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BOOK REVIEW
Bad advice is in the air
Chocano presents overdone approach to romantic relationships
“DO YOU LOVE ME OR AM I
JUST PARANOID?”
Carina Chocano
★ out of ☆☆☆tfrir
BY COREY GARRIOTT
THE GAMECOCK
Forget asking your mom for
love advice; now the world has
Carina Chocano. She is so wise -
or so she would have you think.
“What is love, anyway,” she asks,
“aside from a liquor-fueled period
of psychosis?”
You can’t find this kind of dead
on, hammer-on-head observation
anywhere - except, of course, in
Chocano’s magnum opus, “Do
You Love Me, or Am I Just
Paranoid?”
None of her advice is cliched in
the very, very least. A quick stroll
through her book reveals that,
stunningly, relationships are a se
ries oi
compro
mises.
One com
promise
you
shouldn’t
make,
however:
Don’t date
egotistical
people or
drummers.
Also, avoid reading too much
into situations; or, as Chocano
sarcastically and succinctly puts
it, “Overthinking is a great way
to turn a nonrelationship into a
long, drawn-out, unrequited at
tachment with serious dramatic
potential.” That’s sarcasm, if you
iorgot.
And
it’s all
just so
dam
funny. If
your gut
is 1
telling ]
you to ]
run
away, I
she writes, “pretend not to speak i
gut.” j
“Thinking is the spice of life,” ]
she jokes. “Without thoughts, we
might be reduced to spending our
days mechanically accomplishing
Thinking is the spice of life.
Without thoughts, we might
be reduced to spending our days
mechanically accomplishing
things without taking time to
obsess about the roses. ”
CARINA CHOCANO
AUTHOR OF "DO YOU LOVE ME OR AM I JUST PARANOID?'
:hings without taking
:ime to obsess about
he roses.”
Believe it or not,
:hese nuggets of
vorld-weary wisdom
:ome from a mere 30
something years of ex
jerience.
Right. Obviously,
Hhocano thinks she’s
unny. The eye
•olling-to-word ratio
s very high after 150
orgettable pages
hock full of inside
okes for those in her
mow.
For instance, if suf
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