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Book Reviews & Giveaway: Women are Crazy, Men are Stupid

Authors: Howard J. Morris and Jenny Lee
Since Howard Morris is a comedy writer with numerous credits (Home Improvement, My Wife and Kids, According to Tim, The Starter Wife) and Jenny Lee is a comedy writer (Samantha Who, The Troop), I expected — a great hysterical book.  Hmmmm.  Don’t get me wrong.  I loved the banter style of these two live in partners – (Broad Z will step in here, I just know it!  Go away Broad Z!).  I also like the premise – how relationships go wrong and how to make them go right.   Men and women live in between two different languages.  Women ride the daily current of feelings – we call our girlfriends to vent, we talk to our dogs to vent, we scratch the cat  – and vent our feelings.  Men, on the other hand seem (can’t say for sure, a guy I am not!) to DO – to solve, to fix, to watch adventures (SUPER BOWL SUNDAY) and relate to each other in these ways.  Guy to guy.  You know guys back me up here!  You never hear a man say, “Hey sweetie pie, how is our relationship going?  Don’t you like the nuance of this steak tartar?  But really, do you think I am manly?”
“Women are Crazy and Men are Stupid” have caught this dynamic and stopped it in its tracks.  Freeze frame Jenny and Howard:  Howard writes a chapter Jenny responds.  Human to a fault, we laugh as we see ourselves in their dance of love.  Their choreography is our choreography. 
Yes, as Howard and Jenny attest in their book, women are over reactive emotionally when the hidden agenda is always “Do you love me enough?  Can you give me attention instead of the football game?  Hello, I’m right here while you are guzzling that beer?  Hello Hello!”  And men just don’t get it, and say all the wrong things “But it’s the SUPERBOWL!~”   Morris and Lee’s banters are funny and witty.  Occasionally, I found an entire book of banters about the same things repetitive.  UMMM, that said….
There are moments in this book that are truly great.  The chapter on empathy – when Jenny agrees that men and women ARE different and that women can be stupendously overemotional over seemingly nothing to men (my hand is up, I am waving, I am waving, Jenny) hits home.  And yet how hard both sexes try to give each other what we really need – space and closeness, love and tolerance.  Morris chimes in again and again with “but men just don’t get it – they don’t understand the emotional agenda that’s behind the scenes of every relationship conversation”.  This is definitely a book worth reading, with many AH HA (and ha ha) moments. 
And of course, being a woman, I related a little more to Jenny’s side (well, she made sense to me!).  I also loved Morris’ take on the GUY side.  So all in all, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read about serious relationship things with a lot of humor and good will.  A good read.

Ratings are based on a 5-star scale

Presentation: 4
Overall: 4
Book Review by Broad “A” – Ava



Thank you to FSB Associates and Simon Spotlight Entertainment for providing a copy for this book review as well as this giveaway. We were in no way compensated and all opinions are strictly our own.
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