personal growth and building a life one loves from the inside out.” (Publishers Weekly )
“Anna David’s journey is ripe with wry observation of situations ranging from poignant to hilarious, ending with the ultimate message that we create our own happy endings. In short? I fell for Anna David, and you will, too.” (Jen Lancaster, New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Is the New Black )
“In this new form of reality lit, Anna David shows it’s never too late to come of age and sometimes it takes an unexpected fairy godmother- say Helen Gurley Brown-to get us there. Anna had me falling for her, myself, and this book with every brave and vulnerable page.” (Jennifer Belle, New York Times bestselling author of High Maintenance and The Seven Year Bitch )
From the Back Cover
Like most women, whether they’ve chosen the Fortune 500 career path or have had five kids by 35, Anna David wondered if she’d made the right choices. Then she came upon the book Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitan’s fearless leader from the mid-sixties to the late nineties. Immediately connecting with Gurley Brown’s unique message of self-empowerment combined with femininity, Anna vowed to use Sex as a lesson plan, venturing out of her comfort zone in the hope of overcoming the fears and insecurities that had haunted her for years. Embarking on a journey both intensely personal and undeniably universal, she becomes adventurous and spontaneous—reviving her wardrobe and apartment, taking French lessons, dashing off to Seville, and whiling nights away with men she never would have considered before. In the process, she ends up meeting the person really worth changing for: herself.
Anna David is the author of the novels Party Girl (HarperCollins, 2007) and Bought (HarperCollins, 2009), the non-fiction books Reality Matters (HarperCollins, 2010) and Falling for Me (HarperCollins, 2011) and the Kindle Singles Animal Attraction (Amazon, 2012) and They Like Me, They Really Like Me (Amazon, 2013). Her latest book, By Some Miracle I Made It Out of Here Alive (a biography on the actor Tom Sizemore), was released in April, 2013 from Simon & Schuster.
David was the sex and relationship expert on G4's Attack of the Show for over three years and is a regular guest on The Today Show, The Talk, Fox News' Hannity and Red Eye, The CBS Morning Show, Dr. Drew, Jane Velez-Mitchell and various other programs on Fox News, NBC, MSNBC, CTV, MTV News, VH1 and E. Her Sirius radio show, Sex Files, was the network's number-one specialty show and she's written for The New York Times, The LA Times, Details, Playboy, People, Cosmo, Us Weekly, Redbook, Maxim, Movieline, Women's Health, The New York Post, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Salon, among many others.
David has been an editor at the websites Styleclick, Dipdive and The Fix, an assistant editor at Parenting and a staff writer for Premiere. She is currently doing graduate work in drug and alcohol counseling at UCLA and speaks at colleges across the country on addiction. Her hit monthly storytelling show, True Tales of Lust and Love, takes place the second Saturday of every month at The Mint and she is currently editing the True Tales of Lust and Love anthology, which will be released by Counterpoint/Soft Skull in 2014.
Ok, so the author is crazy but hit the nail on the head with this story. She taps into something that so many people are going through - You can easily feel like something is wrong with yourself if you get to your 30s and are unmarried because you're not right in the head. I just spent all night reading the book and I'm sure it will be a huge success. Read the first chapter online and it only gets better. For me, it was like reading a female version of my own story. The author is smart...the personal nature of her stories and thoughts cut through the B.S. bravado in her life and the reader's. It was worth reading all night...although I doubt my skin is going to be glowing when the sun comes up. Highlights include: plenty of hot single sex, inner thoughts on everything, lots of dates and watching the Author grow into herself. The book had a, 'man in the grey flannel suit' quality about it. If you understand what she's talking about...this book could be a life changer. I'm going to buy some extra copies for friends.
After meeting a married man who she connects with but can't have, Anna David decides to shake up her life via advice from famed pioneering Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, following as much of her retro advice as she can. Much of Brown's advice seems truly dated, but David manages apply it to very modern phenomenon like online dating. Any woman who's participated in online dating and experienced the hell that is the wishy-washy dater (or really any kind) will appreciate her adventures meeting men there.
But this is more than a book about a single woman's relationship travails. David explores what has made her happy, and unhappy, in the past, and seeks to recreate the former and change the latter. She travels to Seville, a city she remembers fondly from her college days, and while at first she despairs that it isn't the same as she recalled, but proceeds to stick it out and marvel in simple things, like finding an out of the way gym.
I liked the times when David disagreed with Brown, managing to still create an homage to the author while putting her foot down about just how far she'll go. It's not just about how she redecorated or who she dated, as why. As her motivation shifts from self-improvement in the name of dating to simply enjoying her new experiences without a big goal or lesson in mind, David becomes more relatable. She isn't trying to claim that her way (or Gurley's) is the only way, but simply one way she fell for, and learned about, herself. An entertaining memoir that will be especially of interest to people in their thirties (or older) who feel like they're "too old" to change their lives.
I'm not sure I know anyone that can say they haven't struggled, or at least questioned if their life is where they thought it would or should be at some given point in time. There always seems to be the ever petulant feeling that the roadmap you planned for your life (or society programmed you to plan) doesn't match where you think it should be.
Anna David's pivotal moment came when she was on the verge of a major meltdown and became captivated by the pages of Sex & the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown in a NYC bookstore. Being single wasn't the end all...timeless advice from this 1960's book. This motivated Anna to apply age old advice, with a modern day girl spin to find love.
Throughout the book, the author depicts her most intimate thoughts, questionable choices, actions and vulnerabilities. It was uncannily comforting to feel as if this stranger was describing so many of my own life experiences. It was like reading chapters out of my own story.
The wit, inner-banter and vulnerability eloquently detailed by Anna provides an outlet for self awareness and entertainment, whether you're a single girl of all ages or married woman with or without children. And the perfect and insightful resource for the curious male.
My 'Falling for Me' experience provided me with what a book hasn't in a very long time... inspiration and camaraderie. The universal message lets you know that whether it's something small or something that scares you to the core, those are the things that guide on the ultimate quest to finding love...in yourself.
Anna David is an accomplished writer at a very young age;a single girl dating a married man and is okay with that.What bothers me most is the wrong message she is giving to the young people out there.During her recent appearance as a guest on a TV show,I was disappointed to hear her outline and emphasize the benefits of sex;how it makes you fit ,healthy, boosts your focus,makes your brain function better and on she went.I was expecting the host of the show to ask her some questions about her unqualified claims.I am not disputing that sex has health benefits but the conditions to achieve these benefits must be highlited along with the benefits or else one is giving a dangerous message.Infact sex under wrong situations can lead to deadly consequences.Was she giving people the license to go out there and indulge in wild sex and expect those benefits?I am not reviewing her book but making a point about her utterances in public.Soon,Iam starting an online radio talk show to address such dangerous concepts, uttrances and messages.Look out for "Dr Mother Love:Killing all with love".It will be all about Relationship Matters!In a short time you can join us at [...]
