Animal Husbandry
by Laura Zigman

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Light or superficial? -- You decide.
Summary: 3 Stars

So the premise for this talky, entertaining, yet light and superficial "novel" is wrong. Oops. Women are not the true blue, right thinking folks, with those bad men being the ones we must figure out -- Why, oh why, the author asks, do these men love and leave women?

It's funny she does not consider that it is women who are so concerned with relationships, it is woman's magazines that are, from cover to cover, concerned with attracting and enticing men. It's women who talk about relationships so much, are a bit more objective, are less likely to be drawn into a carefully constructed seduction. And then hurt later. That's what the careful university studies find, again and again -- that most often it is the woman who decides to break up, and that most often the man takes longer to get over a break up (no wonder). But is that what the author finds?

Nope. The author's view is that women are the good guys. The book is an examination of why those darn men might get into a three month relationship and then decide to break up and break a heart. Forget about those Harvard studies that show it's men who take longer to get over a relationship breakup. For all the "research" that is salted throughout the book, we end up with a one-sided view of why those bad men just keep leaving women. Darn those bad men.

Guess what? In reality there's a small percentage of men (and women!), who find it very easy to attract members of the opposite sex, and who do just that. They have fun in their teens and twenties and maybe beyond, dating and seducing the rest of us and, yes, loving and leaving us. And breaking some hearts.

That's about it.

It's got nothing to do with men having a monopoly on this behavior. And it doesn't have much to do with cows, either.

The authors goofy theories about cows and other animals have nothing to do with what is really going on, but if you want to have some light fun reading a little diary about a young woman with a job in New York who had a fling, fell in love, got dumped, and went through a bunch of kinda nutty thinking about why it all happened, have a little fun.

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