Please help me melt his heart ❤️

[Heybearu]

So having had a really not great time on online dating...I've finally started to speak with someone I would like to impress. Ladies he sings, he bakes bread, he reads he's the main parent. I'm in heaven.
Id like to give him a book at our first date....he likes most genres...nothing like super seedy tho as he's quite wholesome...what can I give him that will melt his heart so I get to keep him forever?
Or at last so he looks back and thinks that was cool.
Help please x

This. I gave my now DP a link to cabin pressure and told him to listen to episode 1 and if he didn’t like it to forget it 🤣happy to say by 3 months in he knew all the episodes and was playing the travelling lemon and yellow car!

Wuthering Heights book.

The end of Patriarchy - radical feminism for men

You might not even fancy him in real life.

Matt Haig books are really popular.

I once ordered 'Reasons to Stay Alive' on my kindle, forgot it was linked to DH Amazon account, and had him in a total flap worrying about me! So maybe don't give him that one 🙈

I only bought it because I suffer with bad anxiety and it was recommended to me!

Agree with others that you’re putting a lot of pressure on someone you’ve never met. So what if he bakes bread? Plenty of weirdos do.

I truly hope you’re as enamoured with him once you’ve met and dated for a bit, but it’s too early for books I think.

How long have you been talking online?

He sings, he bakes bread, he reads
Get him Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov. He'll love it I bet.

I thought this was going to be about a puppy. 🐕

My DH gave me Perfume to read when we first met….couldn’t get into it at all and really felt under pressure to read it. Obviously not enough to be an issue as I married him anyway.

With all due respect I'd take a long deep breath before jumping in with both feet.
You dont know him yet.
Act in haste repent at leisure is seen all over Mumsnet threads.
Cool and friendly, because its your FIRST date!
And even if he isnt a manipulator doing the hard sell, you could very well frighten him off if you're overeager.

😂😂😂

Wasn’t it Kurt cobain’s fave book?

@Conniebygaslight He gave you a book about a serialkiller on your first date?
I can see why your name is Conniebygaslight...😂Freud would have a field day

Ahhh, you want to use the book recs of all these mumsnetters to trick him into thinking you’re someone who reads books?

Because if it was anything other than that you’d already have a book in mind that you love that would have driven this entire gesture.

Maybe this guy actually deserves someone who isn’t faking their personality.

For the rape and public stonings? 🧐
(if I remember correctly)

That's quite a freaky behaviour. I really would not want something to take home from a first date.

Love this book, a winner

@WhoOfWhoville What a stupidly malicious post

The best book I read recently (perhaps ever) is Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver

You Are Here by David Nicholls

It’s about suicide! Definitely not that!

Give him a book you love. Although I think giving a book to someone on a first date is a bit intense!

House of Leaves. Come at him with a wildcard.

Omg
Bullshit anntanae ! Definitely need these

Really?

The OP might as well just go and choose one of the top 10 best sellers in Waterstones for all the value in this gesture of a book she hasn’t actually read, but is meant to “melt his heart”.

I doubt his heart will melt at her ability to order a £7.99 book off Amazon.