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The Early Reviews are Good!!!

08 Tuesday Dec 2015

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It’s out finally! And the early reviews are good!

TAYLOR JONES SAYS: In Only Tim Sent Flowers by George Kaplan, Mary Louise (aka Tookie, although she doesn’t like the nickname) is a young woman with Asperger’s Syndrome, who is obsessed with men and having sex. The story starts out when Tookie is eighteen in 1969. Unhappy with her first boyfriend, who is devoted to her, she sheds him and starts hunting for someone more to her liking. Not especially pretty, and social awkward due to her Asperger’s, she gallops through men like wild horses on stampede. Believing sex is all she has to offer, she begins to study techniques and fully embraces the free love mentality of the sixties. But what she really wants isn’t a non-stop series of one-night stands, it’s a man who will love her for herself and give her the daughter she craves.

I was frankly amazed that Kaplan was able to pen such a realistic, flawed, human, and three-dimensional character who is a female, as that kind of depth in female characters is rare in male authors. You can’t help but empathize with this poor mixed-up girl, who is really very sweet. I give the book 4.4 Stars.

REGAN MURPHY SAYS: Only Tim Sent Flowers by George Kaplan is the story of a young woman who suffers from undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome. Tookie, whose real name is Mary Louise, is raised by overprotective parents who know there is something wrong with her, but they are sure just want it is. She obviously isn’t retarded because she is very, very smart. But she is very socially awkward. Deciding that she isn’t pretty enough to attract men without some added appeal, she begins studying sex techniques, becoming an expert at oral sex. Constantly on the prowl for Mr. Right, Tookie cuts a swath through all her male coworkers, single or married, going easily from job to job and man to man, all the time looking for love with all the wrong people. While in the background, Tookie’s first boyfriend, the only man who truly loves her, keeps waiting for her to come around and see the light.

Only Tim Sent Flowers is a heart-warning, heart-breaking, realistic story of an endearing misfit, struggling to fit in with a world that doesn’t understand those of us who deviate from the norm, whether by choice or disease, and doesn’t really want to. Kaplan handled the subject with both compassion and sensitivity. Bravo. I’m giving Only Tim Sent Flowers 4.6 Stars.

Read the first chapter here: 2x6_bookmark - side 2

 

Are Office Hook Ups Responsible for Rising Syphilis Rate?

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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What a coincidence! No sooner do I finish reading a pre-Valentine’s Day testament to hooking up at work are my eyes drawn to a headline in the New York Post, “Mystery Behind Rising Syphilis Rates in City.” Could the two be connected? I forget what I was searching when I stumbled across Andrea Peyser’s paeon to office fraternization, but her first paragraph most definitely caught my eye: “I sing the praises of the office hookup. Where else but in the shadow of the copy machine can one meet a lover or a candidate for a drunken one-night stand who’s likely to have been drug-tested, vetted for a criminal record and checked for gnarly, communicable diseases?”

The only direct experience I have had with office romance was indirect in that it was two married-to-other-people co-workers who were doing the dirty dance behind the Data General minicomputer in the unhinged 1970s. He was not only her supervisor but several other women’s as well and that is where the problems arose. She—let’s call her Froggy—was a vindictive person. Whenever a co-worker crossed her in any small way, she’d whine to her paramour—who I’ll call Cooky—and he would lower the boom on Froggy’s target, generally with little or no justification. To say office morale suffered would be an understatement. Sometimes justice is eventually served. Knocked-up Froggy demanded he divorce his wife and marry her. He did and both counts and they lived unhappily ever after, until they divorced.

Since Peyser uses avoiding receiving a gift you don’t want and which you’ll never forget as a prime excuse for screwing (literally) around the office, I thought people taking her advice had been contributing to The Big Apple’s rising syphilis rates and read the article. In summary, it says condom use—to the extent it can be monitored accurately—has remained constant and that the syphilis increase has occurred largely “with men who have sex with other men.” So, women are safer if they don’t have sex with men who have sex with men or with men who have sex with women who have sex with men who have sex with men, etc. Avoiding having sex with people from Chelsea is also recommended.

http://nypost.com/2015/02/12/i-dont-regret-my-office-romance-and-neither-should-you/