Daring to Date Again: A Memoir
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Ranging from Montclair, New Jersey to Harare, Zimbabwe, Daring to Date Again: A Memoir is a compelling, often racy memoir of one woman’s late-life adventures with sex and dating in the modern world. As she rollicks (and bawls) her way through dozens of relationships, Evans tackles some touchy topics with humor and insight: the morality of dating married men, whether women over sixty should consider having children, what age difference is too much, and more. Daring, frank, and a little bit nutty, Daring to Date Again is a story about what happens when a lonely, sex-starved sixty-year-old woman decides to put herself on the market again—but on her own terms.
Ann Anderson Evans
or years in Italy, Spain, France, Israel, Germany, and Greece. These experiences transformed her and figure in many of her stories. Along the way, in one way or another, she learned to speak six languages. Ann enjoys her job teaching freshman writing at Montclair State University where she is also a Fellow in a group introducing Contemplative Pedagogy practices to universities around the country. Her short stories have been published in the literary press: Phantasmagoria, Under The Sun, and Phoebe. Her poetry has been published in a local publication, Offerings 2. An academic essay Beyond Grammar: Linguistics in Language and Writing Courses was published in the Duke University journal, Pedagogy. She excels in public speaking and has presented at academic conferences and done well received public readings of her work. Her website and blog are at www.annandersonevans.com. Another blog, www.linguisticsintheclassroom.com, proposes to remake the writing classroom. She is on Facebook (Fan and personal pages), LinkedIn (Ann Anderson Evans), and Twitter (Ann Anderson Evans, @annwriter) An audio version of the first two chapters of Searching for the Unicorn is available on her website, and she is working with a sound engineer to record the whole book for audio publication.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daring to Date Again: A Memoir is a sassy internet dating memoir with an attitude, and comes from a woman who offers tales of romantic ventures in cyberspace and how they led to adventure and changes in her life.Before she re-entered the dating world, Ann Evans was celibate for twelve years and in her sixties - and not contemplating becoming sexually active. But sexual activity isn't the heart of this memoir: hers is a fun story of a search for love using the internet circles, and as such, it provides a story of overcoming two divorces to re-enter the world of romance.One doesn't expect wit along with the wisdom, but it's there. What's also unexpected is the spirit of adventure in a sixty-something who is willing to travel halfway across the world to Zimbabwe to meet an internet contact - but it's there, too. Most surprising of all is the quest for sexuality in older years: something few dating books even discuss. The result is best viewed as a rollicking train ride that leads to a few wrecks, excitement, and a lot of fun.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Having just turned 60 myself and only married (this time) for almost five years, I was intrigued by the idea of Ann’s memoir. After 12 celibate years, she is ready for anything that will appease the hunger. To put it bluntly, she’s as horny as an 18-year-old boy How does a woman of our age go about dating in the early years of the 21st century? It’s a whole different world out there (I knew my newish husband from work). And what about sex? Is it as available as television, movies, etc. make it out to be? Where do women of certain ages go to meet men? Is Internet dating as scary as it seems? Ann’s memoir seems to answer all these questions, but the answers are not rules or guides for single women; the book is Ann telling the reader her experiences. I would never classify this book as self-help (unless it’s to gain confidence that there is sex avaialable.)Get ready to laugh, cry and enjoy all the emotions in between. Ann’s first adventure to conquer the sexual gnawing is with a guy Larry, who turns out to be a transvestite. Ann doesn’t care about that, but she is looking for a male with male longings. Ann dates many, many men. So many, by the end of the book, I couldn’t keep them all straight. I’ve been so worried about stalkers I would never allow a virtual stranger into my home, much less my bed. Maybe it’s because Ann is a confident woman. I loved Chapter 13, Strategy. She makes a chart that will help guide her through the e-mails and flirts from the Internet. There are three columns: Indispensable, pro, and con. That list serves her well, until she meets Guy.I was starting to get a little bored with the whole dating/sleeping around when Ann and Guy connect. I was astounded that Ann went to Zimbabwe to spend some time Guy. But that put the zip back into the story.I enjoyed Ann’s voice; it was like a best friend/sister talking to me, telling me her adventures. I felt as if I was dating again vicariously through Ann, and all I can say, is please God, never let me single and horny again.I give Daring to Date Again 5 out of 5 stars.