There’s been buzz about this book called “He’s Just Not That Into You” (a phrase brought to America by Sex and the City), so I picked it up last week. A few friends of mine and I were talking about it and how so many of our girlfriends needed to read it. I figured if I was going to pass it along as advice I probably ought to read it myself - which I did - it in about 10 minutes.

The best parts exist in the table of contents alone (or viewable via the “Look Inside” pages on Amazon), making it almost unneccesarry to read any further. I did anyway. I chuckled a few times at the fact that via the “Dear Abby” format, he ranked on the folks soliciting him for advice in the same snide way that I might. The co-author had more tender insightful back-up to his responses, my socks weren’t knocked off. Alright, there were a few tips inside we all needed to take, but whatever. Maybe they’ll write a companion book and explain to men how playing hard-to-get can quickly translate into too-much-trouble-forget-about-it for women. Just a thought. I could probably come up with more, given time.

Here are the chapter titles, they should save you a few bucks:

~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He’s Not Asking You Out
~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He’s Not Calling You
~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He’s Not Dating You
~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He’s Not Having Sex with You
~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He’s Having Sex with Someone Else
~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He Only Wants to See You When He’s Drunk
~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He Doesn’t Want to Marry You
~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He’s Breaking Up with You
~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He’s Disappeared on You
~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He’s Married (and Other Insane Variations of Being Unavailable)
~ He’s Just Not That Into You If He’s a Slefish Jerk, a Bully, or a Really Big Freak

Giddy up.

Day 3 of not smoking, day 2 of the sniffles and day 1 of the rest of my life (isn’t it always day 1?).