Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid by Howard J. Morris & Jenny Lee
Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid by Haward J. Morris and Jenny Lee is the revealing, RIP-roaringly funny guide to making every relationship smarter, saner and happier.
Since the dawn of time, when the first smitten caveboy tried to woo the object of his affections by shoving her into the mud, men have demonstrated that when it comes to women, they are profoundly stupid. And when it comes to men, women — no matter how intelligent or mature — are completely crazy.
Based on this simple yet groundbreaking insight, comedy writers and real-life couple Howard J. Morris and Jenny Lee have devised a relationship guide that is refreshingly honest, completely hilarious, and surprisingly practical. Using their own crazy/stupid romance as an example of these forces in action, they set out to explain why women ask questions that they absolutely do not want answered — and why men persist in answering them. What are men really thinking — or crucially, not thinking? Why do women view even the most mundane events through an emotional prism? Why do guys suck at being romantic? And why does every conversation with a woman lead back to whether or not she’s fat?
Using wit, hard-earned wisdom, and a highly entertaining he said/she said format, the authors explore the surprising method to his dumbness and the valid reasons behind her insanity, while providing real solutions to perennial relationship problems. By teaching men how and why they’re stupid around women and showing women how to “control the crazy” for everybody’s sake, Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid helps couples to reach the place where giving isn’t giving in, needing isn’t needy, and where the sexes can break the dysfunctional patterns and find away to live lovingly, happily ever after.
About the Authors
Howard J. Morris began his career in television, writing for the revolutionary HBO series Dream On, and then on the Emmy-nominated Home Improvement. He created the series, Holding the Baby and In Case of Emergency. He’s also written on My Wife and Kids, According to Jim, and most recently, The Starter Wife.
Jenny Lee was a writer on the hit comedy series Samantha Who?, starring Christina Applegate. And a writer on the Nickelodeon show, The Troop. She is also the author of three books of humor essays: Skinny Bitching, What Wendell Wants, and I Do. I Did. Now What?!: Life After the Wedding Dress. They live together in Los Angeles.
Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American crime writer. His most famous works were the Spenser novels, which were the starting point for a television series, Spenser: For Hire, on the ABC network during the late 1980s. His works incorporate considerable knowledge about the Boston metropolitan area. Parker died at his desk in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 18, 2010.
Biography
Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Parker married Joan H. Parker on August 26, 1956, whom he claims to have met as a toddler at a birthday party. (They spent their childhoods in the same neighborhood.)
Parker and his wife had two sons, David and Daniel. Originally, Parker’s character Spenser was to have the first name “David”, but he didn’t want to omit his other son. So Parker removed the first name completely and to this day, Spenser’s first name remains unknown and rarely referred to.
After earning a BA degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, Parker served in the US Army in Korea. In 1957, he earned his Master’s degree in English literature from Boston University and then worked in advertising and technical writing until 1962. Parker received a PhD degree in English literature from Boston University in 1971. His dissertation, titled “The Violent Hero, Wilderness Heritage and Urban Reality”, discussed the exploits of fictional private-eye heroes created by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald.
Parker wrote his first novel in 1971 while at Northeastern University. He became a full professor in 1976, and turned to full-time writing in 1979 with five Spenser novels to his credit.
Career
Parker and his wife created an independent film company called Pearl Productions, based in Boston. It is named after their German short-haired pointer, Pearl.
Parker created female detective Sunny Randall at the request of actress Helen Hunt, who wanted him to write a part for her to play. He wrote the first book, and the film version was planned for 2000, but never materialized. However, his publisher liked the character and asked him to continue with the series.
According to critic Christina Nunez, Parker’s “inclusion of [characters of] other races and sexual persuasions” lends his writings a “more modern feel”. For example, the Spenser series characters include Hawk and Chollo, African-American and Mexican-American, respectively, as well as Russians, Ukrainians, Chinese, a gay cop, Lee Farrell, and even a gay mob boss, Gino Fish. The open homosexuality of both his sons gives his writing “[a] sensibility,” Ms. Nunez feels, “[which] strengthens Parker’s sensibility [toward gays].”
Aside from crime writing, Parker also produced several Western novels, including Appaloosa, and children’s books. In 1994 he collaborated with Japanese photographer Kasho Kumagai on a coffee table book called Spenser’s Boston, exploring the city through Spenser’s “eyes” via high quality, 4-color photos. In addition to Parker’s introduction, excerpts from several of the Spenser novels were included.
