MWF Seeking BFF - Rachel Bertsche

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Title: MWF Seeking BFF
Author: Rachel Bertsche
Genre: Memoir, Non-fiction
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: 349
Date read: April 2014

When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she's thrilled to finally share a zip code with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, she realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs - in New York and San Francisco and Boston and Washington, D.C. Still, in her adopted hometown, there's no one to call at the last minute for girl talk over brunch or a reality-TV marathon over a bottle of wine. Taking matters into her own hands, Bertsche develops a plan: Meeting people everywhere from improv class to friend rental websites, she'll go on fifty-two friend-dates, one per week for a year, in hopes of meeting her new Best Friend Forever.

One of the most inspirational books I've read since Gretchen Rubin's "The Happiness Project". I didn't really have any idea what to expect when I started reading it, but I ended up LOVING it, and finished it in just two days.

Rachel Bertsche sounds like an awesome person, and one I'd enjoy getting together with IRL, so I really enjoyed reading about her search for friends, feeling like I could live vicariously through her.

At the end of the book, Rachel Bertsche has a section on "Recommended Reading", and while I'll definitely have to check out some of her recommendations (it would seem like our taste in books mesh quite well - and she recommended The Baby-Sitter's Club!!! That's friend-material right there! ;) ), what I loved most was her section on "Books whose authors I'd like to have as friends" (from memory). What a cute idea :) One of the authors listed was Gretchen Rubin, who'd definitely also be on my list.

And after reading this book, I think I would have to add Rachel Bertsche herself to that list as well.

Lovely, happy-making book :)