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Women's Stuff (2000)

by Kaz Cooke(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 1

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review 1: You can't say this book isn't comprehensive. Most areas of life that a woman between 9 and 109 might go through are touched on. Kaz Cooke has done her research and comes out with sensible advice and further information sources. However I'm glad I borrowed it from the library rather than buying it. I would hate to say at 29 that I know everything about life! but a lot of it was nothing knew to me. I only read the sections that applied / were interesting to me, so I guess that meant they were things I'd already done my own research on anyway. I think I would have got a lot more out of this book a decade ago, so I suspect it would make a great gift say for mothers/aunties/grandmothers to give to teenage girls who might be leaving home, starting uni, or generally beginning imp... moreortant new stages in life. I guess also for women who lack female friends/relatives who can share their wisdom and experience. I'm fortunate enough to have many women in my life (friends, sisters, mother, aunties, work colleagues) from whom I learn the most about life and love and all those things. Just another minor thing - I also found there to be just too many comments and anecdotes from other women. I know Kaz was trying to cover a range of different viewpoints but maybe this could have been done through charts and graphs of responses to yes/no or multichoice questions. In the end I just didn't read the comments because there were too many and I just wanted to get to the actual information.
review 2: Overall I liked this book. It had lots of interesting things, but I felt quite a bit was missing and there wasn't enough on everything. I felt some sections were too 'jokey' and she could've made them a bit more serious even though she is a comedic author. I would've like to have seen sections on different sorts of addictions other the 'standard' ones and also on other sorts of mental illnesses and phobias and also sections of over-sleeping, internet bullying and some other things like healing from traumatic events from childhood and anything traumatic you've experienced. Even though the book was a lot in it, there's quite a bit missing and not much on some things. What about petty things like envy and being more creative and also not being liked for being yourself by anyone? Or perhaps a section on social phobia? I felt like so much of it could've been covered more seriously. I liked the book, but I wouldn't use it much as a reference. Still recommend to others though, as it's interesting for what it does have. less

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