The year of yes : the true story of a girl, a few hundred dates, and fate.
by Headley, Maria Dahvana

Now this is one of those books where a cute dumb blonde is unable to find love and hence goes sleeping around / dating with every moving thing in the town. Right from Cab drivers to tram drivers to homeless vagabonds to actors, writers, old retired men, Lesbians, Gays, and whatever other kinds there are.

The book is entertaining in a strange way that you get to see some one else's life standing from the sidelines. Though her sexual and other exploits are fairly adventurous, I wouldn't be tempted to go so far to get whatever freakish pleasure she got by dating around so many guys to find "TRUE LOVE". It gives a nice picture of the Big city night life (the book is set in New York), if you are interested in that sort of thing.

At times it just appears to weird to be true, and now I don't remember whether it was non fiction/ based on her real experiences or if it was just pure fiction. Either way the book is worth a read, it is indeed entertaining but falls somewhat short of the standard set by books like "Does my bum look big in this" which are of similar nature.

Towards the end after dating every possible candidate on New York city, when Maria finds her so called "true love" it is a divorcee, a Pulitzer prize winning writer whom she meets after a long Gap. Given that she devotes so many pages to other men, I would have preferred to know more about this final guy and whether it did actually work out for her with the writer, her so called "True Love". This detail is actually missing as the books ends on a note and maybe she wants us to assume like the endings in typical Bollywood movies... "They married and they lived happily ever after"

Overall, the book is entertaining and has decent humor in its pages, reading it in Public trains and buses, I have been stared at more than a couple of times having burst out laughing loudly while engrossed in it. But finally I wouldn't buy it, I buy only those books at full price which can be read over and over again, or which are of enduring value. IMHO, this book does not meet that criteria, its not worth buying, though it can definitely be read once. (For the uninitiated IMHO means "in my humble opinion")