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Why We Love The Way We Do by Preeti Shenoy

★★☆☆☆

I chose this book because I wanted to read all of Preeti Shenoy’s books. Since I have already read couple of her books, I can say that this book doesn’t have her touch. It is a bunch of articles written for Financial Chronicles column Sex and The City. The books talks about various love — relationship issues. It is obvious that the author has spent a lot of time on researching for this book. This book let you know of various problems that exist in love relationships. As the book covers so many sections in so few pages, I think the author doesn’t have space to give in-depth explanations and solutions.


After reading few chapters, I thought I would pick the movies and books mentioned in this book and share. There are quite a number of mentions about songs, research papers, arts but they are little alien to me :) I don’t have any takeaway from this book apart from knowing there tons of issues exist.

Books

  1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  2. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  3. Cougar: A Guide for Older Women Dating Younger Men by Valerie Gibson
  4. What Do Women Want? by Daniel Bergner
  5. An Introduction to Communication Studies by Sheila Steinberg
  6. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families by R. Stephen Covey
  7. Reflections: Life After the White House by Barbara Bush
  8. 5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great by Terri L. Orbuch
  9. Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan ,‎ Cacilda Jetha
  10. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by David Herbert Lawrence
  11. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  12. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  13. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James

Movies

  1. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  2. Omkara
  3. Inferno
  4. Queen
  5. Just Friends
  6. The Shawshank Redemption
  7. Love Actually
  8. The Moon Is Blue
  9. Hall Pass
  10. Cheeni Kum
  11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  12. Raanjhanaa
  13. The Wolf of Wall Street
  14. Kate & Leopold
  15. No Strings Attached
  16. Finding Fanny
  17. Wedding Crashers
  18. What If
I am sure I am not going to pick anything from this list ;)
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