Note that there is another Robert B. Parker (1905-55) whose mystery novels of the 1950s are being reprinted by Hard Case Crime.
Awards
Parker received three nominations and two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. He received the first award, the “Best Novel Award” in 1977, for the fourth novel in the Spenser series, Promised Land. In 1990 he shared, with wife Joan, a nomination for “Best Television Episode” for the TV series B.L. Stryker; however, the award went to David J. Burke and Alfonse Ruggiero Jr. for Wiseguy.
In 2002 he received the Grand Master Award Edgar for his collective oeuvre.
In 2008 he was awarded the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award.
LEIL LOWNDES is an internationally acclaimed writer, motivational speaker, and corporate trainer. She has spoken, consulted, and conducted training programs in every major city in the US and many abroad. Leil has written 7 books and 6 audio programs on all types of interpersonal communicating. Her books have been translated into 18 languages, and she has received testimonials from dozens of top communicators.
Leil’s teen-age bouts with shyness explain the passion she brings to her subject. Her later experiences as a starring Broadway actress explain her electrifying presentation. Her extensive training in Psychology explains her rare insights. Her twelve years of conducting corporate training programs and her profound knowledge of interpersonal communicating explain her company’s impressive track record. As president of Applause, Ltd., Leil has clients in a wide range of industries: The Walt Disney Company, Kodak, Dale Carnegie, AmerUS Insurance, Sales & Marketing Council, Young Presidents Organization, Keds Shoes, Folger Coffee, Mattel Toys, L’eggs Hosiery, the government of Bermuda and the U.S. Peace Corps to name only a few. In addition to engrossing audiences on hundreds of TV and radio shows, Leil’s work has been acclaimed by The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and Time Magazine.
Today, as I scrolled down my personal facebook page, many of my friends made mention of J.D. Salinger, who passed away just over a day ago (on 27th Jan). Sometimes some smaller-time author dies and no one notices. So, who is J.D. Salinger then, whose death tucks at the heart-strings of so many readers, young and old?
Salinger is best known for the 1951 classic, Catcher in the Rye. The novel plots about 17-year-old Holden’s experiences in NY City following his expulsion from an elite prep school. He is both an insightful yet unreliable narrator who expounds on the importance of loyalty, the “phoniness” of adulthood, and his own duplicity. In a 1953 interview with a high-school newspaper, Salinger admitted that the novel was “sort of” autobiographical.
The New York Times’s hailing of Catcher as “an unusually brilliant first novel” while other criticize the book’s monotonous language and the “immorality and perversion” of Holden, who used religious slurs and freely discusses casual sex and prostitution. The novel was a popular success and within 2 months of its publication, it had been reprinted 8 times. It spent 30 weeks on the NY Times Bestseller list. The book remains widely read; as of 2004, the total worldwide sales tipped over 65 million copies.
In 1953, Salinger published a collection of 7 stories from The New Yorker. The collection was published asNine Stories in the United States, and For Esmé – with Loveand Squalor in the UK. The book received grudgingly positive reviews, and was a financial success. It spent 3 months on the NY Times Bestseller list
I almost had tears in my eyes when I was reading about the struggles Salinger had to go through before his work was published. I guess in a nutshell, I do respect Salinger for his perseverance. That despite everything, he never gave up doing what he loved to do – writing. Reading on further, I wondered though, if he ever found true peace. His life seemed to have been peppered by so many different beliefs that whatever he did , was usually out of the ordinary, and a little repulsive, to me as an outsider. It seemed he chose to live a lonesome life. Ironically, even in death, Salinger won’t be alone. He has us to contend with in our memories.
In London, Tuesdau. 26th January 2010, the Overall Winner was announed and the award goes to ….. poet Christopher Reid for A Scattering, a compilation of poems dedicated to his late wife, Lucinda Gane. Along with the award, Reid won £30,000.
Christopher Reid was born in Hong Kong in 1949 and now lives in London. He studied at Oxford before becoming a journalist and book reviewer. He was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber from 1991 to 1999, and Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Hull from 2007 to 2009. He also runs his own independent publishing house, Ondt and Gracehoper, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Reid’s poetry collections include Arcadia (1979), which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden prize, Katerina Brac (1985) and All Sorts, his first book of poems for children, which won the Signal Poetry Award in 2000. A Scattering and The Song of Lunch were both published in 2009. A Scattering has also been nominated for Britain’s Forward Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. His edition of Letters of Ted Hughes, published in 2007, was recently released in paperback.
