The Between Boyfriends Book

Author: Cindy Chupack
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429972025
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
The Between Boyfriends Book is an honest, hilarious look at the world of dating--and not dating--that will have fans rushing back for multiple copies to press on the psychic wounds of their afflicted friends. Chupack not only puts voice to the cheerful brutality that shapes young women's love lives, but creates bonus coinages to describe instantly recognizable dating tropes, such as: * "sexual sorbet": the first person you sleep with after a breakup to remove the taste of a bad relationship * "lone rangered": to have had a relationship end with no goodbye, no answers, just the vague feelings you have no idea who that man was * "premature 'we'jaculation": a common dating dysfunction where one member of the couple starts using "we" before the other is ready.

Between Boyfriends

Author: Sarka-Jonae Miller
Publisher: Booktrope Editions
ISBN: 9781620151822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
For anyone whose ever had their heart broken comes a hilarious and award-winning story of living life, finding love, and growing up...but not necessarily in that order. At first glance, twenty-one-year-old Jan Weston has it all: a gorgeous boyfriend, fun friends, and wealthy parents who take care of all those pesky credit card bills. Then her boyfriend dumps her, her friendships fall apart, and her parents cut her off. Suddenly without money, without a man, and without a plan, it's time for Jan to grow up.

Rent a Boyfriend

Author: Gloria Chao
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534462457
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets The Farewell in this incisive romantic comedy about a college student who hires a fake boyfriend to appease her traditional Taiwanese parents, to disastrous results, from the acclaimed author of American Panda. Chloe Wang is nervous to introduce her parents to her boyfriend, because the truth is, she hasn’t met him yet either. She hired him from Rent for Your ’Rents, a company specializing in providing fake boyfriends trained to impress even the most traditional Asian parents. Drew Chan’s passion is art, but after his parents cut him off for dropping out of college to pursue his dreams, he became a Rent for Your ’Rents employee to keep a roof over his head. Luckily, learning protocols like “Type C parents prefer quiet, kind, zero-PDA gestures” comes naturally to him. When Chloe rents Drew, the mission is simple: convince her parents fake Drew is worthy of their approval so they’ll stop pressuring her to accept a proposal from Hongbo, the wealthiest (and slimiest) young bachelor in their tight-knit Asian American community. But when Chloe starts to fall for the real Drew—who, unlike his fake persona, is definitely not ’rent-worthy—her carefully curated life begins to unravel. Can she figure out what she wants before she loses everything?

Between Boyfriends

Author: Michael Salvatore
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 0758246838
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Having lived the single life for four years since a relationship gone wrong, gay Italian Catholic soap opera producer Steven Ferrante finally strikes out to find love again. A first novel. Original.

100 Boyfriends

Author: Brontez Purnell
Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374722471
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and Pink News' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. "This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense." —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "I loved this book—raunchy, irreverent, deliberate, sexy, angry, and tender, in its own way." —Roxane Gay An irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure—from dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama—Purnell’s characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke, and queer. In spite of it—or perhaps because of it—they shine. Armed with a deadpan wit, Purnell finds humor in even the darkest of nadirs with the peerless zeal, insight, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. Together, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within 100 Boyfriends are an inimitable tour of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller, as fearless as he is human.

The Longest Date

Author: Cindy Chupack
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698151410
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
The bestselling author of The Between Boyfriends Book and an award-winning writer for Sex and the City and Modern Family takes a hilarious, heartbreaking look at marriage Cindy Chupack has spent much of her adult life writing about dating and relationships for several hit TV series and as a sex columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine. At the age of thirty-nine, she finally found The One—and a wealth of new material. Marriage, Cindy discovered, was more of an adventure than she ever imagined, and in this collection of essays she deftly examines the comedy and cringe-worthy aspects of matrimony. Soulful yet self-deprecating, The Longest Date recounts her first marriage (he was gay) and the meeting of Husband No. 2, Ian. After the courtship and ceremony, both Cindy and Ian realized that happily ever after takes some practice, and near constant negotiation over everyday matters like cooking, sex, holidays, monogamy, and houseguests. The Longest Date takes a serious turn when it comes to infertility. The Longest Date is the perfect companion for anyone navigating a serious relationship, be it newlyweds or couples moving in that direction.

Boyfriends with Girlfriends

Author: Alex Sanchez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442419903
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Sergio is bisexual, but his only real relationship was with a girl. Lance has always known he was gay, but he’s never had a real boyfriend. When the two of them meet, they have an instant connection—but will it be enough to overcome their differences? Allie’s been in a relationship with a guy for the last two years—but when she meets Kimiko, she can’t get her out of her mind. Does this mean she’s gay? Or bi? Kimiko, falling hard for Allie, is willing to stick around and help Allie figure it out. Boyfriends with Girlfriends is Alex Sanchez at his best, writing with a sensitive hand to portray four very real teens striving to find their places in the world—and with each other.

My Next Book Boyfriend (Book Boyfriend #1)

Author: Vicki Green
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537797878
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A girl can't have too many Imagination can turn into reality when you least expect it Rylie Clark's life is happy. She loves her best friend, her job, and a good romance story. She lives in her dream world, being taken away to another place, another time. Her list of book boyfriends is a mile long. It grows almost daily but she loves them. Every. Single. One. Being the owner of a coffee shop is no easy task when you're a bit of a klutz and are so shy you can't form a coherent sentence when speaking to a guy. Every day is a new adventure in the land of hopeless romantics and the book boyfriends who enter her life. Literally. Come find out what happens when her next book boyfriend walks into her coffee shop. *This is intended for 18+ readers due to adult language and situations.

The Between Boyfriends Book

Author: Cindy Chupack
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312309031
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
In this collection of cautiously hopeful essays, one of the Emmy Award-winning executive producers of HBO's "Sex and the City" takes a hilarious look at love, dating, and the state of being single.

Bookish Boyfriends

Author: Tiffany Schmidt
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683352661
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
A teenage rabid romance reader finds herself in her own version of Pride & Prejudice in this sweet and swoony series opener. Boys are so much better in books. At least according to Merrilee Campbell, fifteen, who thinks real-life chivalry is dead and there’d be nothing more romantic than having a guy woo her like the heroes in classic stories. Then she, her best friend, Eliza, and her younger sister, Rory, transfer to Reginald R. Hero Prep—where all the boys look like they’ve stepped off the pages of a romance novel. Merri can hardly walk across the quad without running into someone who reminds her of Romeo. When the brooding and complicated Monroe Stratford scales Merri’s trellis in an effort to make her his, she thinks she might be Juliet incarnate. But as she works her way through her literature curriculum under the guidance of an enigmatic teacher, Merri’s tale begins to unfold in ways she couldn’t have imagined. Merri soon realizes that only she is in charge of her story. And it is a truth universally acknowledged that first impressions can be deceiving . . . “Schmidt ably captures the discombobulation and turn-on-a-dime emotions experienced by many early teens, and surrounds Merri with a believable cast of supporting characters. This contemporary rom-com series starter is a fun introduction to classics for middle-grade readers and younger YAs, wittily making old stories new again.” ?Booklist, starred review “Schmidt unapologetically places romance, and more romance, at the heart of this YA novel for younger teens . . . Ultimately Schmidt pits Romeo against a Mr. Darcy type in this romantic comedy (complete with Bridget Jones-like mishaps), whose heroine must open herself to the idea that the boy she least expects may turn out to be her real romantic hero.” —Publishers Weekly “This meshing of romantic classics and modern-day relationships is over-the-top good fun for tween romantics.” —Kirkus Reviews