RECOMMEND

1) to present as worthy
2) to make desirable or attractive

Back in June I made my third “big girl purchase” — a car. And while I will be the first person to admit I am obsessed with her (yes, Betty White), it may come as a surprise that I do not drive to work. Call me crazy, right?!
 

Wrong. I seriously treasure my bus ride time. I covet my 20ish minute commute, two times a day, five days a week. For the 20 minutes that I am stranded in the germ tube, I get some quality “me time” in for reviewing work emails, quick facebook stalking, groupon hunting, jamming out, or some meditation. But the activity I look forward to the most is reading. 

When it comes to good books, I love getting recommendations from friends, family, and co-wokers. I look forward to trading books with my cousin whenever I see her for visits and discussing when we swap again. But occasionally, I find myself in a bind… I have nothing in my mental reading queue (or worse…the library is standing me up!) and I am entering the reading “danger zone” (you know what I’m talking about, the final ten or so pages that you read the slowest because you are savoring your last moments with the characters). When desperate times call for desperate measures I do what every perpetual bus rider hates — I spy.

Generally these efforts are fruitless, as my bus-mates and I clearly don’t share much in common in the literature category (or everyone reads their Kindle which makes spying impossible). But on a rare occasion, I spy a gem. 

The gem I just finished reading is “MWF seeking BFF” and I would love to recommend it to you. This book chronicles Rachel Bertsche as she finds herself feeling friendless in the Windy City. When she realizes that her new married life is missing something, she resolves to spend one year making new friends. She re-tells the (insert: awkward, hilarious, touching, and heart-warming) stories of the fifty-two friend-dates she experiences (one per week for a year), as she searches for her new BFF. She totally hooks nerd-girls like me with her blend of personal account and social/psychological research as she examines the question: why will women happily announce they need a man but are embarrassed to admit they need a BFF?
 

This book as a good one, and although I had to return my copy to the library (actually, my loving sister returned it for me!) take this as me passing my copy of the book on to you. 

While we are at it, do you have something that you…

RECOMMEND?

ps. Big shout out to my cherished friends. Reading this book made me so thankful for all of you and pushed me to work harder in all of my friendships. Bless you for all of you have done for me and I very much look forward to all we have in store.