If you’re like the average Malaysian, you’ll probably worry a whole lot about your finances. And you’ll be asking yourself these nagging questions all the time:
Will I have enough money for retirement?
Will I have enough to send my kids to a good university?
Will I be able to take that dream vacation every year without fail?
Will I be able to pay for that critical medical operation in my golden years?
Now, with the Roadmap to Financial Freedom, you can find all the answers to these questions. By reading on, you can gain insights into how to craft your own personal path to financial freedom by answering the two key questions: What do I want financially? And what do I need to do to get there?
In this book, Yap Ming Hui shows you just how the Roadmap to Financial Freedomhas helped 12 average Malaysian families – from young couples managing their daily finances to senior citizens desiring retirement – achieve their financial freedom dreams. Written in plain simple English, this is one book you cannot afford to be without if you want to optimise your financial wellbeing and achieve true peace of mind.
You may wonder if you can achieve financial freedom with an average income and average assets. The answer is – ‘Yes, you can’. Unlike other books written by Yap Ming Hui, Roadmap to Financial Freedom is targeted at helping each individual or family achieve financial freedom. In fact, it is a financial freedom book written by a Malaysian for Malaysians. The ideas and information in this book can be readily and easily applied right here, right now in Malaysia.
If you want to be wealthy and happy, this is the book for you. After all isn’t happiness the genuine currency of financial freedom?
In his professional capacity, Yap Ming Hui is the Chief Financial Coach of Whitman Independent Advisors Sdn Bhd (www.whitman.com.my), a comprehensive fee-for-service financial planning company which specialises in helping clients to achieve financial freedom by optimising their wealth. His clients include some of the major owners of public-listed companies on Bursa Malaysia, multi-national corporations and successful small-and-medium enterprise companies. Yap Ming Hui has now decided to adapt his wealth management solutions to feed the needs of all Malaysians. That new solution is showcased in this latest book that delivers Yap Ming Hui’s unique brand of holistic wealth management.
Interview with Yap Ming Hui
Catch Yap Ming Hui’s Choosing A Financial Planner with Yap Ming Hui, Wealth COO, Author & MD – Whitman Independent Advisors on BFM 89.9 – The Business Station.
Refinancing Now (Pembiayaan Semula) is a book about ideas that will save you money on your properties. This book will help you understand your current home loan and consider a new financial package for its advantages. It is also a lifestyle cum property investment book that contains simple calculations to compare different types of loans and help you make sure you have the loan that best suits you. This is what every homeowner should know about their home loans before meeting their bankers or mortage brokers. (Extracted from the back cover of the the book)
Thanks to the authors of these books, we now have 5 (of each versions) to give away.
Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths discuss first-hand how they cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme
No One Would Listen is the exclusive story of the Harry Markopolos-lead investigation into Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. While a lot has been written about Madoff’s scam, few actually know how Markopolos and his team-affectionately called “The Fox Hounds” by Markopolos himself, uncovered what Madoff was doing years before this financial disaster reached its pinnacle. Unfortunately, no one listened, until the damage of the world’s largest financial fraud ever was irreversible.
Since that time, Markopolos openly has testified and questioned the enforcement and fraud investigation capabilities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), shared a sliver of this page-turning story with 60 Minutes, and become perhaps the world’s most visible and insightful whistleblower on fraud and conflicts of interest in financial markets.
Throughout the book, Markopolos and his Fox Hounds tell their first-hand story of investigating Madoff—with the help of bestselling author David Fisher. They explain how they discovered the fraud, and then how they provided credible and detailed evidence to major newspapers and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) many times between 2000 and 2008, only to have his warnings ignored repeatedly by the SEC.
Provides a firsthand account of how Markopolos uncovered Madoff’s scam years before it actually fell apart
Discusses how the SEC missed the red flags raised by Markopolos
Describes how Madoff was enabled by investors and fiduciaries alike
The only book to tell the story of Madoff’s scam and the SEC’s failings by those who saw both first hand
Despite repeated written and verbal warnings to the SEC by Harry Markopolos, Bernie Madoff was allowed to continue his operations. No One Would Listen paints a vivid portrait of Markopolos and his determined team of financial sleuths, and what impact they will have on financial markets and financial regulation for decades to come.
