MORE DATES FROM HELL: True Stories From...

MORE DATES FROM HELL: True Stories From Survivors by Katherine Ann Samon (Plume: $8.95; 231 pp., paperback original). Samon has compiled a second volume of silly but amusing accounts of disastrous social encounters: The man who cleaned the kitchen floor tile by tile before fixing dinner; the mousy woman whose hobby turned out to be heckling stand-up comics; the man who believed that a werewolf prowled near his trailer; the woman whose cigarette set fire to the curtains when she was taken to meet her date’s mother. These romantic misadventures make staying home on a Saturday night seem like a pleasant prospect.