Self Validation Not Worth Loving A Loser

Posted Jan 25, 2007 by Kevin Walker

Updated Jan 25, 2007 at 12:06 PM

In Better Single Than Sorry, author Jen Schefft uses humor and some common sense to help women come to the realization that wanting a man in your life is not worth settling. Being alone is far better than being with a loser, or someone’s whose needs you have to cater to constantly, or someone who can only talk about football. And so on. As the book flap says: “Does being alone mean you’re doomed to be miserable forever? Definitely not!” Consider this book therapy for a “relationship obsessed” society.

On the fiction front, Alex Espinoza - a Mexican native now living in Southern California - has released his first novel, Still Water Saints, which follows the fortunes of the a small, mostly Latino town on the outskirts of Los Angeles called Agua Mansa. Kirkus Review calls the novel “a well-crafted collection of vignettes, neatly stitched together.”