Review: Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match by Amy Webb

Title: Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match

Author: Amy Webb

Publisher: Dutton Adult

Pub date: 1/31/13

Source: Edelweiss






Summary from Goodreads:

Forty million people date online each year. Most don’t find true love. Thanks to Data, a Love Story, their odds just got a whole lot better.

Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match is a lively, thought-provoking memoir about how one woman “gamed” the world of online dating—and met her eventual husband.

My thoughts/review:

I found out about this book from Oprah magazine. I'm glad I found it.This was really good. Even though I knew the happy ending was coming, I was still rooting for Amy throughout the story. She felt like a friend talking about her many dating woes until she found her husband. This was fabulous. I laughed and almost cried. My favorite parts were the bad dates and when she met her husband. The dates were so terrible that they were funny. I was reading and talking back to the book. That's when you know a book is truly good.

Review: Where's the Nearest Day Spa? Renewing the Anxious Heart by Emily Smith

Title: Where's the Nearest Day Spa? Renewing the Anxious Heart

Author: Emily Smith

Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.

Pub Date: 7/1/2012










Summary from Goodreads & Amazon:

Where’s the Nearest Day Spa? Renewing the Anxious Heart offers a fresh perspective on worries and fears. Short, easy-to-read chapters—overflowing with humor and insightful Bible-based encouragement—will inspire a new outlook, as you begin to embrace the spiritual and emotional R&R that only the heavenly Father provides.

My thoughts/review:
   This book is full of great biblical advice on anxiety and worry. The advice is don't worry. This is great for nervous people that need a little reminder every now and then. It is a fast read with questions at the end of each chapter with space for notes to answer the questions. The beginning of chapter each is pretty funny. She ties in her spa experiences to the bible verses in each chapter. The colors of the book are calming with the light blues and flowers. This book would be great for a women's bible study group or solo bible study.