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What Makes Women Happy

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Funny. True.

Years ago my Mom explained behavior coming down to basic biology. At 46 I really understand that she was correct. Fay Weldon is so funny and so true in this book. Sometimes our behavior is dictated by nature, sometimes by nurture.

Plan to give this book as a Christmas present to my best women friends.

this book had an interesting premise and I did finish it, but often I found myself hating the book and truly questioning the brain function of the author. Some of the major disconnects could have been societal as the author is English and I am American. If so, it did not translate.

As there is no table of content here on Amazon, I would like to take the priviledge to type one for you here.

Part One: Sources of Happiness
Sex
Food
Friends
Family
Shopping
Chocolate

Part Two: Saints and Sinners
Death: The Gates of Paradise
Bereavement: Unseating the Second Horseman
Loneliness: Unseating the Third Horseman
Sahme: Unseating the Fourth Horseman
Something Here Inside

First of all, I must confess that I picked and read the book in order to learn how to woo girls. Pardon my disappointment of finding it more a collection of advice from a learned and mature female love fiction author for female than a tool book for men. Even worse, as a lover of self help books and love stories (yes, I do read a lot of love stories, and of course, to woo girls), I like none of her writing style, self help advice nor stories adopted to illustrate her opinion. I am afraid that only her fans are receptive to it. In short, not recommended.