The Single Girl's Guide to Meeting European Men [Paperback]

Katherine Chloé Cahoon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2010

A one-of-a-kind guide packed with road-tested tips for meeting European men—whether you’re looking for love, lust, or anything in between.

In The Single Girl’s Guide to Meeting European Men, Katherine Chloé Cahoon offers forty proven tips for meeting and interacting with European men, and then guides readers through the hottest man-meeting spots in Europe, country by country—including addresses, phone numbers, and websites of establishments where single girls have the best chance of meeting Europe’s hottest males.

Whether prowling for a spontaneous European fling or scouting for Mr. Love-of-Your-Life, you’ll find that Cahoon’s tips—which work on men at home, too—take into account the various approaches, boundaries, and goals you may have for dating during your European foray. She also outlines the traits of men from various European countries, and gives advice ranging from how to stay safe while meeting them to how to deal with beaus back home who may complicate an amorous European getaway.

Filled with sexy and often hilarious real-life stories from each country, The Single Girl’s Guide will make your time in Europe an exciting, man-filled adventure.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

While enrolled at Vanderbilt University, Katherine Chloé Cahoon spent summers studying in Europe. Each fall her girlfriends wanted to know about the European men she had met, so she started writing. The result of her efforts became this guide. Cahoon is currently working on the screenplay of the book, which producers refer to as Sex and the City meets Love Actually in the hot spots of Europe.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press; First Edition edition (October 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1608320588
• ISBN-13: 978-1608320585
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 0.6 x 5.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #957,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #97 in Books > Travel > Specialty Travel > Solo Travel

More About the Author

While enrolled at Vanderbilt University, Katherine Chloé Cahoon spent summers studying in Europe. Each fall when she returned to school her girlfriends wanted to know about the European men she had met, so she started writing. This guide was the result of her efforts. Cahoon is currently working with producers on the screenplay of the book, which they refer to as Sex and the City meets Love Actually in the hot spots of Europe.

See other humorous, informative, short videos about Katherine's book at http://tiny.cc/93qki

www.MeetingEuropeanMen.com

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

85 of 100 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Love and Feminism in 21st Century Europe: A Modernist Diatribe Against American Loneliness October 22, 2010

By Literatus

Format:Paperback

Miss Cahoon, we thank you for ending centuries of needless struggles. The modern woman can finally, like the modern man before her, benefit from the wisdom of the Enlightenment to improve every day life. "The Single Girl's Guide to Meeting European Men" is a triumph of heart, soul and the kind of modern consciousness that can only come from a generation that was raised on the Information Superhighway. That's right; the Internet goes by names other than Web 2.0.

Within these precious pages lie dormant a sleeping beast that, once released, promises to ravage the doldrums of a woman's happenstance existence, revealing the goddess beneath every girl. Miss Cahoon explains the truth behind this and others of the world's most ancient mysteries by starting at the reader's level and carefully spoon feeding them her helpful secrets that, if taken in larger quantities, would surely result in nothing less than a massive hemorrhaging of the medulla oblongata. Miss Cahoon is kind to her ignorant reader like a Swedish hostel manager might be kind to a single American girl who thinks Sweden is a rustic province of Wales and can't for the life of her remember if she thought to tell her family she'd be abroad for a few weeks. Kind like an Italian man who, before just now, has never seen an aloof, trusting American girl with skinny jeans and no sense of time or direction. Miss Cahoon knows that the modern, career-driven, liberated Superwoman can't afford to lose the great battle against loneliness or settling for an American lover, and gracefully forgives her reader for suggesting that there is a difference between equality and doing something "empowered" like wandering into Amsterdam alone past midnight hoping to catch a ride to the nearest free hotel because you left your Hello Kitty wallet on the train from Salzburg.

The narrative style of this challenging and provoking foray into modern feminism is reminiscent of a hot tub with a broken temperature control. As you ease into the warm water, you grow comfortable with the heat and barely notice as the tub spirals to temperatures upwards of 130 degrees fahrenheit. Likewise, this book gingerly shakes the very foundations of the modern reader's assumptions about the work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton before the reader even realizes they are doing anything more than relaxing by the fire with a comfortable, friendly and often humorous romp and an equally comfortable Frenchman whose mother is sleeping in a bedroom three doors down.

For those ladies that feel lost in Europe's dating scene as a single, defenseless American female with absolutely zero working knowledge of any language but English, take solace in this book's allegorical sensibilities. Much like the lost lady in Europe, the reader may find themselves wandering through the rustic countryside that is "The Single Girl's Guide to Meeting European Men" without a clue as to what is being said around them. This has less to do with the book's baffling structure and lack of meaningful advice and more to do with its approach to relating with its reader. Miss Cahoon knows that the liberated woman of the Google era doesn't need a handy list of safety tips for traveling abroad without a companion, but rather is looking for someone that knows what it's like to be alone. By alienating the reader from start to finish, this book allegorizes the very experience of reading it, and in doing so gives the reader first-hand experience in feeling alone in a foreign land. Such experience is invaluable for all women who wish to travel alone to Belfast and make it with a confused and angry IRA foot soldier. This metafictional approach to the groundless advice genre is sure to revolutionize the way we learn in the contemporary world of the World Wide Web.

Hands down, this book is a must-read for men and women alike. Don't miss an opportunity to read a book that in just a few short hours can do more for the women's liberation movement than the last hundred years combined.

44 of 51 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars So good I might switch teams! October 22, 2010

By Curious

Format:Paperback

I'm a guy. I had absolutely no interest in this book, but my wife did. After she read it, she told me it was the greatest piece of 21st century literature. Naturally, I dismissed the notion of a manual to pick up men actually being a worthwhile read, but she insisted, so I gave it a shot. Imagine my surprise when I went to get a drink and saw that I had been reading for 9 hours straight! It was such a compelling page-turner that I somehow unwittingly finished the whole book and convinced myself to start over twice! Never in the course of human history has so much been owed by so many to one author. There are, as advertised, great tips for getting yourself in with some Euro spice, but they feel like an extra gift included with the deftly woven narrative. I only regret that I fell so in love with this book that now I, too, want to fly to Berlin and try to land one of the beautiful young men so well-described in these pages. My wife regrets it, too, but you won't! Read this book today!

39 of 46 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb! October 23, 2010

By Nathan I Wilson

Format:Paperback

As a European man, I can assure you ladies, this book will indeed help you meet me.