Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man - Steve Harvey

If you're familiar with Steve Harvey, perhaps you'll expect this to be a comical spin on male-female relationships. At least that's what I thought. I was wrong. Kind of.

Between the front and back covers of this book are Harvey's beliefs as to why women don't receive what they want and need from the men in their lives and why men get by with behaving badly. He breaks the book into three parts: The Mind-Set of a Man, Why Men Do What They Do, and The Playbook: How to Win the Game. Harvey is serious about imparting information and (in his words) empowering women, but he also keeps it light and entertaining. Enough so that I - an old married gal with a misconception from the onset - thoroughly enjoyed the book (and completed it in 2 settings).

That is not to say that I agreed with Harvey 100%. Overall, though, I give the man his due. He doles out responsibility and chastises each gender where appropriate and pulls no punches in separating the boys from the men. If you're over the age of 30, you've witnessed (if not experienced) at least some of Harvey's observations and can appreciate the idiocy and shortcomings of our human nature.