Falling for Me: How I Hung Curtains, Learned to Cook, Traveled to Seville, and Fell in Love Paperback – October 11, 2011

An inspirational little book -- I thought the author used just the right combo of humor and self-reflection. I felt challenged to look at my choices, my self-perception, and my plans for the future. I recommend this book to anyone who might be struggling with loneliness as a single person.

I'm not sure I know anyone that can say they haven't struggled, or at least questioned if their life is where they thought it would or should be at some given point in time. There always seems to be the ever petulant feeling that the roadmap you planned for your life (or society programmed you to plan) doesn't match where you think it should be.Anna David's pivotal moment came when she was on the verge of a major meltdown and became captivated by the pages of Sex & the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown in a NYC bookstore. Being single wasn't the end all...timeless advice from this 1960's book. This motivated Anna to apply age old advice, with a modern day girl spin to find love.Throughout the book, the author depicts her most intimate thoughts, questionable choices, actions and vulnerabilities. It was uncannily comforting to feel as if this stranger was describing so many of my own life experiences. It was like reading chapters out of my own story.The wit, inner-banter and vulnerability eloquently detailed by Anna provides an outlet for self awareness and entertainment, whether you're a single girl of all ages or married woman with or without children. And the perfect and insightful resource for the curious male.My 'Falling for Me' experience provided me with what a book hasn't in a very long time... inspiration and camaraderie. The universal message lets you know that whether it's something small or something that scares you to the core, those are the things that guide on the ultimate quest to finding love...in yourself.Nicely done Anna David.

Great writers are exhibitionists, and in "Falling for Me" Anna David has become both. The premise of the book has Ms. David following the advice of "Sex and the Single Girl" by Helen Gurley Brown in an attempt to change her life. In each chapter we follow Ms. David she goes on Brown-inspired adventures: Wind-Surfing, cooking, decorating her apartment, learning to apply makeup, assembling a wardrobe, learning French, taking a pottery class, traveling alone, and meeting eligible men. Anna David's self-deprecating writing style makes for a largely fun book to read. This book also marks a noticeable growth in her already solid writing skills as she shares some painful moments with her readers at key points in the book. For example the first chapter features ugly revelations about herself, her character, and how she feared growing old alone. This is a hell of an admission from someone who makes a living as a "relationships expert", yet can't get her own love life off the ground. The book weaves this theme throughout, and we get to see her get a grip on who she really is. Then we watch as she evolves as she actively works to allow herself to grow. "Falling for Me" is a great book for men and women. It's about getting past the worst enemy in your life - yourself, and discovering the rest of your life. It's not preachy, it's not high-brow psycho-babble, it's straight, humorous, bittersweet memoir from Anna David. The book avoids cliché and is honestly written and that's the highest compliment I can make about any book. Great gift idea too .

Anna David is my favorite author. I loved her other books, Party Girl, Bought,and Reality Matters.I had to take a 3 hour train ride today, and I read the entire book , Falling For Me.Unlike Anna's other books which were sexy, fun , and exciting to read. This book was a personal memoir.Anna was willing to share so much of personal life with us, the reader in this book that I could not put it down.I know that Anna is, a relationship expert, and thanks to Social Networking I know that she is also Single.I felt it was none of my business why she was not married.But Anna wrote this book and explained all of this, her pain, her struggles, her mistakes. Then finally this life changing decision to follow Helen Gurley Brown's example to live her life by.Anna always cuts through the fog of romance to answer the basic questions. We cannot be in love with a partner unless we fall in love with ourselves.Falling For Me is speaking to me on a deeply personal level. I am age 46, single, with a fear of dying alone. I have difficulty leaving my own comfort zone. I am going to try to learn from Anna's book, Falling For Me to help make vital changes in my own personal life.This book had a deep effect on me. I highly recommend it.AnthonyNYC

I have been a fan of Anna David's previous works, "Party Girl", "Bought" and "Reality Matters". So, I was really looking forward to reading "Falling For Me".This book takes a look as Anna starts on a journey of reinventing her own life. Using Helen Gurley Brown's "Sex And The Single GIrl" as a roadmap, Anna takes on some of life's challenges. I found her journey to be sweet and thoughtful as well as some comedy sprinked in.I think this is Anna's best work to date. I enjoyed her first-person conversational style. To me, it felt like a glimpse into someone's journal. I found myself rooting for Anna as she set forth on these challenges. And, who hasn't been in her place when falling in love. And, if you're not careful, you might just learn some valuable life lessons. I know I sure did.This is one book I may have to read again, since I may have missed the more subtle references.So, if you're a fan of Anna's previous works, or just a fan of a really well thought out and well written story, then this is the book for you. Very highly recommended.

Some good writing at times, occasionally sharp and funny, but my goodness it does go on and on at times. The long and elaborated anecdotes on random stuff like pottery classes, for instance, begin to grate after a while. Strangely self-centred and too wordy by more than half. The dating stories start off quite well but by the end even this is pedestrian fodder. This long-windedness often seems the way of some American writers; one wonders if they have too much time on their hands. By the last 1/3 of the book it was basically long, dull and seemingly pointless rambling, and I bade farewell.