Oh, Solo Mia! : The Hip Chick's Guide to Fun for One [Paperback]

Wendy Burt (Author), Erin Kindberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2001

Oh, Solo Mia is the essential guide for all women in search of ideas for entertaining themselves after wearing out the resources of the neighborhood Blockbuster. Oh, Solo Mia offers more than 100 creative ideas with attitude for swinging single chicks. Inspirations range from the cheap and tame to the chi-chi and daring, and all are guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment for girls (of all ages) who just wanna have fun!

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

As Cyndi Lauper succinctly put it in the early '80s, "Girls just wanna have fun!" In Oh, Solo Mia!, you'll find more than 100 ideas and inspirations for doing just that. From the mild to the wild and from the budget-conscious to the chichi, you'll have a blast reading about the many activities savvy solo chicks can do on their own. Here's just a sampling of the many fabulous and funky ideas inside:

• A star is born--host your own wild and crazy public access TV show
• Sneak into a college lecture and gawk at the cuties while expanding your intellectual horizons
• Jump feet first into everyone's greatest fear--tandem skydiving
• Attend a wine tasting and learn there's more to life than screw tops

About the Author

Erin Kindberg is a freelance writer living in Denver.

Wendy Burt is a freelance writer living in Colorado Springs and the founder of Just CAWS (Creative Alliance for Women's Support).

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (March 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809297825
• ISBN-13: 978-0809297825
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,852,804 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A smile and a springboard of inspiration is guaranteed, August 29, 2001

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Linda Linguvic (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oh, Solo Mia! : The Hip Chick's Guide to Fun for One (Paperback)

This is a fun book written by two witty thirty-something gals, Wendy
Burt and Erin Kindberg who appropriately have subtitled it "The
Hip Chick's guide to Fun for One." I smiled when I saw the bright
pink cover and snappy illustration, I smiled when I read the table of
contents, and I just kept smiling as I read through it. Each of the
125 chapters, that are less than two pages long, includes an idea that
a single woman can do alone. All of them encourage creativity and
include such diverse activities as volunteering in an animal shelter,
skydiving, learning to brew home-made beer, taking a road trip in a
convertible, and even crashing a wedding reception. Each idea is
presented with humor, followed by a short list of places to go for
more information, including appropriate websites.

The book, of course,
does more than just give ideas. It says something about the authors
themselves. These are women who enjoy their lives and are always on
the lookout for something interesting to do. And even though they
often humorously refer to the possibility of meeting some hunky guy
while learning to fly or going to a town meeting, this is somehow just
a footnote to the idea of the activity itself. There's encouragement
to take courses, learn a new skills, help the needy, and open your
eyes to the pleasures of just plain living. It's upbeat all the way. I
read the book all the way through but it can also be read by just
leafing though it or choosing a chapter at random. But however you
read it, I can guarantee it will make you smile as well as act as a
springboard to further inspiration. Recommended.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not just for solo chicks, December 1, 2003

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Niquey (Royal Oak, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oh, Solo Mia! : The Hip Chick's Guide to Fun for One (Paperback)

I'm married and bought this book for some ideas on what to do while my husband is out of town on business trips or playing weekend warrior. I disagree with the last review; I think the whole idea for the book (we'll give you the ideas, you plan it out) is right on. After all, isn't it supposed to be about getting out of the house and into life? Nor do I agree with the sentiment that going to town hall meetings are "not fun at all." Maybe getting involved with city politics isn't your idea of a good time, but what's one woman's junk is another woman's treasure. Overall, a very good read with even better ideas.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Women on fire!, May 29, 2001

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Rebecca Brown "rebeccasreads" (Clallam Bay, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oh, Solo Mia! : The Hip Chick's Guide to Fun for One (Paperback)

Bored? Nothing to do? Tired of yet another weekend painting your toenails & renting videos? Get a copy of Wendy & Erin's elegant book & work your way through all the mayhem & mangled metaphors ~ even if you don't leave your apartment, you'll have had one helluva fun read!

Do catch my eInterview with this lively pair of hip chicks as they do more for the demise of marriage than a bus load of divorce lawyers. This book is packed with ideas for solo adventures ranging from the mild to the wild.

Caution: just because one of these hip chicks is the daughter of a preacherman, does not mean the language is biblical, far from it! This dynamic duo have a keen & immodest sense of the absurd, the breathless & the energetic.

For anyone whose palette has been coated over with the monotony of bureaucracy & cramped city living. Go get 'em, girls!