Harry Markopolos
Harry Markopoulos (born October 22, 1956 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is a former securities industry executive turned independent financial fraud investigator for institutional investors and others seeking forensic accounting expertise. He has risen to prominence as an early and unheeded whistleblower of suspected securities fraud by Bernard Madoff, tipping off the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) repeatedly both orally and in writing starting in 1999, when he argued that it was not legally possible for Madoff to deliver the returns he had claimed to deliver.
Markopolos graduated from Cathedral Preparatory School in 1974. He received an undergraduate degree from Loyola College in Maryland in 1981 and an M.S. in finance from Boston College in 1997. In May 1978 he received a reserve commission as a 2nd Lieutenant, Infantry, in the US Army from Loyola College ROTC. Mr. Markopolos is a graduate of several Army post-graduate schools including Infantry Officer’s Basic and Advanced Courses, the Civil Affairs Officers Advanced Course and US Army Command & General Staff College. Mr. Markopolos has commanded troops at every rank from 2nd Lieutenant to Major during 17 years of part-time reserve component service in the Army National Guard and Army Reserve. He left the Army Reserve in April 1995 to apply for and enter graduate school at Boston College the following September. He worked at Boston-based Rampart Investment Management Co. from 1991 through 2004, ultimately becoming its chief investment officer, and is a past president of Boston Security Analysts Society Inc. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He now works, with a certain degree of anonymity, as a forensic accounting analyst for attorneys who sue companies under the False Claims Act and other statutes, focusing on tips which lead to continuing investigations into medical billing, Internal Revenue Service, and United States Department of Defense frauds, where a whistleblower would be compensated.
On February 11, 2009, the Boston Security Analysts Society honored him with a silver whistle in recognition of his efforts in calling attention to money manager Bernard Madoff.
Worst Case by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Worst Case by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Best case: survival
The son of one of New York’s wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can’t save him, because this kidnapper isn’t demanding money. Instead, he quizzes his prisoner on the price others pay for his life of luxury. In this exam, wrong answers are fatal.
Worst case: death
Detective Michael Bennett leads the investigation. With ten kids of his own, he can’t begin to understand what could lead someone to target anyone’s children. As another student disappears, one powerful family after another uses their leverage and connections to turn the heat up on the mayor, the press–anyone who will listen–to stop this killer. Their reach extends all the way to the FBI, who send their top Abduction Specialist, Agent Emily Parker. Bennett’s life–and love life–suddenly get even more complicated.
This case: Detective Michael Bennett is on it
Before Bennett has a chance to protest the FBI’s intrusion on his case, the mastermind changes his routine. His plan leads up to the most devastating demonstration yet–one that could bring cataclysmic devastation to every inch of New York. From the shocking first page to the last exhilarating scene, Worst Case is a non-stop thriller from “America’s #1 storyteller” (Forbes).
The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body—and the shattered souls of all who were present.
Years later, one man attempts to understand what happened to his wife and to his friends by writing a book about this horrible night, and it’s through this process that they begin to examine the unspeakable events that have bound them in ways they cannot fathom, but that have haunted every one of them through their lives. As each of the old friends tries to come to grips with the darkness of the past, they find themselves face-to-face with the evil triggered so many years earlier. Unfolding through the individual stories of the fated group’s members, A Dark Matteris an electric, chilling, and unpredictable novel that will satisfy Peter Straub’s many ardent fans, and win him legions more.
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world—no matter how out of place they feel.
Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew—a reclusive, real-life gentle giant—she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes.
Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson’s cakes—which is a good thing, because Julia can’t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she’s hurt in the past?
Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in.
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
From Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths—separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.
Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacy are over—and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who’d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces’ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets.
Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What of the vicar’s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then there’s a German pilot obsessed with the Brontë sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porson’s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve—without Flavia’s help. But in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in wayover her head?
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries now gives us an electrifying stand-alone thriller that takes off into a sweeping international drama.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the murders. But when Birgitta discovers the diary of another Andrén – a gang master on the American transcontinental railway in the nineteenth century – that describes the cruel treatment of Chinese slave-workers, she is determined to uncover what she suspects is a more complicated truth.
The investigation leads to modern-day Beijing and its highest echelons of power, to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years, into a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjövallen murders.
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